kuk Uhlan regiment "Kaiser" No. 4

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The last regimental owner, Emperor Franz Joseph I.

The kuk Uhlan regiment "Kaiser" No. 4 was a cavalry unit in the Joint Army within the Austro-Hungarian Land Forces .

In 1915, all honorary names were deleted without replacement. From then on the association was only called "kuk Uhlan Regiment No. 4" (However, this could not be enforced in common parlance, on the one hand because no one adhered to it, on the other hand the thrifty kuk military administration had ordered that all existing stamps and forms be used up first.)

  • The regiment possessed a golden holder's anniversary medal, which was awarded by the highest order of November 30, 1898, to be worn on a silver trumpet of honor. On the obverse it showed the relief portrait of the emperor in the owner's uniform, the inscription "Franz Joseph I:" and the shield of the highest coat of arms with a crown. The reverse contained the dedication: "The owner of his Uhlanenregiment No. 4, 1848 - 1898". The trumpet of honor was decorated with gold in relief and with an embroidered curtain made of gold fabric.

Formation history

  • 1813/1814 of the Galician was the country stands at the rendezvous Gródek into eastern Galicia Lancers - Regiment set up. The tribe consisted of batches and men from the remaining three Uhlan regiments. (Some officers also came from the Chevauxlegers Regiment O'Reilly and the Hussar Regiment Kienmayer)
  • In 1860 the 4th Division had to be surrendered to supplement the previously Lombard Uhlan Regiment No. 11.

additions

  • Since its establishment, the regiment has been recruited from Galicia , initially only from Eastern Galicia.
  • 1853 From the district of Infantry Regiment No. 15 ( Tarnopol )
  • 1857 From the supplementary districts of infantry regiments No. 30 and No. 15 ( Lemberg and Tarnopol)
  • 1860 from the supplementary districts of infantry regiments No. 30 and No. 55 (Lemberg and Brezezany )
  • 1867 from supplementary districts of infantry regiments No. 30 and No. 80 (Lemberg and Zloczów )
  • 1875–80 From the district of the 80th Infantry Regiment
  • 1883–89 From the district of Infantry Regiment No. 30.
  • Then with the addition of the area of ​​the XI. Corps (Military Territorial District Lviv) assigned.

Peace garrisons

I. II. III.

Regimental owner

Second owner

  • 1813–41 General of the cavalry Johann Graf Klebelsberg, Baron zu Thumburg
  • 1841–57 Field Marshal Lieutenant Felix Graf von Woyna
  • 1857–85 Lieutenant Field Marshal Alfred Graf Paar

Regimental commanders

  • 1813 Colonel Stanislaus von Poradowski
  • 1815 Colonel Joseph von Devay
  • 1820 Colonel Eugene Count Wratislaw
  • 1830 Colonel Leopold Graf Spannocchi
  • 1835 Colonel Carl Freiherr Pergler von Perglas
  • 1843 Colonel Carl von Grawert
  • 1848 Colonel Carl Freiherr Zessner von Spitzenberg
  • 1849 Colonel Joseph Count Castelnau
  • 1852 Colonel Leopold Graf Stürgkh
  • 1853 Colonel Julius Graf Hoditz and Wolframitz
  • 1856 Colonel Eugen Freiherr Piret de Bihain
  • 1862 Colonel Leopold Fischer
  • 1863 Colonel Johann Freiherr von Appel
  • 1866 Colonel Otto Freiherr von Scholley
  • 1871 Colonel Heinrich Graf Herberstein
  • 1877 Colonel Heinrich von Nauendorf
  • 1882 Colonel Peter Stoits
  • 1886 Colonel Joseph Bergauer
  • 1888 Colonel Adalbert Graf Gilitzstein
  • 1894 Colonel Ernst von Poten
  • 1899 Colonel Gottfried von Suchan
  • 1905 Colonel Alfred Ambros Edler von Rechtenberg
  • 1907 Colonel Edmund Ritter von Zaremba
  • 1912 Colonel Severin Zietkiewicz
  • 1913 Colonel Wilhelm Heyszl
  • 1914 Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig Redlich

Battle calendar

Memorial plaque in the Capuchin Church in Vienna

Rule of the Hundred Days

  • 1815: Detached to the army on the Upper Rhine . In the battle near Strasbourg in reserve. No combat activity.

Risorgimento

  • 1821: Involved in the Piedmont campaign without any combat activity.

Revolution of 1848/49 in the Austrian Empire

  • 1848: In Lombardy . When the revolution broke out, three squadrons under Colonel Grawert were only able to escape from rebellious Cremona by force of arms . Later five squadrons were detached to the I. Corps of the main army, one squadron belonged to the garrison of Mantua, two squadrons were assigned to the reserve in Corps Nugent. Parts of the former fought in the battles at Santa Lucia , Curtatone, Sommacampagna, the Battle of Custozza and the Gecht near Volta.
  • 1849: In Italy without combat activity. Relocation of the regiment to Hungary. Fighting of the two major divisions in the battle near Csorna , the Lieutenant Colonel Division led a battle near Pered (Tešedíkovo). The regiment was then concentrated in I. Corps Schlick and fought near Raab , Ács (Hungary), Pusztaherkály, Szöreg, Csatád and Temesvár and took part in the persecution of the insurgents to the Transylvanian border.

Sardinian war

  • 1859: Relocated to Italy in June, two divisions were on the lower Po , the other two in the XI. Corps. Only a 1/2 squadron was used in the battle of Solferino .

German war

First World War

During the First World War, the Uhlans fought initially as cavalry (whether in regiments or as a squadron division as divisional cavalry is currently unknown) but also as infantry on all theaters of war in the east and south-east. The units of the 4th Cavalry Troop Division remained mounted until the end.

Whereabouts

After Poland was proclaimed an independent state in October 1918, the soldiers of Ruthenia and Poland were called upon by the interim government to stop fighting and return home. As a rule, this request was followed. Most of the Ruthenian soldiers also returned to their homeland without waiting for the unit to disband. Thus the association was withdrawn from its previous high command, the Austro-Hungarian War Ministry, and could not be demobilized by the latter and, at best, theoretically dissolved. It is currently not known whether, when and where such a dissolution took place.

Status and association membership 1914

  • II Corps - 4th Cavalry Troop Division - 18th Cavalry Brigade
  • Nationalities: 65% Ruthenians - 29% Poles - 6% various
  • Regimental languages: Ukrainian and Polish

Adjustment

  • 1813: white czapka , dark green kurtka and trousers, scarlet equalization , yellow buttons
  • 1865: white tartare , light blue ulanka and trousers, madder red equalization, yellow buttons
  • 1868: white Tatarka, light blue ulanka, madder red boot pants and equalization, yellow buttons
  • 1876: white czapka, light blue ulanka, madder red leveling and boot pants, yellow buttons

structure

A regiment was the Austro-Hungarian cavalry usually originates from three to four (in the exception more) divisions . (A division was used here to refer to a battalion-strength unit. The correct division was called an infantry or cavalry division.) Each division had three squadrons , each of which consisted of two companies . The number of riders in the individual sub-units varied, but was usually around 160 riders per squadron.

(During the army reform begun by Emperor Joseph II , the company structure within the cavalry had already been abandoned.)

The individual divisions were named after their formal leaders:

  • the 1st division was the colonel division
  • the 2nd division was the lieutenant colonel (lieutenant colonel) division
  • the 3rd division was the majors division
  • the 4th division was the 2nd majors division

In the course of the army reform, the cavalry regiments were reduced to two divisions from 1860 onwards.

Footnotes

  1. according to “Announcement of the Quartermaster's Department” of Army Group Command FM. Archduke Eugen / Q.Op. No. 665/15. Issued by the field post office 512

literature

  • Obstlt. Alphons Frhr. v. Wrede: History of the KuK Wehrmacht from 1618 to the end of the XIX century Vienna 1898–1905.
  • Georg Schreiber : The emperor's cavalry. Austrian cavalry in 4 centuries. With a foreword by Alois Podhajsky . Speidel, Vienna 1967.
  • BM Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1999.
  • Allmayer-Beck / Lessing: The Austro-Hungarian Army 1848–1914. Bertelsmann, Munich 1974.
  • Osprey Military. Men-at-arms Series No. 329.