kuk Uhlan regiment "Kaiser Joseph II." No. 6

Archduke Joseph's Dragoon Regiment (DI) - contemporary Albertina manuscript from 1762, Heeresgeschichtliches Museum , Vienna .

as a Dragoon Regiment Archduke Joseph 1748–1765

The regiment owner 1748–1790 Archduke Joseph / Emperor Joseph II again became the namesake at the end of the 19th century

The regiment was a cavalry unit that was established in 1688 as a lion shield dragoons for the imperial Habsburg army . From this the kuk Uhlan regiment "Kaiser Joseph II." No. 6 developed in the course of time up to the Common Army .

When a ranking list of cavalry regiments was drawn up in 1769, the association was given the name Cavalry Regiment No. 1 . However, that was not the name of the regiment, as the regiments continued to be named after their respective owners (who did not have to be the commanders) until 1798 . There was no binding regulation of the spelling. (e.g. Count Serbelloni regiment - or Serbelloni regiment.) With each change of ownership, the regiment concerned changed its name.

After the system was changed in 1798, the numbered designation prevailed, which could possibly be linked to the name of the owner. The name was changed to Dragoon Regiment No. 1 .

The following numbering was subsequently introduced for the system: 1688/1 (to Ticino ), Dragoon Regiment DI (to Bleckwenn ).

In 1915 all honorary names of the regiments were deleted without replacement, from then on it was only to be called kuk Uhlan Regiment No. 6. However, this could not be enforced in common parlance, in particular the thrifty kuk military administration had ordered to use up all existing stamps and forms first.

Formation history

• According to a patent dated December 11, 1688 by Count Löwenschild set up in Silesia as the "Dragoon Regiment Löwenschild" .
• In 1700 parts of the dissolved regiments "Uhlenfeld" and "Glöckelsperg" were incorporated
• 1721 A company of the disbanded Dragoon Regiment "Veterani" incorporated
• In 1731 the regiment had to surrender part of the auction company established in 1727 to the "Vehlen" dragoon regiment.
• In 1765 the regiment was converted into a Chevauxlegers regiment. The previous grenadier company also became the Chevauxlégers company.
• From 1769 on, the association led the cavalry ranking number 1.
• In 1785, the regiment received a squadron from the Uhlan Division assigned to the Chevauxlegers Regiment Levenehr to set up a Uhlan Division and set up the 2nd Squadron itself. This division was handed over to the later 1st Uhlan Regiment in 1790/91.
• In 1798 the unit was converted to Dragoon Regiment (light) No. 1. However, this was reversed in 1802. It was assigned to the Colonel Division of the disbanded Dragoon Regiment "Coburg No. 6".
• In 1851 the regiment was converted into a Uhlan regiment and as such was given the number 6
• In 1860 it was assigned a division of the Uhlan Regiment Archduke Karl No. 3 to complete it.

additions

• 1781–1817 from Moravia
• 1817–52 from Upper and Lower Austria
• 1853 from the Lombard-Venetian Kingdom from the district of Infantry Regiment No. 26 ( Udine )
• from 1857 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 16 and No. 26 ( Treviso and Udine).
• From 1860 it was a Galician regiment and until 1867 it was complemented by the districts of infantry regiments No. 20 and No. 57 Neu-Sandez and Tarnów )
• 1867–83 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 20 and No. 13 (Neu Sandez and Krakow
• 1883–89 from the districts of infantry regiments No. 10, No. 45, No. 77 and No. 90 ( Przemyśl , Sanok , Sambor and Jaroslau ).
• Then the regiment was assigned to the area of ​​the I. Corps (Military Territorial District Krakow).

Garrisons

I.	II.	III.
1698 Brod 1701–03 Transylvania 1712-15 Kecskemét In 1718 all of Hungary 1726 Veszprém county 1731 Slavonia 1732 Moravia and Silesia 1733 Italy 1736–37 Hungary 1740–41 Vienna 1749 St. Georgen 1754–56 Bohemia 1763 Ödenburg 1768 St. Georgen 1772 Troppau 1775–78 Moravia 1779-92 Gaja 1798–99 Radkersburg 1801 Gaja	1802 Nikolsburg 1803 Troppau 1805 Leipnik 1806 Ried 1807 Eperies 1808-09 Gródek 1810-13 Gyöngyös 1814–15 Hungarian bread 1816 Verona 1817 Vicenza 1821 Naples 1825 Aversa 1829 Padua 1830 Milan 1833 Verona - Vicenza 1836 Radkersburg 1837 Vienna 1839 Tarnów	1847–48 Gródek 1849 Pécsvárad , then Fünfkirchen 1850 Essegg 1851 Maria-Theresiopel then Fünfkirchen 1852 Kecskemét 1854 Kronstadt 1855 Körmend 1856 Vienna 1858–59 Tulln 1859-66 Lugos 1866 Austerlitz 1871 Stockerau 1873 Vienna 1875 Neuhäusel 1886 Przemyśl 1894 Jaroslau 1898 Rzeszów 1914 Staff, I. Div: Rszeszów - II. Div. Dębica

Regimental owner

• 1688 Colonel Gustav Hannibal Graf Löwenschild (Dragoon Regiment Löwenschild)
• 1690 Colonel Leopold Graf Schlik (Dragoon Regiment Graf Schilk)
• 1705 Colonel Gundaker Graf Althann (Dragoon Regiment Althann)
• 1748 Colonel Archduke Joseph (Archduke Joseph Dragoon Regiment)
• 1765 Kaiser Joseph II. (Chevauxlegers Regiment Kaiser Joseph II.)
• 1790 Emperor Leopold II.
• 1792 Emperor Franz II.
• 1806 Emperor Franz I.
• 1835 Emperor Ferdinand I.
• 1848 Emperor Franz Joseph I.

Regimental Commanders

I.	II.	III.
1688 the owner, Colonel Löwenschild 1689 Lieutenant Colonel Lukács 1690 the owner Colonel Graf Schlik 1691 Lieutenant Colonel Bronsée 1693 Lieutenant Colonel Johann Freiherr von Ritschan 1698 Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig de Peroni 1702 Lieutenant Colonel Ernst Heinrich von Zengg 1703 Lieutenant Colonel Stadelmayer 1709 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Maxmilian Schuhknecht 1727 Colonel Leopold Freiherr von Wolff 1734 Colonel Nicolaus Count Pálffy 1734 Colonel Philipp Dickweiler 1743 Colonel Johann Freiherr von Soyer 1748 Colonel Franz Freiherr von Stein 1754 Colonel Franz Wiese 1758 Colonel Johann Graf Fuchs 1760 Colonel Carl Graf Richecourt	1771 Lieutenant Colonel Langendorff (ad interim) 1772 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Franz Graf Colloredo 1777 Colonel Nicolaus Graf Colloredo-Mels 1786 Colonel Johann Chevalier Fitzgerald 1793 Colonel Peter Freiherr von Bolza 1796 Colonel Franz Freiherr von Pilati 1800 Colonel Carl Freiherr von Kölbel 1801 Colonel Albert von De Best 1804 Colonel Joseph Count Baillet de Latour 1808 Colonel Carl Graf Raigecourt 1812 Colonel Simon Chevalier Fitzgerald 1820 Colonel Franz Graf Coudenhove 1824 Colonel Anton Freiherr von Puchner 1832 Colonel Joseph Edler von Glaeser 1838 Colonel Carl Freiherr von Moltke 1846 Colonel Gottfried von Reschenbach 1849 Colonel Johann Freiherr von Gorizzutti	1854 Colonel Carl Ritter von Brzezany 1859 Colonel Carl Netzer von Sillthal 1859 Colonel August Freiherr von Waldegg 1867 Colonel Wilhelm von Dorner 1873 Colonel Carl Freiherr von Lasollaye 1874 Colonel Alexander Count Kálnoky de Köröspatak 1874 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Victor Bolfek 1876 ​​Colonel Joseph Traxler 1879 Lieutenant Colonel-Colonel Otto Freiherr von Gagern 1885 Lieutenant Colonel Stanislaus Ritter von Kowalski 1885 Colonel Heinrich Graf Wolkenstein-Trostburg 1886 Lieutenant Colonel Emil Rübner 1890 Colonel Hermann Graf Salm-Hoogstraeten 1895 Colonel Hugo de Balthasar 1900 Lieutenant Colonel Johann Grossmann 1914 Colonel Alexander Dienstl

Battle of Slankamen

Battle calendar

→ Great Turkish War

• 1689 participation in the campaign to Bosnia and later to Transylvania .
• 1690 detached to the main army.
• 1691 Fighting in the Battle of Slankamen
• 1692 temporarily suspended for the blockade of Grosswardein. Then transferred to Transylvania, where it remained for the following years and only participated in subordinate operations of the local corps.
• 1696 Before Peterwardein. Part of the regiment was involved in the later expedition to Bosnia.
• 1698 Participated with the main army in the campaign against Temesvár, then detachment to the troops standing in front of Arad.

→ War of the Spanish Succession

• In 1702 the regiment moved from Transylvania to Upper Austria.
• 1703 In a skirmish near Eisenbirn, the association was attacked by Bavarian troops and suffered great losses.

→ Anti-Habsburg uprisings in the Kingdom of Hungary from 1671–1711

• 1703 At the end of the year the regiment moved to Hungary and fought in a battle near Levencz
• 1704 battles near Stuhlweissenburg and Gyarmat ( Raab )
• 1705 Seconded to the main army. Fight at Bibersburg and Sibó
• 1706 Security and patrol services in the Rabutin Corps in Upper Hungary
• 1707–1710 Security and patrol services in Hungary
• 1710 Participation in the battle near Romhány
• 1711 A rebel group is broken up near Puszta-Ondód

→ War of the Spanish Succession

• 1713 relocation to the Rhine. No combat activity

→ Venetian-Austrian Turkish War

• In 1716 the regiment was ordered back to Hungary. Here it took part in the battle of Peterwardein and the siege of Temesvár .
• 1717 Fighting at the siege and battle of Belgrade

→ War of the Polish Succession

• 1734 Relocated to Italy, the regiment fought in the Battle of Parma , Quingentole and the Battle of Guastalla
• 1735 Security and patrol services on the right bank of the Po . Then relocation to South Tyrol (which at that time also included Trentino !)

→ Russian-Austrian Turkish War (1736–1739)

• 1737 operations with the Valais corps in Transylvania and Wallachia
• 1738 Fighting with the main army at Kornia and Mehadia
• 1739 Participation in the Battle of Grocka

→ War of the Austrian Succession

• 1741 fighting in Silesia and the Battle of Mollwitz
• 1742 fighting in the battle near Caslau and the siege of Prague
• 1743 Security and patrol services in Bavaria. No combat activity
• 1744 Security and patrol services with the army on the Rhine, later relocated to Bohemia that year. No combat activity this year
• 1745 Participation in the Battle of Hohenfriedberg and the Battle of Thrush
• 1746 Relocation of the regiment to the Netherlands, participation in the battle at Rocour
• 1747 Participation in the battle of Lauffeldt

→ Seven Years War

• 1756 Heavy fighting in the Battle of Lobositz
• 1757 Fighting in the Battle of Prague and the Battle of Breslau . In the battle of Leuthen the regiment covered the retreat.
• 1758 Battles near Königgrätz and Spremberg
• 1759 Security and patrol services in Silesia, without combat activity
• 1760 A squadron was involved in a battle near Breslau. The regiment fought near Landshut and Liegnitz
• 1761 Assignment to the Russian army in Silesia
• 1762 fighting in battle near Peilau

→ War of the Bavarian Succession

• 1778 Detached to the army in Bohemia. Small fights only

→ coalition wars

The Rothenberg Fortress, forced to surrender by Rittmeister Baron Vécsey

• 1793 raid against Stablo and Malmedy . Divisions of the regiment fought at Tirlemont and Arlon .
• 1794 A detachment fought at Rochefort . The other detachments were on the Sambre , but only came into action in small outpost skirmishes
• 1795 Security and patrol services in the army on the Rhine ( Mannheim )
• In 1796, commanded into the army of Archduke Carl , the regiment under Colonel Bolza distinguished itself in the battle near Maubach. Rittmeister Baron Vécsey, as commandant of the avant-garde , forced the Rothenberg Fortress to hand over. He then distinguished himself in the battle at Riegel and during the siege of Kehl and subsequently received the Maria Theresa Order in 1801 (meanwhile promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in Hussar Regiment No. 7) . The regiment was still fighting near Würzburg.
• 1799 Relocated to Italy, the regiment fought at S. Giuliano and Novi . Divisions of the regiment took part in the skirmish near Beinette, the battle near Genola and the skirmishes near Carra and Mondovì . Major von Kees received the Maria Theresa Order.
• In 1800 the regiment distinguished itself in the battle of Romano and the Battle of Marengo and later fought in the Battle of Mincio. Rittmeister Gasser was subsequently awarded the Maria Theresa Order for his excellent posture with Romano and in earlier campaigns (1802)
• 1805 Lieutenant Colonel Graf Hardegg and his division prevented multiple attempts by enemy infantry to seize the key position of the Austrian position in the battle of Caldiero. Hardegg was decorated with the Maria Theresa Order
• 1809 in the VII Corps of Archduke Ferdinand in Poland, two squadrons took part in the attack on Jedlinsko. The regiment was deployed as a garrison in Warsaw for a while.

→ Wars of Liberation

• 1813 Seconded to the Liechtenstein Light Division in Germany, units took part in the battles near Marienberg , the Battle of Dresden , the attack on Freiberg , the battles near Altenburg and Naumburg , the Battle of Nations near Leipzig and the battle near Hochheim
• 1814 Still incorporated into the same division, the regiment only took part in smaller battles.

→ Rule of the Hundred Days

• 1815 Detached to the army on the Rhine, one division each was deployed in the siege of Strasbourg , Schlettstadt , Hüningen and Basel .

Risorgimento

• 1821 The regiment took part in the campaign to Naples and fought at Riet, Antrodocco and Leonessa as well as at the capture of Aquila
• In 1831 a division of the regiment was used in the occupation of Modena and in the legations, without action
• In 1846 divisions of the regiment stationed in Galicia participated in the suppression of the unrest that had broken out there

→ Revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire

• 1848 The lieutenant colonels and 1st majors division moved to Hungary in the Schlik corps and fought in the battles near Budamér and Szikszó
• 1849 The same departments fought at Eperies , Kaschau , Szantó and with distinction at Tarczal and Hatvan . A squadron successfully fended off an attack by insurgents on Igló . During the retreat from the Branisko Pass, divisions of the regiment rejected the pursuing enemy. During the summer campaign, the other two divisions were also in Hungary, the entire regiment fought in both battles of Komorn , as well as Makó and Dreispitz. In September three squadrons were detached for the siege of Komorn.

→ German war

• In 1866 there were four squadrons in the 2nd Corps of the Northern Army, individual divisions were involved in skirmishes near Salnay and Schurz, and the regiment in the battle of Königgrätz and Blumenau . A squadron fought in retreat in a battle near Abtsdorf . The 4th squadron was garrisoned in Josephstadt and Königgrätz .

→ First World War

During the First World War, the cavalry regiments were exposed to a wide variety of uses. Some of them continued to exist in the regimental association, some of them were divided into squadrons by infantry divisions, corps and army staffs as so-called division cavalry . (They provided services there as reconnaissance and reporting riders, as well as security detachments.) Most of the regiments, however, soon had to surrender the horses (if they still had any) and were then used by infantry. The regiments of the 4th Cavalry Troop Division were excluded from this.

Whereabouts

After the heavy loss of personnel and horses in the fighting against Russia at the beginning of the war, the regiment was disbanded in 1915. Together with the remains of other cavalry regiments, the former Uhlan Regiment No. 6 formed the newly established Cavalry Rifle Regiment No. 9.

Adjustment

• 1738: adjustment as Dragoon - Regiment : red skirt, green premiums
• 1757: dark blue skirt, ponca red cuffs
• 1765: red skirt, dark green equalization , white buttons * (planned, but not carried out due to the upcoming conversion into a Chevauxlers regiment)
• 1766: As Chevauxlegers regiment: grass-green skirt, ponceau-red leveling, white trousers, yellow buttons
• 1798: As Dragoon Regiment No. 1: dark green skirt, scarlet equalization, yellow buttons
• 1802: As Chevauxlegers Regiment No. 1: white skirt, dark red equalization, yellow buttons
• 1807: dark green skirt, light red equalization (from 1810 scarlet red), yellow buttons
• 1851: As Uhlan Regiment No. 6: imperial yellow czapka , dark green ulanka and pantaloons, scarlet equalization, white buttons
• 1865: yellow tartare, light blue ulanka and trousers, madder red equalization, white buttons
• 1868: Imperial yellow Tatarka, light blue ulanka, madder red leveling and boot pants, white buttons
• 1876: Imperial yellow czapka, light blue ulanka, madder red leveling and boot pants, white buttons

The regiment possessed a golden owner anniversary medal to be worn on a silver trumpet of honor, bestowed on November 30, 1898 with the very highest command letter. This showed on the front the relief portrait of the emperor in the owner's uniform, the inscription "Franz Joseph I." and the shield of the supreme coat of arms with the crown. The reverse contained the dedication: "The owner of his Uhlanen regiment Kaiser Joseph II. No. 6, 1848-1898". The trumpet was decorated with gilded reliefs and an embroidered gold cloth curtain.

Status and association membership 1914

• Xth Army Corps - 6th Cavalry Troop Division - 14th Cavalry Brigade
• Nationalities: 52% Poles - 40% Ruthenians - 8% Various
• Regimental languages: Polish and Ruthenian

structure

A regiment in the Austro-Hungarian Cavalry usually consisted of three to four (in exceptional cases 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 fluctuated, but was usually around 80 riders per company.

(With the army reform begun by Emperor Joseph II , however, 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
• the 5th division (if any) was called the 3rd majors division

In the course of the army reform, the cavalry regiments were reduced from 1860 to initially three and then to two divisions.

Due to the constant renaming, the regimental histories of the Austro-Hungarian cavalry are very difficult to follow. In addition, there is the constant and apparently arbitrary, sometimes multiple reclassification of the associations. (For example: Kuk Bohemian Dragoon Regiment "Prince of Windisch-Graetz" No. 14 )

• see: kuk Ulanen

See also

• List of cavalry regiments of the Imperial Habsburg army in the early modern period
• List of the Standing Armies of the Early Modern Period

Commons : Uniforms of the Austrian Cavalry 1762  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

• Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck , Erich Lessing: The KuK Army 1848-1914. Bertelsmann, Munich 1989, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .
• Hans Bleckwenn : The regiments of the Empress: Thoughts on the Albertina manuscript 1762 of the Army History Museum Vienna. In: Writings of the Army History Museum in Vienna. Volume 3: Maria Theresia - Contributions to the history of the army of her time. Graz, Vienna, Cologne 1967, pp. 25–53.
• Hans Bleckwenn: Horsemen, Hussars and Grenadiers. d. Uniforms d. emperor. Army on the Rhine 1734. Harenberg, Dortmund 1979, ISBN 3-88379-125-3 , p. 17ff.
• Bertrand Michael Buchmann: Austria and the Ottoman Empire. WUV-Univ.-Verl., Vienna 1999, ISBN 978-3-85114-479-6 .
• Hermann Meynert : History of the KK Austrian Army, its formation and organization, as well as its fate, actions and campaigns, from the earliest to the present time. C. Gerold and Son, Vienna 1854. online at google books
• Osprey Military. Issue No. 271, reprint 1999.
• Austrian military history. Special volume 1997, Verlag Stöhr Vienna.
• Georg Schreiber : The emperor's cavalry. Austrian cavalry in 4 centuries. With a foreword by Alois Podhajsky . Speidel, Vienna 1967.
• Georg Tessin : The regiments of the European states in the Ancien Régime des XVI. to XVIII. Century. 3 volumes. Biblio, Osnabrück 1986–1995, ISBN 3-7648-1763-1 , p. 152ff.
• Alphons von Wrede: The history of the kuk Wehrmacht. The regiments, corps, branches and establishments from 1618 to the end of the XIX. Century. Vienna 1898–1905. Part III, Part 1 Cavalry, Part 2 Disbanded troops on horseback. Directory of regiment chiefs at the Wrede plant (PDF; 325 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ticino 1986 vol. 1:40
2. ↑ Bleckwenn
3. ↑ 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