Kurhannoversches Reuterregiment R 2-A

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Cavalry Regiment 2A "Old Bremen"

Reuter Regiment Alt-Bremer (C IIA) around 1763, after Raspe
active 1664 to 1803 ( Artlenburg Convention )
Country Hanover Flag of Hanover (1692) .svg
Branch of service Heavy rider
Former locations Celle
Origin of the soldiers Nobility and bourgeoisie in Lower Saxony
owner Villier (1670), Feige (1671), Beauregard (1674), Brennecke (1690), Fréchapelle (1694), Schlüter (1711), Drewes (1731), Rathmann (1732), Montigny (1734), CG Dachenhausen (1754) , CF Bremer (1758), HC Hammerstein (1782), Prince Ernst (1793), Bülow (1798)
motto ARMA VIROSQUE CANO
Tribe list List of the regiments of the Electorate of Brunswick and Lüneburg
Trunk number 1672-2 ( Ticino ) - C IIA ( Bleckwenn ) - 1783 official Cavalry Regiment No. 2
Wars & major battles Nine Years 'War , Great Turkish War , War of Spanish Succession , Great Northern War , War of Austrian Succession , Seven Years' War , Napoleonic Wars , Ramillies (1706), Oudenaarde (1708), Malplaquet (1709), Dettingen (1743), Hastenbeck (1757), Krefeld (1758) , Bergen (1759), Minden (1759), Wilhelmsthal (1762), Hondschoote (1793)

The second cavalry regiment or Kurhannoversche Reuterregiment R 2-A (1672) was an association of heavy cavalry of the Electorate of Hanover from around 1664 to 1803.

Lineup

Bremer coat of arms

The exact year of construction is unknown. The regular troops were two squadrons from Cellism who had probably been in Swedish service around 1664. In 1670 Colonel Villier took over the regiment. In 1776 the squadrons of the Alt-Bremer regiment (C IIA) were combined with the two Hanoverian squadrons of the HA Sprengel regiment, also Alt-Sprengel (C IIB), which had been assigned as early as 1763. The unit was now called the “von Bremer” regiment. In 1783 the regiment was given the number 2, or the naming of the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, which it kept until its dissolution in 1803.

Commanders

  • around 1670 Colonel Villier
  • 1671 Colonel Feige
  • 1674 Major General of Beauregard
  • 1690 Colonel Brennecke
  • 1694 Major General de la Croix de Fréchapelle
  • 1711 Major General von Schlueter
  • 1731 Colonel von Drewes
  • 1732 Colonel Rathmann
  • 1734, in April, Colonel Johann Carl von Montigny, died as major general on July 16, 1754.
  • 1754, in August, Colonel Carl Gustav von Dachenhausen, who in 1758 was the 5th Dragoon Regiment of J. Cr. von Dachenhausen received
  • 1758, in August, Colonel Christian Friedrich von Bremer, known as Bremer senior, promoted to major general 1761, lieutenant general 1762, general of the cavalry 1777, died 1781 (commanding lieutenant colonel of the regiment from 1761: Georg Wilhelm von Ramdohr)
  • 1782 Colonel Hanns Carl von Hammerstein , promoted to major general in 1787, took over the 3rd Cavalry Regiment in 1793 .
  • 1793 Colonel Prince Ernst August , from the light 9th Dragoon Regiment. Chief of the regiment until his return to England in March 1798.
  • 1798 Colonel von Bülow , Schwarmstedt headquarters in May, regiment in Vissendorf. Promoted to major general in November 1798. Farewell to the mobile troops in 1799 (Lieutenant Colonel in command in 1799: von Dzierzanowsky, in Börry near Hameln). In 1803, Brigade Commander Bülow was temporarily back in charge of the regiment in Walsrode.
  • 1803 Colonel Honosch Bogislaw von Dzierzanowsky, prevented a mutiny the day before the dissolution
Uniform of the Electorate of Hanover 2nd Cavalry Regiment around 1790, in the magnificent Gmunden factory .

Campaigns and skirmishes

  • Around 1690 he took part in campaigns against the Turks and the French .

War of the Spanish Succession

Great Northern War

  • 1719 Battle of Walsmühlen between Sweden and Kurhannover

War of the Polish Succession

  • 1734–1735 with imperial troops on the Rhine border against France

War of the Austrian Succession

Seven Years War

Coalition wars

  • 1793–94, deployment in the Hanoverian contingent of the German Reichsarmee against the French revolutionary troops invading Germany.
  • Part of the siege corps off Valenciennes on June 10, 1793, with two squadrons.
  • Defeat in the Battle of Hondschoote (September 8, 1793).
  • At the end of 1793, Prince Ernst August reluctantly took over the regiment on royal orders and complained about deficiencies in equipment, discipline and personnel, which were considerably worse than in his previous regiment (light 9th Dragoon Regiment).
  • March 26, 1794 with 2 squadrons at Tournai at Corps Clerfait
  • Battle of retreat on March 13, 1795 near Bentheim ,
  • Border security in East Frisia in 1795, no enemy contact.
  • On the night of July 4, 1803, during the ongoing surrender negotiations, the regiment received the order to saddle up in the camp near Lauenburg in order to counter a feared crossing of the Elbe by the French. In view of the hopeless general situation, there was a mutiny and conflicts with officers of the Leib Regiment. A violent riot of around 200 men in the regiment was prevented at the last minute by Commander Dzierzanowsky.

Whereabouts

After temporary demobilization in 1801, the regiment was finally disbanded with the surrender of Kurhannovers in accordance with the Artlenburg Convention in July 1803. Remnants were later on in the Hanoverian Legion of the French Army, in units of the Kingdom of Westphalia and the King's German Legion .

Association membership

Stationed in 1791, according to CG Wurmb

Campaign 1794

  • 1st Cavalry Brigade, stationed in Tourcoing - Commander Prince Ernst August

Structure from 1798

Cavalry brigade together with life guards on horseback and 1st Cavalry Rgt. (Leibregiment) , almost mutiny on July 4, 1803.
Leibstandarte, after J. Niemeyer
Reconstruction of the 2nd standard, after L. Sichart, volume 2., Kronoskaf

Uniform and standards

From 1729 to 1761 a long white skirt and paille-colored trousers were worn. There were also black cuirassier boots. The color of the badge on the cuffs and lapels was light green, from 1740 in a darker shade, the buttons and braids in silver. Underclothes were natural color. Headgear was a three- cornered hat with a silver trim. The saddlecloth was green and the edge was richly decorated.

In 1761 the dark blue uniform was introduced. The badge color of the Swedish cuffs, lapels, lapels and the turned-up collar was initially blue-green until 1766, then white, as was the waistcoat. The collar was fastened to a button at the front. The buttons had been gold-colored since 1761, and the buttonholes in the skirt pockets were bordered in white. The saddlecloth and pistol pouches were dark blue with a gold border and decorated with a white saxony horse on a red background and a crown, the round sackcloth was blue with a white border. Hat with gold trim and black cockade . Officers wore two gold epaulettes . The leather gear was all white, the cartridge pouch with a white top flap hung on a white bandolier over the left shoulder . The straight saber was worn on the belt.

From around 1700 to 1803 the regiment led a white body standard with a riding George knight with a green dragon and a green standard with a white horse, which has been preserved in the Hanover Historical Museum to this day . Timpani were made of copper, green in color, decorated with a white horse under a standing electoral hat. It is unclear whether the two standards of the two squadrons of the Alt-Sprengel regiment, which were taken up in 1776, remained in use until 1803, but it can be assumed.

literature

  • Hans Bleckwenn : The Frederician uniforms 1753–1786 . Volume III: Mounted Troops. Dortmund 1984, ISBN 3-88379-444-9 .
  • Christoph Girtanner: Political Annals. Second volume. JF Unger, Berlin 1793, pp. 103-104.
  • Peter Hofschroer: The Hanoverian Army of the Napoleonic Wars (= Men-at-Arms. 206). Osprey Publishing 1989, ISBN 0-85045-887-0 .
  • Joachim Niemeyer, Georg Ortenburg (ed.): The Hanoverian Army 1780–1803 - The “Gmunden Magnificent Work” Part II. Published on behalf of the German Society for Heereskunde e. V. and the KLIO. Publishing house Bernh. Vogel, Beckum 1981.
  • Joachim Niemeyer , Georg Ortenburg (ed.): The Chur-Braunschweig-Lüneburg Army in the Seven Years War. In: The “Gmunden magnificent work”. Beckum 1976.
  • Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Volume 14, Historical Association for Lower Saxony, 1903, p. 128.
  • Matthias Rohles: Seven times the king. Great Britannian and Elector Princes. Braunschweigisch-Lüneburg state calendar ... to the 1769th year of Christ. printed by JG Berenberg, Lauenburg 1768, p. 78.
  • Johann Gottlieb Ferdinand Ronnenberg: Illustration of the Chur-Hanoverian army uniforms: a brief history of the. churhannover. Troops . Hanover / Leipzig 1791. (Reprint: Schlüter, Hanover 1979)
  • L. von Sichart: history of the royal. hannov. Army 1756–1789 . 1870, p. 40 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Matthias Rohles: Sevenfold Royal .... State calendar. 1769, p. 78.
  2. ↑ private Kronoskaf page u. Sources there
  3. ↑ cf. L. von Sichart: History of the Royal Hanoverian Army. Volume 3, Part 2, p. 211.
  4. ↑ see Christoph Girtanner: Politische Annalen. P. 103, chap. 15 Mixed messages.
  5. ↑ cf. A. Aspinall (Ed.): The Correspondence of George, Prince of Wales, 1770-1812: 1789-1794. Volume 2, Cassel Verlag, London 1964, p. 419.
  6. ↑ cf. L. Sichart: History of the Hanoverian Army. Volume 4, pages 808-809
  7. ^ Sources and representations on the history of Lower Saxony. Volume 14, Histor. Association f. Lower Saxony, 1903, p. 128.