Kurmärkisches Dragoon Regiment No. 14

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The Kurmärkische Dragoons. 14 was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .

history

The association was formed by AKO on October 30, 1866 from charges of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 5 , the Dragoon Regiment No. 4 and the Hussar Regiment No. 2 . The installation was completed on November 5th. Staff, 1st and 5th squadrons were stationed in Pleschen , the 2nd squadron in Koźmin , the 3rd squadron in Gostyń and the 4th squadron in Ostrów . For better differentiation and to develop tradition, the association was given a name extension on November 7, 1867 and from that point on it was called Kurmärkisches Dragoon Regiment No. 14 . After winning the war against France, the regiment moved to Colmar as a new garrison on April 5, 1871 .

Franco-German War

After the regiment had received the mobilization order on the night of July 15-16, 1870 on the occasion of the war against France , the dragoons moved out on July 28th and were loaded onto the train two days later in Lissa . Initially only used for reconnaissance, the association took part in the battles near Weißenburg , Wörth and Sedan . It was then assigned to the siege ring around Paris .

First World War

With the mobilization, the regiment moved to the border near Mulhouse and there led the first battles against the French units attacking from Belfort . Frontier battles followed in Lorraine . After the Battle of the Marne in the course of the front extension, the regiment took part in the race to the sea and reached northern France. In November 1914, the association moved to the Eastern Front and fought there with the 39th Cavalry Brigade with the Jäger Regiment on Horseback No. 3 in the Kovel and Brest-Litovsk area against enemy troops .

Whereabouts

After the end of the war , each squadron had to make their own way home. The individual squadrons did not arrive in Hünfeld without problems by January 1919 , where they were initially demobilized and finally dissolved. A volunteer squadron was from the remnants of the regiment then formed in May 1919 in the Free Corps was involved "Eulenburg" on border protection in Silesia.

The tradition took over in the Reichswehr by decree of the Chief of the Army Command General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt from August 24th 1921 the 4th Squadron of the 7th (Prussian) Cavalry Regiment in Lüben .

Memorial plaque in Breisach from 1962

monument

On the Eckartsberg in Breisach am Rhein , a twelve-meter-high obelisk was erected in 1929 as a central memorial for the regiment, based on a design by the architect Karl Gruber (1885–1966) as the central memorial of this regiment. After severe damage in World War II, it was demolished. The Freiburg sculptor Walter Schelenz (1903–1997) designed a memorial plaque, which was also inaugurated on Eckartsberg in 1962.

Regiment chief

Rank Surname date
Leopold II , King of Belgium February 22, 1878 to December 17, 1909
Alexandra Viktoria of Prussia May 14, 1912 until dissolution

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hermann von Schön October 30, 1866 to March 30, 1872
Colonel Friedrich von der Groeben March 31 to July 17, 1872 (substitute)
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Richard von Gottberg July 18, 1872 to April 14, 1873 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Richard von Gottberg April 15, 1872 to April 28, 1879
Lieutenant colonel Hermann Vogt April 29, 1879 to December 6, 1880
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand von Dörnberg 07 December 1880 to 17 October 1881 (entrusted with the tour)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Ferdinand von Dörnberg October 18, 1881 to March 21, 1887
Lieutenant colonel Max von Maltzahn March 22, 1887 to October 14, 1888
Lieutenant colonel Fedor Engelmann October 15, 1888 to August 11, 1890
Lieutenant colonel Curt von Bachmayr August 12, 1890 to May 16, 1892
Lieutenant colonel Helmuth von Hardenberg May 17 to June 17, 1892 (substitute)
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Helmuth von Hardenberg June 18, 1892 to April 16, 1897
Dignity. Colonel Karl von Röder April 17, 1897 to June 15, 1901
Dignity. Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Hermann von Roeder June 16, 1901 to April 9, 1906
Colonel Ernst Legde April 10, 1906 to December 16, 1908
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Günther von Etzel December 17, 1908 to April 21, 1912
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Bernhard Bronsart von Schellendorff April 22, 1912 to July 30, 1914
Lieutenant colonel Paul von Schoenaich 0August 8, 1914 to July 11, 1915
major August von Westerweller July 12, 1915 until dissolution

uniform

The dragoons wore a cornflower blue tunic and charcoal gray trousers. The tunic was equipped with Swedish lapels.

The so-called badge color of the regiment was black. The cuffs , the stand-up collar, the epaulette fields and passers-by were of this color . The collar and the cuffs were finished with white piping. The regimental number was on the shoulder pieces and epaulettes. The buttons and fittings made of tombac. A white bandolier with a black cartridge ran from the left shoulder to the right hip . The bandolier and cartridge were not worn with the evening suit and formal suit. The helmet was equipped with a dragoon eagle made of tombac, scale chains and the tip of the helmet were also made of tombac . A black (for the musicians a red) horsehair bush was put on for the parade. The country cockade was white and black. Likewise the lance flag of the teams. The waist strap (the dragoons did not wear a belt) was white and had a simple pin buckle.

According to AOK of February 14, 1907, the field gray uniform M 1910 was introduced for field service from 1909/10. In this uniform, the straps and boots were natural brown, the helmet was covered by a reed-colored cover. The bandolier and cartridge were no longer worn.

literature

  • Ilsemann: History of the Kurmärkichen Dragoon Regiment No. 14. Hermann Hillger Verlag, Berlin 1907.
  • Jürgen Kraus : The German Army in World War I: Uniforms and Equipment. 1914 to 1918. Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2004 (= catalogs of the Bavarian Army Museum, 2), ISBN 3-9501642-5-1 .
  • Hugo FW Schulz: The Prussian Cavalry Regiments 1913/1914. Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Friedberg 1985, licensed edition Weltbild Verlag, Augsburg 1992, ISBN 3-89350-343-9 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information board for the memorial plaque
  2. ^ A b Günter Wegmann (ed.), Günter Wegner: Formation history and staffing of the German armed forces 1815-1990. Part 1: Occupation of the German armies 1815–1939. Volume 3: The occupation of the active regiments, battalions and departments from the foundation or list until August 26, 1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2413-1 , p. 71.