Military Savings Commission
The Military Savings Commission was created by King Ludwig I in 1826 to save the sum of 1,000,000 guilders (which was one seventh of the Bavarian military expenditure).
This was done through:
- Reduction of the strength of the presence through the dissolution of some regiments , including the two guard regiments
- Grenadier -Garderegiment was in the Infantry Life Guards converted
- Garde du Corps , was incorporated into the 1st Cuirassier Regiment .
- Abolition of the army stud
- Austerity measures in administration
- Simplification of the uniforms
The abolition of the guard regiments was hotly debated between the king and Carl Philipp von Wrede . Ludwig I justified the lifting of the guard by saying that in an emergency it would be too small and would not be needed as a showpiece .
The reforms of the Military Savings Commission did not bring about any lasting improvement in the Bavarian Army . On the one hand, this was due to Wrede's insistence on traditions ;
The money saved was not used for the arts, but for the expansion of the Ingolstadt fortress .
literature
- Max Spindler, Handbook of Bavarian History, Volume 4, Part 1 (The New Bavaria from 1800 to the Present. First Part: State and Politics), Beck, 2003, ISBN 978-3-406-50451-8
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hanns Helmut Böck Karl Philipp Fürst von Wrede as political advisor to King Ludwig I of Bavaria. [1825-1838] , Wölfle, 1968