Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13

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The Schleswig-Holstein Dragoons. 13 was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .

history

With the Supreme Cabinet Order (AOK) of October 30, 1866, the regiment was set up with four squadrons. It was formed from the 5th Squadron of the Cuirassier Regiment No. 7 , the Dragoon Regiment No. 6 and the Hussar Regiments No. 10 and 12 . The 5th squadron of the regiment was set up on April 1, 1867 by the regiment itself.

On November 7, 1867, the association was given the name Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13 . It was initially spread over a few smaller towns in Saxony . On July 1, 1871, the Regiment Flensburg and Hadersleben was assigned as a garrison. In October 1877 the association moved to St. Avold and Saarburg in Lorraine and on April 1, 1886 to Metz as the final garrison . The regiment was subordinate to the 33rd Cavalry Brigade in Metz.

Franco-German War

Regimental memorial at the Schleswig garrison cemetery

The regiment took part in the association of the 5th Cavalry Division in the Battle of Vionville and the Battle of Mars-la-Tour . On August 16, 1870, it rode an attack on the plateau of Ville sur Yvron with heavy losses. It was then assigned to the siege ring around Paris in order to be used against the French Northern Army near Rouen . In May 1871 the march back to the home garrison began.

First World War

With the mobilization, the regiment moved to the nearby border and led the first battles there. This was followed by participation in the Battle of Longwy from August 22nd to 25th, 1914 and the advance over the Rhine-Marne Canal to the Meuse . After the Battle of the Marne and the withdrawal, the association was initially deployed in Flanders . In November 1914, the regiment moved to the Eastern Front and fought there in the Battle of Łódź until mid-December . In 1915 the use was made partly kavalleristisch, partly in the trench warfare in northern Poland.

Because of the heavy occurrence of horse buildings , the unit moved to Germany in February 1916, as the animals could be cared for better here. Then she returned to the front on the Daugava .

At the end of November 1916, the regiment was transferred to the Western Front , where the regiment was used in patrol and security services in Belgium and Luxembourg .

At the end of February 1917 the horses were surrendered and training in infantry trench warfare took place.

Then the regimental association was dissolved and the individual squadrons were divided into different divisions, where they participated in defensive battles in the west until the armistice.

Staff and 1st Squadron of the 234th Division
4th Squadron to 236th Division
2nd squadron to 238th Division
3rd Squadron to 240th Division

Whereabouts

The regimental association was not reestablished and the individual squadrons with their respective divisions were dissolved after the Armistice of Compiègne from December 1918 to January 1919.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was adopted by the 4th Squadron of the 14th Cavalry Regiment in Schleswig by decree of the Chief of the Army Command, General of the Infantry Hans von Seeckt . In the Wehrmacht , the 4th Squadron of Cavalry Regiment 14 in Parchim continued the tradition before it was transferred to Reconnaissance Department 20 in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek in 1939 .

Regiment chief

On the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary of service, the cavalry general Albert von Rheinbaben (1813–1880) was appointed first regiment chief by King Wilhelm I. After his death, the position remained vacant until Alexander von Hessen-Darmstadt was appointed as the new head of the regiment on September 8, 1883. With the death of the prince on December 15, 1888, this high position was no longer occupied.

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Gustav von Brauchitsch October 30, 1866 to April 11, 1873
Lieutenant colonel Gustav von Werner April 15, 1873 to October 16, 1876
major Karl von der Groeben October 17, 1876 to June 20, 1877 (in charge of the tour)
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Karl von der Groeben June 21, 1877 to May 16, 1879
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Ferdinand von Stein-Liebenstein zu Barchfeld May 17 to November 12, 1879 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant colonel Ferdinand von Stein-Liebenstein zu Barchfeld November 13, 1879 to March 13, 1882
Lieutenant colonel Adolph Wiegrebe March 14, 1882 to August 5, 1884
Colonel Karl von Bredow 0August 6-20, 1884
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Adolf Treusch von Buttlar-Brandenfels August 21, 1884 to February 10, 1886
Lieutenant colonel August von Marshal February 11, 1886 to March 25, 1887
major Friedrich von Willich March 26 to November 14, 1887 (entrusted with the tour)
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Friedrich von Willich November 15, 1887 to April 15, 1889
Lieutenant colonel Maximilian Kehl April 16, 1889 to June 15, 1891
Lieutenant colonel Georg von Holtzenbecher June 16, 1891 to April 20, 1894
Lieutenant colonel Konrad von Hausmann April 21, 1894 to October 17, 1896
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Georg Beamish-Bernard October 18, 1896 to July 2, 1899
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Otto von Schack 0July 3, 1899 to June 13, 1904
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Konrad Dumrath June 14, 1904 to April 19, 1910
Dignity. Lieutenant colonel Max Forster April 20, 1910 to January 26, 1911
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Karl von Broich January 27, 1911 to August 9, 1914
major Karl von Loßberg August 10 to September 25, 1914 (entrusted with the tour)
Lieutenant colonel Otto Mumm von Schwarzenstein September 26, 1914 to April 5, 1915
major Friedrich Schmoller 0April 6, 1915 to January 10, 1919
Lieutenant colonel Konrad von Bernewitz January 11, 1919 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 ponceau red. 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 were 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

  • 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. ^ 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. 69.
  2. ^ 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 , pp. 69f.