Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15

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The Schleswig-Holstein Lancers Regiment. 15 was a cavalry joined the Prussian army .

Ulan of the Schleswig-Holstein Regiment No. 15

Association membership

Commanding general : General of the infantry Fritz von Below
Commander : Lieutenant General Hasso von Bredow
Commander: Major General Kurt Koscielski von Ponoschau
Regimental commander: Colonel von Printz
Foundation Day: September 27, 1866
Garrison: Saarburg

history

With AKO of October 30, 1866, the

ordered the formation of a 15th Uhlan regiment. The new regiment was distributed to the cities of Perleberg , Kyritz and Wusterhausen . In April 1867 a 5th squadron was set up and from November 7, 1867 the association was given the provincial designation "Schleswig-Holsteinisches" and since then has been called Schleswig-Holstein Uhlan Regiment No. 15 . After returning from France, where the association had been assigned to the occupation forces on the occasion of the war of 1870/71, the Uhlans moved into a garrison in Strasbourg . In 1896 the regiment moved to its last garrison in Saarburg in Lorraine .

Franco-German War

In the Franco-Prussian War , the regiment fought on August 14, 1870 in the battle of Colombey , on August 16 at Vionville St. Privat / Mars la Tour and on August 18 at Gravelotte . In November 1870 he was transferred to the Southwest Army with battles against the French Loire Army near Orléans (December 3 to 4, 1870), Le Mans (January 10 to 12, 1871) and Tours . After the armistice, the Uhlans moved in July 1871 to the city and fortress of Strasbourg, which was now part of the German Empire.

First World War

At the beginning of the First World War, the Uhlan regiment moved on August 3, 1914 with its sister regiment , the Uhlan regiment "Graf Haeseler" (2nd Brandenburg) No. 11 ), with which it was part of the 42nd division for almost the entire war. (Yellow) Cavalry Brigade ( 7th Cavalry Division ) should remain out on the Western Front . Initially, the Uhlans provided border protection in Lorraine, and then advanced on Amiens and Compiègne in September . After the Battle of the Marne and the associated retreat, the Uhlans took part in the so-called race to the sea and then fought, some of them already dismounted, on the right wing of the German front in Belgium and northern France until December 1914 . In April 1915, the association moved to the Vosges and fought dismounted at the Hartmannsweilerkopf . After that (exact time nB) the regiment provided rearward services (courier and security tasks) in Belgium until mid-1916 before it was transferred to the Eastern Front on December 15, 1916 . Here the unit fought partly in position battle in front of Daugavpils , in Estonia and Livonia . In the spring of 1918 it was moved back to the western front, where the horses were handed in and the troops were used as infantry cavalry rifle regiment from May 1918 .

Whereabouts

After the Armistice of Compiègne, the regiment moved into Osterburg in December 1918 , where it was then demobilized and finally disbanded.

The tradition in the Reichswehr was taken over by the 4th Squadron of the 11th (Prussian) Cavalry Regiment in Neustadt .

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Gustav Hermann von Alvensleben October 30, 1866 to April 11, 1873
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Franz von Klocke April 21, 1873 to August 14, 1874
Colonel Emanuel von Korff August 15, 1874 to July 8, 1878
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Richard von Scholten 0July 9, 1878 to February 2, 1880
Major / Lieutenant Colonel Oskar von Treskow 0February 3, 1880 to April 17, 1882
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Adolph Chales de Beaulier April 18, 1882 to July 6, 1887
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Louis Schmidt von Schmiedeseck 0July 7, 1887 to December 10, 1890
Lieutenant colonel August von Neukirchen called von Nyvenheim December 18, 1890 to May 12, 1895
Colonel Maximilian Count Yorck von Wartenburg May 13, 1895 to September 11, 1896
Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Eugen von Koblinski September 12, 1896 to May 17, 1901
major Erwin Seutter from Lötzen May 18, 1901 to April 21, 1902 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant colonel Erwin Seutter from Lötzen April 22, 1902 to June 13, 1904
Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Johannes Simon June 14, 1904 to April 19, 1910

uniform

The Uhlans wore a dark blue tunic called ulanka . This was provided with Polish surcharges and was given an unbuttoned parade discount for the parade. A white horsehair bush was attached to the chapka for the parade . The regimental number was on the shoulder pieces and epaulettes .

The so-called badge color of the regiment was lemon yellow. The parade discounts of the ulanka and the chapka, the epaulette fields and passers-by were of this color. Likewise the cuffs, the piping and the collar. The buttons and fittings were brass in color. A white bandolier with a black cartridge ran from the left shoulder to the right hip . The breeches were anthracite colored.

Already ordered by AKO on February 14, 1907 and introduced gradually from 1909/10, the colorful uniform was replaced for the first time by the field-gray field service uniform (M 1910) on the occasion of the imperial maneuver in 1913. This was completely like the peace uniform. The leather gear and the boots were natural brown, the Tschapka was covered by a reed-colored fabric cover. The bandolier and the cartridge were no longer applied to this uniform.

literature

  • Günther Voigt: Germany's armies until 1918. Origin and development of the individual formations. Edited by Hans Bleckwenn and Dermot Bradley . Volume 7: Cavalry: Hussars and Uhlans. Biblio publishing house. Osnabrück 1986. ISBN 3-7648-1199-4 .
  • Hugo FW Schulz: The Prussian Cavalry Regiments 1913/1914. Weltbild Verlag. Augsburg 1992.
  • Jürgen Kraus : The German army in the First World War. Uniforms and equipment - 1914 to 1918. (= catalogs of the Bavarian Army Museum Ingolstadt 2). Publishing house Militaria. Vienna 2004. ISBN 3-9501642-5-1 .
  • Gerhard von Glasenapp: History of Schleswig-Holstein's Uhlan Regiment No. 15. ES Mittler & Sohn . Berlin 1894.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our Old Army's Hall of Fame. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. p. 32.