State horse breeding institutions

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The state horse breeding institutions provided the Austro-Hungarian armed forces with the necessary riding and draft animals in order to make the state as independent as possible with regard to the purchase of horses for military purposes.

organization

The personnel of the institutions were provided by officers , NCOs and men of the kk Landwehr or the ku Landwehr . The ku institutes also had so-called economy teams with the status of military craftsmen. They were not soldiers, although they were in uniform and were subject to military disciplinary authority.

The individual state studs and state stallion depots were grouped under the heading of state horse breeding institutions.

The stud brandies of the Austro-Hungarian state studs

The horse breeding establishments were administratively and in all horse breeding matters (but not with the staff) subordinate to the respective Ministry of Agriculture or the Croatian-Slavonian state government.

The rank designations corresponded to the cavalry , the lowest rank was stud soldier.

Uniformity

kk stud industry

Parade tunic, kk stud sergeant
Attila to the parade
k.u. Stud corporal

To the parade the men and officers wore a light blue cap like the officers, with florets and distinctive trims made of black and yellow wool. The field cap was like the dragoons. The tunic and blouse corresponded to the train troops, but with yellow, smooth buttons without an armpit loop and light blue equalizing color . The rest of the clothing and equipment was analogous to the dragoons.

The officers were uniformed according to the same regulations, but they wore the shako and the infantry field cap.

ku stud industry

Men and officers

To the parade they wore the shako of the hussars with madder red leveling; instead of the regimental number there was an imperial eagle on the heart shield of the coat of arms. The field cap of the teams and NCOs corresponded to that of the dragoons, but officers wore infantry chakos and field caps. The attilas after the cut of the hussars were dark brown, the olives and buttons were yellow. All other uniform and equipment details adhered to the hussars.

Teams of economics

The teams of the economy, with the designation "Tschikosch" (horse herdsman) and "Beresch" (farmhand), wore matt black felt hats with two emblems. One represented a laurel wreath made from Pakfong, inside of which was the very highest signature (Hungarian FIJ - not FJI). The second emblem consisted of a brass plaque with the first letter of the stud. Tschikosche and Beresche used a jacket (also called Kanko or Spenzer) made of dark brown fabric with a madder red leveling as a tunic. The kanko was closed over the chest with five brass olives. The lap pockets had a double curvature with passepoils at the bottom . The sleeves were provided with upturned cuffs in a leveling color. Chikoshe wore vests with stand-up collars and breeches in madder red, the Bereschen wore the same vests and trousers, but in blue-gray. It was allowed to wear a black scarf made of sheep's wool. This had to be 159 cm long and equipped with 13 cm long fringes at both ends.

literature

  • Austrian State Archives / War Archives in Vienna (adjustment regulation for the Austro-Hungarian Army, Part III, Vienna 1911)
  • Glenn Jewison, Jörg C. Steiner: The Austro-Hungarian Land Forces 1848-1918
  • Johann C. Allmayer-Beck, Erich Lessing: The Kuk Army. 1848-1914 . Bertelsmann publishing house, Munich 1974, ISBN 3-570-07287-8 .
  • Stefan Rest, M. Christian Ortner , Thomas Ilming: The Emperor's Rock in the First World War - Uniforms and Equipment of the Austro-Hungarian Army from 1914 to 1918 , Verlag Militaria, Vienna 2002, ISBN 3-9501642-0-0
  • The Austro-Hungarian Army in 1895 Writings from the Army History Museum in Vienna - Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 1997

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical Lexicon of the Austrian Empire , search for 'Military Studs'