Thuringian Uhlan Regiment No. 6

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Thuringian Uhlan Regiment No. 6

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Lineup February 18, 1813
Country Prussia
Branch of service cavalry
Type Uhlans
Location Hanau

The . Thüringische Lancers Regiment 6 was a Lancers - Regiment of the Prussian army . It was set up in the Wars of Liberation as part of the Lützow Freikorps and ceased to exist as a regiment with demobilization after the end of the First World War in 1918/19.

history

The Hanau Francois barracks , the regiment's garrison from 1891 to 1914
In Romania in 1916

With AKO of February 18, 1813, Major Ludwig Adolf Wilhelm von Lützow was approved to set up a free corps. Its 600-strong cavalry was divided into five squadrons , most of which were equipped as lancers, while the 4th and 5th squadrons were hussars . The 2nd Squadron was initially organized as a hunter on horseback . After Napoleon's first abdication, the former hunter squadron was dissolved and the corps was transferred to the line troops. The infantry became the 25th Infantry Regiment , the cavalry the 6th Uhlan Regiment. One squadron was handed over to the 9th Hussar Regiment and replaced by a new 4th Squadron formed in the regiment. The Freikorps fought rather unsuccessfully in the Wars of Liberation , but as a prototype of an all-Prussian army had a high propaganda effect. From 1816 to 1823 the regiment name had the addition 2. West Prussian .

When the Baden Revolution and the Palatinate Uprising were put down in 1849, the regiment provided three squadrons of the reserve cavalry of the improvised 1st Army Corps under Moritz von Hirschfeld . In 1860 it was given the additional name Thuringian . In the same year, as part of the controversial army reform, the 4th squadron was transferred to the newly established Uhlan Regiment No. 11 , and in 1866 the 5th squadron was transferred to the newly established Uhlan Regiment No. 16 . In 1866 the regiment took part in the war against Austria as part of the 8th Infantry Division in the 1st Army Corps at the Battle of Königgrätz . In 1867 there was an increase to four squadrons. In 1870/71 in the war against France , it fought as part of the 9th Cavalry Brigade in the 4th Cavalry Division and took part in the Battle of Wörth , the battles at Haguenau and Steinburg , the bombardment of Marsal , the battle at Sedan , the enclosure of Paris , the Battle of Chartres , the Battle of Orléans , the Battle of Patay , the Battle of Loigny and Poupry , the Battle of Beaugency, and the Battle of Le Mans . During the First World War , the regiment was initially deployed on the Western Front . At the beginning of 1915 the regiment was divided into two half regiments, which, however, were deployed jointly in Serbia and Romania. In 1917 he returned to Germany to secure the coast in Schleswig. In 1918 police duties followed in northern Italy and finally courier and security duties on the western front. After the Compiègne armistice , the regiment was disbanded in 1919.

In the Reichswehr , the 4th Squadron of the 16th Cavalry Regiment took over the tradition of the Thuringian Uhlans. In Langensalza , the squadron's garrison, a memorial created by Heinrich Schwindsackl from local travertine was inaugurated in 1925 to commemorate those who fell in the regiment in the World War. As part of the armament of the Wehrmacht , the regiment was initially renamed the Erfurt Reiter Regiment in 1934, but was disbanded on October 15, 1935 and used as the trunk for the first three motorbike battalions , which were wiped out as tank reconnaissance in the course of the Second World War.

Appearance

Lützow cavalry in action 1813/14 (in the foreground two hussars, behind them hunters on horseback)

In the Wars of Liberation, the uniforms of the Lützow Cavalry were basically black, as this color was the only color that could be produced uniformly by coloring the various cloth stocks in the army depots and on the market. There were also red as the badge color of the advances and gold-colored brass buttons. Uhlans carried the Litewka , hussars Dolman and Mente . General were shako worn. The lance flags were black and red. The coincidentally created uniform colors are considered to be the origin of the "German tricolor " black-red-gold . This uniform was only replaced by the regular Prussian blue Koletts and Tschapkas after the Battle of Waterloo . As a line regiment, the former Lützowers wore ponceau red badges with white buttons. In 1860 the Ulanka replaced the Kolett and the regiment also wore the standard uniform of the Prussian Ulans. In 1903 the epaulettes were given the red crowned name "CR" of the regiment owner Christian IX. from Denmark.

organization

Position of the regiment in the army organization in 1914

Heads of regiments

Regiment chiefs were:

Commanders

  • 1815–1817 Lieutenant Colonel Adolf von Lützow
  • 1817–1825 Colonel Ludwig von Schmidt
  • 1825–1831 Colonel Friedrich von Szerdahely
  • 1831–1835 Colonel Karl Wilhelm von Waldow
  • 1835–1842 Colonel Nicodemus Joseph von Podbielski
  • 1842–1844 Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Stülpnagel
  • 1844–1850 Colonel Friedrich Wilhelm Chorus
  • 1850–1855 Colonel Eduard Collins
  • 1855–1857 Lieutenant Colonel Ludwig von Kotze
  • 1857–1864 Major / Lieutenant Colonel / Colonel Wasa von der Goltz
  • 1864–1870 Colonel August von Langermann and Erlenkamp
  • 1870–1877 Colonel Hugo von Knobloch
  • 1877–1883 ​​Colonel Arthur Zimmermann
  • 1883–1885 Lieutenant Colonel Adolph von Schoenfeldt
  • 1885–1888 Colonel Carl von Boehm
  • 1888–1892 Lieutenant Colonel Carl von Wenden
  • 1892-1893 Lieutenant Colonel Max von Schmidt
  • 1893–1896 Colonel Alexander Sieg
  • 1896–1897 Lieutenant Colonel Hermann von Stosch
  • 1897–1903 Colonel Georg von Fritsch
  • 1903–1906 Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Karl von Urach
  • 1906–1907 Lieutenant Colonel Gallus von Glaubitz and Altengabel
  • 1907–1908 Colonel Albert von Voss
  • 1908–1912 Colonel Paul Weinschenck
  • 1912–1914 Colonel Karl von Kaufmann
  • 1914–1915 Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm von Bettendorff
  • 1915 Colonel Karl von Kaufmann
  • 1915 Major Otto Baun (in charge of the tour)
  • 1916–1919 Lieutenant Colonel Franz Wuille di Bille

garrison

Known members of the regiment

literature

  • Hugo FW Schulz: The Prussian Cavalry Regiments 1913/1914. Weltbild, Augsburg 1992 (there page 148f)
  • Heinrich Bothe, History of the Thuringian Uhlan Regiment No. 6 , RV Decker, 1865, digitized