7th Mounted Rifles
The fighter regiment on horseback No. 7 was a cavalry unit in the army of the German Empire.
Association membership
- VIII Corps Koblenz - Commanding General: Major General Tülff of Tschepe and Weidenbach
- 16th Division Trier - Commander: Lieutenant General von Lindenau
- 16th Cavalry Brigade Trier - Commander: Colonel Kleemann mdFb
- Regimental commander: Major Freiherr von Tettau
- Garrison: Jägerkaserne Trier
- Foundation Day of the regiment: October 1, 1913
List
With the All-Highest - Cabinet -Order ( AKO ) from September 4, 1913 October 1, 1913, the formation of a regiment was ordered hunters on horseback with the number 7.
To this end, each had to make a squadron:
- The Hussar Regiment No. 3
- The Hussar Regiment No. 11
- The Hussar Regiment No. 16
- The fighter regiment on horseback # 2
- The Uhlan Regiment No. 13
At the beginning of the First World War, the hunters moved in the Association of 16th Cavalry Brigade (together with the hunters on horseback Regiment No. 8), first to the West, in order to be transferred to the Eastern Front in the spring of 1915 where the regiment was his task used in accordance with the patrol, security and intelligence services. Until the end of 1917 it was in Russian Poland, to be subsequently used in the Kiev area in the security service. After the war, the regiment moved, sometimes in combat with insurgents, back to Germany. On 21 February 1919, the hunters arrived in Meppen, where the unit was then demobilized and disbanded.
The Hunters Regiment on horseback No. 7 had kept his cavalry status until dissolved.
The tradition resulted in the Reichswehr, the 3rd Squadron of the 9th ( Prussian ) Reiter- Regiment in Beeskow.
Uniform
The uniform was modeled after the style of the cuirassiers. The tunic was gray with green Swedish cuffs. Collar, cuffs and forays were light green, pink color, however the badges, buttons, white, black boots and leather stuff. The helmet like the cuirassiers, but blackened sheet with Dragoon Eagle as an ornamental. Mount rails, eagles and tip were made of nickel silver, the chinscales Tombak. On the epaulettes there was the regimental number. This regiment was the first of the new formations that bore no Cuirassier but dragoon boots.