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This hussar regiment is first mentioned as the Volunteer Elbe National Hussars Regiment.On 25 May 1814, the regiment's former militia status was cancelled and it was designated the 10th Hussars Regiment (1 Magdeburg), also popularly referred to as the Green Hussars from Aschersleben, and transferred to active status in the Prussian Army.
7th (1st Rhenish) Hussars "King William I" 7 March 1815: Bonn: VIII Army Corps: 8th (1st Westphalian) Hussars "Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" 7 March 1815: Paderborn, Neuhaus: VII Army Corps: 9th (2nd Rhenish) Hussars: 7 March 1815: Straßburg/Els. XV Army Corps: 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars: 19 November 1813: Stendal: IV Army Corps: 11th (2nd ...
Pages in category "Hussar regiments of the Prussian Army" ... 0–9. 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars; 11th Hussar Regiment (Germany) 12th (Thuringian) Hussars;
2nd Rhine Province Infantry Regiment, No. 28; 4th Magdeburg Infantry Regiment, No. 67; Attached to Division 8th Rhine Province Jäger Battalion; King's Hussar Regiment (1st Rhine), No. 7; Four batteries (two heavy, two light) of 8th Field-Artillery Regiment; 2nd Field-pioneer Company, 8th Corps, with entrenching tool-column
In the small town in what is now Saxony-Anhalt, which then belonged to the Kingdom of Prussia, his father was a cavalry officer commanding a squadron of the 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars. Friedrich Robert followed his father's footsteps, becoming an officer in the Hussars Regiment No. 1.
A Prussian garrison town since the 17th century, it hosted the 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars regiment from 1884. Stendal was the site of a Luftwaffe airfield in World War II, which had been the site of the first German Fallschirmjäger training school from 1936; the boxer Max Schmeling was trained as a paratrooper here in 1940/41.
He had attained such a reputation that the King ordered some officers of the Brandenburg and the Magdeburg cavalry regiments to join the Hussar Regiment Wartenberg, in order to perfect themselves in the cavalry service. In 1750 he received the Golmenglin estate in Zerbst (today a district of Grimme), which he sold with permission to Count von ...
Alvensleben enlisted in the Prussian cadet corps in 1911, and in 1918 joined the 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars Regiment, but did not fight in World War I. He was briefly a member in a paramilitary Freikorps unit in 1920. Between 1923 and July 1929, he was a member of the nationalist Der Stahlhelm organization. Upon the death of his father in ...