Guards Cuirassiers (Prussia)

The Guards Cuirassiers (German: Garde-Kürassier-Regiment) were a heavy cavalry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army. Formed in 1815 as an Uhlans regiment, it was reorganized as a cuirassiers unit in 1821. The regiment was part of the Guards Cavalry Division and fought in the Second Schleswig War, the Austro-Prussian War, the Franco-Prussian War and World War I. The regiment was disbanded in September 1919.

Ferdinand Rogalla von Bieberstein in the parade uniform of the Guards Cuirassiers

See also

• List of Imperial German cavalry regiments

References

• Schulz, Hugo (1992). Die preussischen Kavallerie-Regimenter 1913/1914 nach dem Gesetz vom 3. Juli 1913. Augsburg: Weltbild. pp. 12–13. ISBN 3893503439.

External links

• http://www.kuerassierregimenter.de/ Archived 2021-05-01 at the Wayback Machine