"Red German Hussars" Topic
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| Lilian | 05 Feb 2025 10:28 a.m. PST |
I saw two unusual contemporary sketches of red Hussars in 1870, but one really all red including until the breeches given as full dress uniform grande tenue (the other with white breeches) The Hussars of the Guard and both Hussaren regiments nr 3 and 5 had also red breeches, and can be all red clothed? the red prince, with the uniform of Hussars of the Guard I assume
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all the pictures represent them usually to not say only in grey or blue-black pantalons…
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| NapStein | 11 Feb 2025 5:10 a.m. PST |
Hussar officers of the Prussian army only had colored breeches for the "court gala dress" (Hofgala-Dress) until 1868 (introduction of the blue-black breeches with silver or gold laces). Only the officers of the guard hussars and the generals as chef or à la suite of the line hussar regiments still wore the colored breeches. These colors were: Line Hussars 4, 9, 12, 13 and 16 => corn flower blue
Guard Hussars, Line Hussars 3, 8, 14 and 15 => dark blue
Line Hussars 1, 2 and 5 => black
Line Hussars 6 and 7 => ponceau red
Line Hussars 10 => pompadour red
Line Hussars 11 => corn flower blue until 1862, afterwards ponceau red Greetings from Berlin
Markus Stein |
| Lilian | 12 Feb 2025 2:00 p.m. PST |
Thank you very much Markus, such all-red Hussar was drawn in a depot of German POW in 1870 |
| NapStein | 13 Feb 2025 4:50 a.m. PST |
That's strange – a prisoner or guard the officer's court gala uniform – I may only think about Versailles at the 18th of January 1871 for such a purpose; or these are breeches as a replacement of the ordinary trousers? Greetings
Markus Stein |
| Lilian | 13 Feb 2025 2:23 p.m. PST |
Dépôt de Prisonniers Allemands of Pau in the Pyrénées in november 1870…
8 officers and 896 soldiers in this place, Prussians, Bavarians…
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| NapStein | 15 Feb 2025 4:52 a.m. PST |
Very interesting and curious images … I'll do some more research in the regimental histories. Greetings
Markus Stein |
 Old Contemptible  | 15 Apr 2025 12:45 a.m. PST |
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| Lilian | 15 Apr 2025 6:34 a.m. PST |
I know some of these pictures but I didn't see any ALL RED Hussar I realize that even the cap is weird I don't understand what he is wearing, it is not the colback and this doesn't look like either the usual undress cap (the man below the head has nothing to do with the topic, he is only a civilian from Baden and probably interned with military POW's in the same depot) link
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| Old Contemptible | 15 Apr 2025 10:47 p.m. PST |
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| NapStein | 18 Apr 2025 6:33 a.m. PST |
Thank you for the link to Gallica, Lilian! I still think that the red trousers were not the regular ones worn by the Prussian hussars; perhaps a French model as replacement? The cap also looks strange and reminds me of French fatigue caps. Obviously the German POW wore a curious mixture of clothes. Greetings from Berlin
Markus Stein |
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