Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

What is the abbreviation for the word "Herzog" in German?

Erzerzog is ER (or ERZ).

Is Herzog HR (or HRZ)?

Updating the Eckmuhl OB today and wanted to abbreviate the word if I could to save space.

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt, Austerlitz and ... more to come)
Not the President of the Musket and Cannon Club

Bill,

You may find this page useful

http://www.austro-hungarian-army.co.uk/hunggerm.htm

Colonel Al Amos
1ère Brigade Commandant, 2ème Division de Dragons "Gare aux Dragons!"
Ier Corps de Réserve de Cavalerie "Vae Victis!"
L'Armée du Nord

I'd seen Herzog used on the German Wikipedia site as "Hz." - however in checking on a dedicated abbreviation site -- it shows as :
Hzg.

http://abkuerzungen.woxikon.de/abkuerzung/herzog.php

On German language Wikipedia they are claiming that Erherzog is:
Ehzg. http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzherzog <s> there isn't anything on Erherzog showing on the dedicated abbrev site ( which is - very... "unGerman"... </s>

I take that back- I must have typed the word in wrong...

http://abkuerzungen.woxikon.de/abkuerzung/ehzg..php Ehzg.

Not much of a savings when you abbreviate-- but that's German for you.... they love combining words in that language ... like Goetterammerdung etc ... not shorten them.

Cadet S Trauth
Armée du Rhin
VI Corps,
19ème Division,
1ère Brigade,
1ère Lieb Régiment[8D]

Hzg. and Ehzg. or Erzhzg. are the most common abbreviations.

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Thanks guys. Really helps!

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt, Austerlitz and ... more to come)
Not the President of the Musket and Cannon Club

Question: I have also seen ER on the horse furniture as well and in other places. That is normally how I abbreviate Archduke.

Does anyone see an error with that?

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt, Austerlitz and ... more to come)
Not the President of the Musket and Cannon Club

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I thought ER is Elisabeth Regina. Never seen it as an abbreviation of Erzherzog. German abbreviations tend to use letters from all over the word (H[er]z[o]g), not the first two.

The proper abbreviation in German is definitely Ehzg., unless you like the somewhat longer Erzhzg. Take my word on it. I have studied this stuff half my life.

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~ 2nd Dragoons (Royal Scots Greys) ~
2nd (Union) Brigade, Cavalry Division, Anglo-Allied II Corps
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~ 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards ~
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Bill, Elizabeth Regina is immediately what I thought of too when I read ER.

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Thanks much guys.

Colonel Bill Peters
Armee du Rhin - V Corps, Cavalerie du V Corps, 20ème légère Brigade de Cavalerie, 13ème Hussar Regiment
HPS Napoleonic Scenario Designer (Eckmuhl, Wagram, Jena-Auerstaedt, Austerlitz and ... more to come)
Not the President of the Musket and Cannon Club