As with all other cavalry regiments in the German military establishment, the 2 Chevauleger has a Colonel-in-Chief. This position was an honorific one and entailed the performance of no actual military duties and the practice still lingers on today, most notably in the British Army. During the later Kaiserzeit and into the First World War, the Colonel-in-Chief was Albert, the 8th Prince of the House of Thurn und Taxis. Albert's full name was Albert Maria Joseph Maximilian Lamoral Fürst von Thurn und Taxis and he was born on May 8, 1867 at Regensburg and died on January 22 1952 in the same place. He was styled the Eighth Prince of Thurn and Taxis and Head of the Princely House of Thurn and Taxis from 2 June 1885 until his death on 22 January 1952.
Below is a portrait of him, c. 1916:
Below is a portrait of him, c. 1916:
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