Von Mackensen He had commanded of the Prussian 1. Leib-Husaren-Regiment No. 1 (1st Life Hussars Regiment No. 1)Head Hussars (Totenkopfhusaren Death's) (Busby) is the English name for the (Hungarian premes csako or kucsma), a military head-dress made of fur, worn by Hungarian hussars. The popularity of this military headdress in its hussar form reached a height in the years immediately before World War I. It was widely worn in the British (hussars, yeomanry, and horse artillery), German, Russian, Spanish, (hussars), Dutch (cavalry and artillery), Belgian (Guides and field artillery), Bulgarian (Life Guards), Romanian (cavalry), Austro-Hungarian (Hungarian generals), Serbian (Royal Guards), and Italian (light cavalry) armies.Possibly the name's original sense of a "busby wig" came from association with Dr Richard Busby, headmaster of Westminster School in the late seventeenth century; the later phrase buzz wig may have been derived from busby.