1st Guard Cavalry Brigade (German Empire)

The 1st Guard Cavalry Brigade was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

history

The brigade was established in Berlin in July 1816 and it was subordinate to the Regiment of the Gardes du Corps and the Garde Hussar Regiment and, since 1821, the 1st Garde Landwehr Cavalry Regiment. From 1829 to 1866 the command was in Potsdam and then again in Berlin until it was dissolved in 1919. From 1866 the regiment of the Gardes du Corps and the Guard Cuirassier Regiment were subordinate to the brigade .

German war

During the war against Austria , the brigade was designated the 1st Heavy Cavalry Brigade under its commander, Prince Albrecht of Prussia . She fought on June 28 at Skalitz , on June 29 at Schweinschädel and on July 3, 1866 at Königgrätz .

Franco-German War

In the war against France , the brigade was used in the battles at Gravelotte , Sedan and from September 19, 1870 to January 28, 1871 in the enclosure and siege of Paris .

First World War

With the outbreak of the First World War , she was used in the Association of the Guard Cavalry Division and operated independently from April 9, 1917. It was dissolved in Berlin in 1919.

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Colonel / Major General	Heinrich von Knobelsdorff	July 1816 to March 27, 1819
Colonel / Major General	Friedrich Wilhelm of Brandenburg	March 28, 1819 to November 27, 1826
Colonel	Karl von Brauchitsch	November 28, 1826 to March 29, 1829 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel / Major General	Karl von Brauchitsch	March 30, 1829 to March 29, 1838
Major general	Adam von Tümpling	March 30, 1838 to March 29, 1844
Major General / Lieutenant General	August of Württemberg	March 30, 1844 to April 5, 1854
Major General / Lieutenant General	Friedrich Karl of Prussia	April 25, 1854 to February 18, 1857
Colonel	Emil von Czettritz and Neuhaus	February 19, 1857 to March 17, 1858
Colonel / Major General	Karl von Griesheim	March 18, 1858 to November 18, 1859
Colonel	Hermann von Alvensleben	November 19, 1859 to May 11, 1860 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel / Major General	Hermann von Alvensleben	May 12, 1860 to April 2, 1866
Colonel / Major General	Albrecht of Prussia	0April 3 to October 29, 1866
Colonel / Major General	Friedrich of Brandenburg	October 30, 1866 to October 10, 1871
Colonel	Buko from Krosigk	November 11th to December 7th, 1871 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel / Major General	Buko from Krosigk	0December 8, 1871 to June 14, 1875
Colonel / Major General	Hermann von Schenck	June 15, 1875 to March 21, 1882
Colonel / Major General	Karl von Alten	March 22, 1882 to March 7, 1887
Major general	Arthur von Frankenberg and Proschlitz	0March 8, 1887 to June 13, 1888
Colonel	Karl von Wedel	June 14, 1888 to February 18, 1889
Colonel	Clemens von Fürstenberg-Borbeck	February 19 to March 21, 1889 (in charge of the tour)
Colonel / Major General	Clemens von Fürstenberg-Borbeck	March 22, 1889 to May 13, 1890
Colonel / Major General	Eduard zu Salm-Horstmar	May 14, 1890 to October 17, 1894
Württ. Major General	Alfred von Sick	October 18, 1894 to August 17, 1897
Major general	Egbert Hoyer from Asseburg	August 18, 1897 to April 21, 1902
Major general	Wilhelm von Hohenau	April 22, 1902 to April 26, 1904
Major general	Hans von Boehn	January 27, 1904 to May 24, 1907
Colonel / Major General	Georg von der Marwitz	May 25, 1907 to March 1, 1911
Major general	Bolko from Roedern	0March 2, 1911 to March 31, 1913
Colonel / Major General	Felix von Bärensprung	0April 1, 1913 to August 3, 1918
Colonel	Eberhard von Arnim	0August 4, 1918 to January 19, 1919

literature

• Claus von Bredow : Historical ranking and master list of the German army. Verlag August Scherl, Berlin 1905, p. 175.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Curt Jany (ed.), Hermann Cron: History of the German Army in the World Wars 1914-1918. Military Publishing House Karl Siegismund, Berlin 1937 (History of the Royal Prussian Army and the German Imperial Army, Volume 5), p. 135.
2. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990, ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 , pp. 423-424.