2nd Cavalry Division (German Empire)

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2nd Cavalry Division

active August 2, 1914 to June 1919
Country German EmpireThe German Imperium German Empire
Armed forces Prussian Army
Type Cavalry Division
structure See: Outline
First World War Western front
Battle of Solesmes and Le Cateau

Eastern Front

The 2nd Cavalry Division was a large unit of the Prussian Army that existed for the duration of the mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War in 1859, the German War in 1866, the War against France in 1870/71 and the First World War .

structure

1866

  • 3rd Heavy Cavalry Brigade
  • 2nd Light Cavalry Brigade
  • 3rd Light Cavalry Brigade

1870/71

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

Division of War of January 10, 1918

Battle calendar

The division was formed at the beginning of the First World War as part of mobilization and was initially deployed on the Western Front. At the beginning of November 1914 it was relocated to the Eastern Front . It remained there until the end of 1916, when it was moved to the west to secure the Belgian-Dutch border and returned to the eastern front in mid-September 1917. Here she was also in action after the peace of Brest-Litovsk and took part in the fighting in support of Ukraine . The evacuation of the occupied territories there was only completed after the end of the war in March 1919.

1914

1915

  • until June 2nd - trench warfare near Mlawa
  • 0June 3 to July 13 - Battles on the Windawski Canal and on the Upper Windau
  • July 14th to 25th - Battle of Schaulen
  • July 30th to August 7th - Battle of Kupischky
  • August 12th to 19th - Battle of Shimanzy-Ponedeli
  • 05th to 8th September - Lojan, Daudsewas and an der Lauze
  • 0September 5th to 28th - Battles against Jakobstadt
  • September 24th to October 19th - Battles on the Myadsjolka and Dryswjata
  • from October 20th - positional battles between Naroch and Dryswjaty lakes

1916

  • to 9 August - positional battles between Naroch and Drysvyaty lakes
  • 0August 9th to 24th - Upper East Reserve
  • August 25 to October 5 - fighting north of Zborow (parts of the division)
  • 25 August to 21 November - Trench warfare west of Brody
  • November 22nd to December 8th - March from Galicia to Romania
  • 0December 9-20 - Persecution battles on Jalomita -Prohava and Bazaul
  • from December 20 - reserve of the OHL and transport to the west

1917

  • to January 10th - Reserve of the OHL and transport to the west
  • 11 January to 10 September - Border patrol on the Belgian-Dutch border
  • 0September 1 to 10 - transport to the east
  • September 11th to December 1st - fighting on the upper Styr - Stochod
  • 0December 1st to 17th - Truce
  • from December 27th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to June 21 - fighting in support of Ukraine
  • June 22nd to November 15th - Occupation of Ukraine
  • from November 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

1919

  • until March 16 - evacuation of Ukraine

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Karl von der Goltz June 14 to November 18, 1859
Major general Benno Hann von Weyhern 0May 8 to September 16, 1866
Lieutenant General Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode July 18, 1870 to May 22, 1871
Lieutenant General z. D. Friedrich von Krane 0August 2 to September 15, 1914
Major general Georg Thumb from Neuburg September 15, 1914 to August 30, 1916
Major general Günther von Etzel August 31, 1916 to May 10, 1917
Major general Karl Leopold von der Goltz May 11, 1917 until the end of the war

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military Publishing House. Berlin 1927. pp. 78, 175-176.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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 , p. 418.