4th Cavalry Division (German Empire)
4th Cavalry Division |
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active | August 2, 1914 to January 1919 |
Country | German Empire |
Armed forces | Prussian Army |
Type | Cavalry Division |
structure | See: Outline |
First World War | Western front |
The 4th Cavalry Division was a large unit of the Prussian Army , which was formed as part of mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War in 1859, the Franco-German War in 1870/71 and the First World War in 1914/18.
structure
Organization of war during mobilization in 1914
- 3rd Cavalry Brigade
- 17th Cavalry Brigade
- 18th Cavalry Brigade
- Riding division / field artillery regiment "General-Feldzeugmeister" (1st Brandenburg) No. 3
- Guard machine gun division No. 2
- Pioneer department
Division of War of June 10, 1918
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39th Cavalry Brigade
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 38
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 40
- Landwehr Infantry Regiment No. 436
- Artillery Commander No. 143
First World War
Initially, the division was deployed on the Western Front and moved to the Eastern Front in early November 1914 . There she remained in action after the peace of Brest-Litovsk and took part in the struggles for the liberation of Livonia and Estonia . At the end of March 1918, the division moved again to the Western Front and fought there until the end of the war.
1914
- Liège August 4th to 16th - Conquest of
- 1st and 2nd armies in Belgium 2nd to 22nd August - veiling battles in front of the front of the
- 23rd to 24th August - Battle of Mons
- August 24th - capture of Tournai
- August 25-27 - Battle of Solesmes and Le Cateau
- Battle at Néry September 1, 1914 -
- September 23 to October 1 - Battle of the Somme
- October 1st to 13th - Battle of Arras
- October 13th to 31st - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
- October 30th to November 4th - South of Messines and on the Ploegsteert forest
- November 1st to 16th - transport to the east
- November 15-29 - trench warfare near Mlawa
- 9th Army Reserve December 1-24 -
- from December 18th - Battle of the Rawka - Bzura
1915
- until February 5th - Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
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Winter battle in Masuria
- 11 February to 22 March - trench warfare in front of Lomsha- Osowiec (parts of the division)
February 5th to 22nd - - February 23 to March 6 - Battles on Bobr
- March 6-21 - Trench warfare at Lipniki-Lyse
- March 25-30 - Skirmishes near Krasnopol and Krasne
- March 31 to May 13 - trench warfare between Augustow, Mariampol and Pilwiszki
- May 9th to July 13th - Battles on the Windawski Canal and on the Upper Windau
- July 21st to August 7th - fighting at the Jesia and Wejwery (parts of the division)
- Kovno August 1st to 18th - Siege of
- August 19 to September 8 - Battle of Nyemen
- Battle of Vilnius September 9-29 -
- September 30th to October 19th - Battles on the Mjadsjolka, Dryswjata and around Kosjany
- October 20th to November 1st - Battle of Dünaburg
- October 20 to November 5 - trench warfare in front of Jakobstadt
- from November 1st - trench warfare in front of Dünaburg
1916
- Position battles in front of Dünaburg
1917
- until February 1st - trench warfare in front of Dünaburg
- 23 January to 3 February - Winter battle on the Aa (parts of the division)
- Riga February 1 to August 31 - trench warfare in front of
- Battle of Riga (parts of the division) September 1-5 -
- September 6th to December 5th - trench warfare north of the Daugava
- 6-17 - Truce December
- from December 17th - armistice
1918
- until February 18 - armistice
- February 18 to March 4 - Fighting for the liberation of Livonia and Estonia
- March 5 to April 1 - Livonia and Estonia are occupied as German police forces
- March 21 to April 5 - transport to the west
- Lorraine and the Vosges April 6 to May 5 - Trench warfare in
- May 19 to November 11 - trench warfare in Upper Alsace
- from November 12th - evacuation of the occupied territory and march home
Commanders
Rank | Surname | date |
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Lieutenant General | Karl Albert von Rudolphi | June 14 to November 18, 1859 |
General of the cavalry | Albrecht of Prussia | July 18, 1870 |
Lieutenant General | Otto von Garnier | August 2 to November 22, 1914 |
Major general | Heinrich von Hofmann | November 23, 1914 to August 30, 1916 |
Major general | Georg Thumb from Neuburg | August 31, 1916 to October 14, 1918 |
Major general | Viktor von Rosenberg-Lipinski | October 15, 1918 to January 1919 |
literature
- Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 78, 177.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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. 419.