4th Cavalry Division (German Empire)

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4th Cavalry Division

active August 2, 1914 to January 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

Winter battle in Masuria

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

Division of War of June 10, 1918

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

1915

  • until February 5th - Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
  • 0February 5th to 22nd - Winter battle in Masuria
    • 11 February to 22 March - trench warfare in front of Lomsha- Osowiec (parts of the division)
  • February 23 to March 6 - Battles on Bobr
  • 0March 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
  • 0May 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)
  • 0August 1st to 18th - Siege of Kovno
  • August 19 to September 8 - Battle of Nyemen
  • 0September 9-29 - Battle of Vilnius
  • 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)
  • 0February 1 to August 31 - trench warfare in front of Riga
  • 0September 1-5 - Battle of Riga (parts of the division)
  • 0September 6th to December 5th - trench warfare north of the Daugava
  • 0December 6-17 - Truce
  • from December 17th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • February 18 to March 4 - Fighting for the liberation of Livonia and Estonia
  • 0March 5 to April 1 - Livonia and Estonia are occupied as German police forces
  • March 21 to April 5 - transport to the west
  • 0April 6 to May 5 - Trench warfare in Lorraine and the Vosges
  • 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
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 0August 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

  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. 419.