5th Cavalry Division (German Empire)

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The 5th Cavalry Division was a large unit of the Prussian Army .

structure

Division of war 1870/71

Organization of war during mobilization in 1914

history

The division was formed in 1859 for the duration of mobilization on the occasion of the Sardinian War . Even for the duration of the war against France , the large association was again mobile in 1870/71. Formed again as part of the mobilization at the beginning of World War I , the division was initially deployed on the Western Front and moved to the Eastern Front at the end of October 1914 . It remained there after the Peace of Brest-Litovsk and was finally dissolved on April 4, 1918.

Battle calendar

1914

  • 04th to 13th August - Border protection and reconnaissance battles in front of the army front on the Belgian-Luxembourg border
  • August 14th to 20th - Forced reconnaissance of enemy positions near Dinant
  • 23rd to 24th August - Battle of Namur
  • August 29-30 - Battle of St. Quentin
  • 0September 6-9 - Battle of the Petit Morin
  • September 18 to October 27 - Trench warfare in Champagne
  • October 27 to November 2 - transport to the east
  • 0November 3 to 5 - cavalry battles at the control room
  • 0November 9th - Cavalry fighting on the Warta
  • November 16 to December 15 - Battle of Łódź
  • November 30th to December 4th - Battle of Lask - Pabianice
  • from December 18th - Battle of the Rawka - Bzura

1915

  • until January 9th - Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
  • January 10th to February 17th - Reserve of the Southern Army
  • February 18th to 25th - fighting near Rozniatow
  • February 26 to March 2 - Fighting north of Stanislaw
  • 0March 6-23 - Battles near Harasimow, Zabokruki, Puzniki
  • March 24th to May 8th - trench warfare on the Dniester and on the Bessarabian border
  • 0May 9-13 - fighting between Dniester and Prut
  • May 14th to June 7th - trench warfare on the Prut
  • 0June 7th to 8th - advance over the Pruth
  • June 10th to 28th - Siege of Halicz by Gruppe Marschall
  • July 13th to August 28th - fighting in the Austro-Hungarian 1st Army
    • July 20-21 - Battle near Zdary
  • August 29th to 31st - capture of Kobryn , pursuit through the Pripet swamps
  • 0September 4-6 - Battle of Drohiczyn-Chomsk
  • 0September 8-15 - persecution to Pinsk
  • 0September 9 to October 10 - Battles on the Stochod
  • from October 1st - positional battle in the Pripet swamps

1916

  • Trench warfare in the Pripet swamps

1917

  • until December 1st - trench warfare in the Pripet swamps
  • 0December 2nd to 17th - ceasefire
  • from December 17th - armistice

1918

  • until February 18 - armistice
  • 0April 4th - Dissolution of the division

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Major general Emil von Czettritz and Neuhaus June 14th to July 25th, 1859
Lieutenant General Albert von Rheinbaben July 18, 1870 to May 22, 1871
Major general Karl von Ilsemann 0August 2 to October 26, 1914
Major general Fritz von Unger October 27 to December 25, 1914
Lieutenant General Ernst von Heydebreck December 26, 1914 to December 13, 1915
Dignity. Major general Eberhard von Hofacker December 14, 1915 to August 12, 1916
Major general Rudolf Rusche August 13 to September 18, 1916
Lieutenant General Fritz von Unger September 19, 1916 to January 30, 1917
Lieutenant General Adalbert von Wurmb January 31, 1917 to April 4, 1918

literature

  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reich Archives . Military publishing house, Berlin 1927, p. 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. 420.