6th Cavalry Rifle Division

6th Cavalry Rifle Division
active	May 1, 1918 to December 19, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Cavalry Rifle Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front

The 6th Cavalry Rifle Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

Division of War of May 3, 1918

• 170th Landwehr Infantry Brigade
• Cavalry Rifle Command No. 3
  • Cuirassier Regiment "Queen" (Pomeranian) No. 2
  • Thuringian Hussar Regiment No. 12
  • 2nd Pomeranian Uhlan Regiment No. 9
• Cavalry Rifle Command No. 5
  • Cuirassier regiment "von Seydlitz" (Magdeburg) No. 7
  • 1st Brandenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 2
  • Uhlan regiment "Emperor Alexander II of Russia" (1st Brandenburg) No. 3
• Cavalry Rifle Command No. 45
  • Hussar regiment "King Humbert of Italy" (1st Kurhessisches) No. 13
  • Hunter Regiment on Horseback No. 13
  • Reserve Dragoon Rifle Regiment No. 7
  • 5th Squadron / King's Uhlan Regiment (1st Hannoversches) No. 13
• Artillery Commander No. 133
  • Field Artillery Regiment zbV. No. 11
  • IV. Department / Field Artillery Regiment "General Feldzeugmeister" (1st Brandenburg) No. 3
  • IV. And V division / 1st Kurhessisches Feldartillerie-Regiment No. 11
• Engineer Battalion No. 420
• Division News Commander # 906

history

On May 1, 1918, the large formation was transformed from the 6th Cavalry Division to the 6th Cavalry Rifle Division and in the last year of the war came exclusively on the Western Front .

Battle calendar

1918

• May 1st to July 5th --- Position battle in Upper Alsace
• July 5th to September 9th --- Trench warfare in Flanders
  • August 28th to September 4th --- Fighting in front of the Ypres - La Bassee front
• September 10 to 27 --- Defensive battle between Cambrai and St. Quentin
• 28 September to 17 October --- Defensive battle in Flanders
• October 18 to 24 --- rearguard battles between Yser and Lys
• October 25th to November 1st --- Battle of the Lys
• November 2nd to 4th --- Rearguard fighting on both sides of the Scheldt
• November 12th to December 19th --- Evacuation of the occupied territory and march home

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major general	Georg Saenger	May 1, 1918 to January 22, 1919

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, 178.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dermot Bradley (ed.), Günter Wegner: Occupation of the German Army 1815-1939. Volume 1: The higher command posts 1815–1939. Biblio Publishing House. Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1780-1 . P. 420.