7th Royal Bavarian Cavalry Brigade
The 7th Cavalry Brigade was a large unit of the Bavarian Army that was set up in Transylvania during the First World War . In 1916 she was part of the 3rd Cavalry Division and was on the Putna (Moldovan theater of war) in January 1917. In March 1918 she operated as an occupation force in eastern Ukraine as part of the 2nd Cavalry Division .
history
1916/17
The brigade was formed on May 26, 1916. You were under the 4th and 5th Chevaulegers Regiments .
Taking advantage of the difficult situation of the Axis powers, Romania invaded Transylvania in early September 1916. For defense, the brigade was combined with the 1st Royal Saxon Hussar Regiment "King Albert" No. 18 to form the 3rd Cavalry Division and immediately thrown onto the hillside east of Sibiu . There the brigade repulsed three Romanian battalions on September 10th , which were flanked by their artillery. On September 26th she was on the march when she was attacked in the flank by parts of the Romanian 2nd Army near the upper reaches of the Alt. The brigade threw itself against the far superior enemy and deceived them for several days about their numerical inferiority, so that the battle for Sibiu could be successfully fought by the infantry of the 9th Army . On September 30, 1916, she took part in the pursuit of the Romanian troops over the mountain ranges, breaking up a Romanian cavalry regiment. While the divisions of the 9th Army advanced east, the 3rd Cavalry Division moved on October 7th to the northern flank of the army and drove the remnants of the Romanian troops back over the border passes.
At the beginning of November 1916 the brigade was relocated to Kronstadt and on the 2nd was named the "German-Transylvania Cavalry Brigade". At the beginning of December 1916 it was used between the Törzburger Pass and Predeal Pass , where it stormed an important position. After taking the Altschanz Pass, the brigade was replaced by a Prussian infantry division and relocated to the plains of Wallachia southeast of Ploesti until December 7th . On the right flank of the 12th Infantry Division they pushed the Russian-Romanian troops over the Buzaul until December 15, 1916, and back to the Putna by the end of the year .
1918/19
While the bulk of the Bavarian units were relocated to the west for the Great Battle of France , the brigade remained in the east. She marched together with the 4th Cavalry Brigade first into the Ukraine. In the fight against Bolshevik revolutionaries, the brigade came via Kiev (March 11, 1918), Poltava (March 29) and Kharkov (April 8) to the Rostov - Moscow railway line near Konstantinovka (May 9). In June 1918 she returned to Kovno and Volhynia . In August 1918 the brigade was marched to Tbilisi , the capital of the newly founded state of Georgia . After the armistice , they had to force their way hundreds of kilometers through some very hostile states. It did not reach home until the spring of 1919, when the brigade was demobilized and then disbanded.
Commanders
| Rank | Surname | date |
|---|---|---|
| Lieutenant colonel | Joseph von Tannsten called Fleischmann | July 29 to December 3, 1917 |
| Lieutenant colonel | Otto von Eyb | December 3, 1917 until the end of the war |
literature
- Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen , Friedrichfranz Feeser : The Bavaria book of the world wars 1914-1918. Chr. Belser AG. Publishing house, Stuttgart 1930.
- Günter Wegner: Germany's armies until 1918. Volume 10: Bavaria. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1984.
- Rudolf von Kramer, Otto Freiherr von Waldenfels: The royal Bavarian military Max-Joseph-Order. Self-published by the kb Militär-Max-Joseph-Order, Munich 1966.
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. 705.