9th Cavalry Division (German Empire)

9th Cavalry Division
active	August 1914 to March 3, 1918
Country	German Empire
Armed forces	Prussian Army
Type	Cavalry Division
structure	See: Outline
First World War	Western front Battle of Le Cateau Battle of Ypres Eastern Front Battle of Łódź

The 9th Cavalry Division was a major unit of the Prussian army in the First World War .

structure

• 13th Cavalry Brigade
  • Cuirassier Regiment "von Driesen" (Westphalian) No. 4
  • Hussar regiment "Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" (1st Westphalian) No. 8
• 14th Cavalry Brigade
  • 2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment No. 11
  • Westphalian Uhlan Regiment No. 5
• 18th Cavalry Brigade
  • Schleswig-Holstein Dragoon Regiment No. 13
  • Oldenburg Dragoon Regiment No. 19
• Riding division of the field artillery regiment "von Scharnhorst" (1st Hannoversches) No. 10
• MG department no.7
• Pioneer department

history

The division was formed as part of the mobilization at the beginning of the First World War , initially on the western and from mid-November 1914 on the eastern front. There it was dissolved on March 3, 1918.

Battle calendar

1914

• 0August 8-22 - Veiling battles in front of the front of the 1st and 2nd Armies in Belgium
• 23rd to 24th August - Battle of Mons
• August 25-27 - Battle of Solesmes and Le Cateau
• August 31st - Choisy-au-Bac and Compiègne advance
• 0September 1st - Battle at Villers-Cotterêts
• 0September 2 - Battle at Senlis
• 0September 3 to 4 - Battle at Crépy-en-Valois
• 0September 5th to 9th - Battle of Ourcq
• September 12th to 17th - fighting on the Aisne
• September 23-29 - Battle of the Somme
• September 30th to October 1st - Battle of Douai
• 0October 1st to 13th - Battle of Arras
• October 13th to November 4th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • October 15-28 - Battle of Lille
  • October 30th to November 4th - Battle of Ypres
• 0November 5th to 9th - transport to the east
• November 14-15 - Battle of Kutno
• November 16 to December 15 - Battle of Łódź
  • November 30th to December 17th - Battle of Lowicz - Sanniki
• from December 18th - Battle of the Rawka - Bzura

1915

• until July 16 - Battle of the Rawka-Bzura
• July 17th to August 5th - Battles for Warsaw
• 0August 8th to 18th - chase battles between the Vistula and the Bug
• August 19-25 - Battle of Bielsk
• August 26 - Pursuit battles on Swislocz and Naumka-Werecia
• 0September 1-8 - Battle of Nyemen
• 0September 9 to October 2 - Battle of Vilnius
• from October 3rd - trench warfare between Krewo - Smorgon - Narotschsee - Weretsch

1916

• until June 12th - positional battles between Krewo-Smorgon-Narotschsee-Tweretsch
• June 15 to July 15 - Fights on the Styr and Stochod
• from July 19 to December 1 - 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
• 0March 3 - Dissolution of the division

Commanders

Rank	Surname	date
Major general	Karl-Ulrich von Bülow	0August 1-7, 1914
Major general	Eberhard von Schmettow	0August 7, 1914 to June 11, 1915
Major general	Albert of Mutius	0September 9 to October 10, 1916
Major general	Udo von Selchow	October 11, 1916 to March 3, 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, 179.