Guard Cavalry Division (German Empire)

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The Guard Cavalry Division was a large unit and the only cavalry division of the Prussian Army in peace .

structure

The division was part of the Guard Corps .

Peace structure 1914

Division of war on August 2, 1914

  • 1st Guards Cavalry Brigade
    • Regiment of the Gardes du Corps
    • Guard Cuirassier Regiment
  • 2nd Guards Cavalry Brigade
    • 1st Guard Uhlan Regiment
    • 3rd Guard Uhlan Regiment
  • 3rd Guards Cavalry Brigade
    • 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment "Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland"
    • 2nd Guard Dragoon Regiment "Empress Alexandra of Russia"
  • Equestrian Division / 1st Guard Field Artillery Regiment
  • Guard machine gun division
  • Guard pioneer department

history

The Guard Cavalry Division was budgeted on November 19, 1859 and emerged from the Guard Cavalry Brigade formed on August 9, 1813. The command was in Berlin .

First World War

Battle calendar

1914
  • 04th to 13th August - Border protection and reconnaissance battles in front of the army front on the Belgian-Luxembourg border
  • August 14-20 - Forced reconnaissance of the enemy positions near Dinant
  • 23rd to 24th August - Battle of Namur
  • August 29-30 - Battle of St. Quentin (1914)
  • 0September 6-9 - Battle of the Petit Morin
  • September 12 to 16 - St. Erme, Juvincourt, La Ville-aux-Bois, Prouvais
  • September 13-22 - fighting on the Aisne
  • 0October 1st to 13th - Battle of Arras
  • 0October 9th - enforcement of the passage over the channel of La Bassée near Don
  • October 11th - Storming of La Bassée
  • 13. Taking Givenchy
  • October 13th to November 8th - Trench warfare in Flanders and Artois
  • 0November 9th to 30th - Battle of the Yser
  • from December 1st - trench warfare on the Yser
1915
  • until April 21st - trench warfare on the Yser
  • April 22nd to May 25th - Fighting for Ypres
  • May 26th to June 26th - Trench warfare on the Yser
  • 0July 2nd to 15th - transport to the east
  • July 16-18 - breakthrough battle of Krasnostav
  • July 19-28 - fighting following the breakthrough battle of Krasnostav
  • July 29-30 - Breakthrough Battle of Biskupice
  • July 31 to August 19 - chase battles from Wieprz to Bug
  • August 19-28 - Army Groups - Reserve
  • August 29-30 - battle near Kobrin
  • August 31 to September 15 - Army Group Reserve
  • September 19 to 24 - Fighting on the Upper Shchara- Vervech
  • September 25th to October 3rd - trench warfare on the upper Shchara-Servetsch
  • from October 1st - positional battle in the Pripjet swamps
1916
  • Trench warfare in the Pripjet swamps
1917
  • until December 1st - trench warfare in the Pripet swamps
  • 0December 2nd to 17th - ceasefire
  • from December 17th - armistice
1918

Commanders

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant colonel Hans Ernst Christoph von Werder 0August 9 to September 20, 1813
Lieutenant colonel Friedrich von La Roche-Starkenfels September 21, 1813 to December 21, 1816
Colonel Heinrich Ludwig Georg von Knobelsdorff December 22, 1816 to September 13, 1826
Friedrich Wilhelm Count of Brandenburg November 28, 1826 to March 29, 1838
Karl von Brauchitsch March 30, 1838 to March 29, 1844
Major General / Lieutenant General Adam von Tümpling March 30, 1844 to December 13, 1848
Major general Franz Heinrich von Waldersee December 14, 1848 to August 4, 1856
Lieutenant General August of Württemberg 0August 5, 1856 to June 13, 1859
Major general Gustav Adolf von Schlemüller June 14, 1859 to September 15, 1862
Major general Karl von der Goltz September 16, 1862 to January 23, 1863 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Karl von der Goltz January 24, 1863 to March 8, 1866
Lieutenant General Hermann von Alvensleben March 10, 1866 to January 13, 1868
Major General / Lieutenant General Karl Friedrich von der Goltz January 14, 1868 to October 30, 1872
Lieutenant General Wilhelm of Brandenburg October 31, 1872 to August 29, 1882
Major general Wilhelm von Winterfeldt August 30 to November 20, 1882 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Wilhelm von Winterfeldt November 21, 1882 to November 14, 1887
Lieutenant General Karl von Alten November 15, 1887 to December 22, 1889
Lieutenant General Maximilian of verses December 23, 1889 to March 23, 1890
Lieutenant General Ernst von der Planitz March 24, 1890 to June 13, 1895
Lieutenant General Alexander von Wartensleben June 14, 1895 to June 9, 1899
Lieutenant General Walther von Moßner June 10, 1899 to May 17, 1901
Lieutenant General Richard von Winterfeld May 18, 1901 to December 21, 1904
Lieutenant General Arthur von Klinckowström December 22, 1904 to September 1, 1907
Lieutenant General Alfred zu Dohna-Schlobitten 0September 2, 1907 to September 22, 1911
Lieutenant General Friedrich von Hertzberg September 23, 1911 to February 17, 1913
Lieutenant General Manfred von Richthofen February 18 to December 3, 1913
Major general Raimund of Pelet-Narbonne 0February 3 to April 21, 1914 (in charge of the tour)
Lieutenant General Raimund of Pelet-Narbonne April 22 to June 19, 1914
Lieutenant General Adolf von Storch June 19 to September 23, 1914
Major general Günther von Etzel September 24 to November 30, 1914 (entrusted with the tour)
Lieutenant General Adolf von Storch 0December 1, 1914 to February 21, 1918
Major General / Lieutenant General Heinrich von Hofmann February 22 to December 5, 1918

See also

literature

  • Hubert von Meyerinck: The Royal Prussian Guard Hussar Regiment and its descent. 1811-1869. Eduard Döring, 1869 digitized
  • Hall of Fame of our Old Army. Published on the basis of official material from the Reichsarchiv , Militär-Verlag, Berlin 1927, pp. 77, 174.
  • Histories of Two Hundred and Fifty-One Divisions of the German Army Which Participated in the War (1914-1918). United States War Office as War Department Document No. 905, Office of the Adjutant, 1920, p. 29.

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 , pp. 412-413.