General Command 65

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The General Command 65 (emerged from the Schmettow Cavalry Corps ) was a major unit of the army of the German Empire during the First World War .

structure

General Command 65 was a General Command z. b. V. ( General Command for Special Use ). These emerged from 1916 and were purely command posts; the military units were assigned to him as required.

history

The Lieutenant General Eberhard Count of Schmettow was on 31 August 1916, after the war entrance of Romania , the commander in Transylvania standing 3rd Cavalry Division appointed, the staff the following day the cavalry corps Schmettow was reorganized. To secure the right flank of the Kühne group , Schmettow's cavalry, consisting of 6th and 7th Cavalry Divisions , advanced in Wallachia via Craiova on to Bucharest .

The staff of his corps was transferred to the General Command z. BV No. 65 converted and transferred to the Western Front . In April 1917 his general command was involved in the Battle of the Aisne as the Sissonne Group in the 1st Army . At the end of May 1918, the Schmettow group took part in the 7th Army in the Third Aisne Battle , and later in the defensive battle between Marne and Vesle .

After the armistice of Compiègne , Schmettow marched back home with the remnants of his troops, where he submitted his resignation after the demobilization of his general command.

Commanding general

Rank Surname date
Lieutenant General Eberhard von Schmettow August 31, 1916 until the end of the war

literature

  • Hanns Möller: History of the knights of the order pour le mérite in the world war. Volume II: M-Z. Bernard & Graefe publishing house. Berlin 1935. pp. 268-271.
  • Karl-Friedrich Hildebrand, Christian Zweng: The knights of the order Pour le Mérite of the First World War. Volume 3: P-Z. Biblio Publishing House. Bissendorf 2011. ISBN 3-7648-2586-3 . Pp. 224-225.