Higher Cavalry Command No. 2

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The Higher Cavalry Command No. 2 (HKK No. 2) was an association formed at the beginning of the First World War in the German army to lead the army cavalry at the corps management level . However, it was not referred to as a corps because it had no corps troops.

Lineup

During the mobilization in 1914, four higher cavalry commands (HKK No. 1 to No. 4) were formed, under which the cavalry divisions that were only set up in the event of war from parts of the divisional cavalry and the mounted divisions of the field artillery were combined as rapid large formations. The HKK No. 2 under General der Kavallerie Georg von der Marwitz was deployed on the Western Front and took part in the battle at Haelen on August 12, 1914 and in the battle of Le Cateau on August 26 . After participating in the race to the sea and the transition to trench warfare in the Battle of Flanders , the Higher Cavalry Command No. 2 was dissolved on December 23, 1914.

organization

Association membership

  • 1914 at the start of the war
    • HKK No. 2 in the 2nd Army , dissolved in December 1914

structure

Subordinate troops

Three cavalry divisions were subordinate to HKK No. 2

Commanders

HKK Rank Surname Beginning of the appointment End of appointment comment
HKK No. 2 General of the cavalry Georg von der Marwitz 0August 2, 1914 December 23, 1914 previously inspector general of the cavalry, then commanding general of the XXXVIII. Reserve Corps

Web links

literature

  • Hermann Cron: The organization of the German army in the world war , 5th issue of the research and representations from the Reichsarchiv , ES Mittler and son, Berlin. 1923
  • Walter Brenken: Use of cavalry according to the lessons to be learned from war history , Berlin 1928
  • Alfred Satter: The German cavalry in the First World War , Books on Demand GmbH Norderstedt, 2004, ISBN 3-8334-1564-9 [1]

Remarks

  1. The position of higher cavalry commander was also abbreviated to HKK.