Higher Cavalry Command No. 4

The Higher Cavalry Command No. 4 (HKK No. 4) 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. HKK No. 4 under Lieutenant General Gustav von Hollen was used on the Western Front. In the 5th Army , it took part in the march between Thionville and Metz in part and the task of the Enlightenment had on the Maas route Mezieres - St. Mihiel perform as well as Carignan and Damvillers to proceed. Another aim of the investigation was to determine whether the Meuse below Verdun was heavily occupied, or whether French forces were advancing against the 4th and 5th Armies from there, via Verdun or between this fortress and Metz . The Higher Cavalry Command No. 4 was driven into the Estaires - Méteren area in mid-October in the course of the race to the sea to clear up the right wing of the army and then withdrawn to Lille , at the end of October it took part in the First Battle of Flanders and was then after the transition to trench warfare on December 23, 1914 dissolved.

organization

Association membership

1914 at the start of the war
- HKK No. 4 in the 5th Army , disbanded in December 1914

structure

Higher cavalry commander
Staff with chief of the general staff , 1st general staff officer , two adjutants and the commandant of the headquarters .

Subordinate troops

Two cavalry divisions were originally subordinate to HKK No. 4 :

Commanders

HKK	Rank	Surname	Beginning of the appointment	End of appointment	comment
HKK No. 4	Lieutenant General	Gustav von Hollen	0August 2, 1914	December 23, 1914

Web links

Senior cavalry commanders at www.deutsche-kriegsgeschichte.de (as of May 1, 2010)

literature

Hermann Cron: The organization of the German army in the world war. ES Mittler und Sohn, Berlin 1923, ( research and representations from the Reichsarchiv, issue 5, ZDB -ID 988364-2 ).
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

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

Individual evidence

↑ Reichsarchiv (ed.): The World War 1914–1918. First volume: The border battles in the west. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1925, pp. 73f.
↑ Reichsarchiv (ed.): The World War 1914–1918. First volume: The border battles in the west. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1925, p. 74.

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

[2] Reichsarchiv (ed.): The World War 1914–1918. First volume: The border battles in the west. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1925, pp. 73f.

[3] Reichsarchiv (ed.): The World War 1914–1918. First volume: The border battles in the west. ES Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1925, p. 74.