Cavalry Rifle Regiment
A Cavalry Rifle Regiment was in the First World War and for the trench warfare converted abgesessenes Cavalry - regiment .
It corresponded in his combat effectiveness as an infantry - battalion , his three or four shooters - squadrons each of the infantry companies . In addition, it had a machine gun squadron with six heavy machine guns and four mortars . A total of 51 cavalry regiments had to serve up by the spring of 1918; at the end of the war there were still 32 unridden or cavalry rifle regiments.
See also Cavalry Rifle Division .
As part of the establishment of light divisions , a number of cavalry rifle regiments were set up from autumn 1937. These regiments were formed, along with the motorcycle-Guard - departments , the infantry component of the Light divisions and were among the mobile troops . They consisted of two cavalry rifle divisions to three rifle squads, a heavy squadron with three 3.7 cm PaK 36 , two light infantry guns 18 and six heavy (later medium ) grenade launchers 34 .
With the conversion of the light divisions into armored divisions at the end of 1939 / beginning of 1940, the cavalry rifle regiments were converted into rifle regiments , which were later renamed as armored infantry regiments.
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- ^ Edgar Graf von Matuschka, Organization History of the Army 1890 to 1918 in: Military History Research Office (Ed.) German Military History in Six Volumes 1648-1939 Volume 3, Munich 1983, pp 157-311. ISBN 3-88199-112-3