List of Imperial German cavalry regiments
This is a List of Imperial German cavalry regiments[1] before and during World War I. In peacetime, the Imperial German Army included 110 regiments of cavalry. Some of these regiments had a history stretching back to the 17th century[2] but others were only formed as late as October 1913.[3]
On mobilisation, they were joined by 33 reserve cavalry regiments, 2 landwehr cavalry regiments and 1 ersatz cavalry regiment was also formed.[4] Also on mobilisation, there were 38 landwehr squadrons (assigned to the mixed landwehr brigades) and 19 ersatz detachments (assigned to the mixed ersatz brigades).
Pre-war regiments
| Regiment | Raised[5] | Garrison | Corps |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gardes du Corps | 23 June 1740 | Potsdam | Guards Corps[6] |
| Guards Cuirassiers | 21 February 1815 | Berlin | Guards Corps |
| 1st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy Cavalry | 31 October 1849 | Dresden | XII Army Corps[7] |
| Carabiniers (2nd Royal Saxon Heavy Cavalry) | 1 November 1849 | Borna | XIX Army Corps[8] |
| 1st Royal Bavarian Heavy Cavalry "Prince Charles of Bavaria" | 16 July 1814 | Munich | I Royal Bavarian Corps[9] |
| 2nd Royal Bavarian Heavy Cavalry "Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria" | 24 September 1815 | Landshut | I Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 1st (Silesian) Life Cuirassiers "Great Elector" | 1 July 1674 | Breslau | VI Army Corps[10] |
| 2nd (Pomeranian) Cuirassiers “Queen” | 2 April 1717 | Pasewalk | II Army Corps[11] |
| 3rd (East Prussian) Cuirassiers "Count Wrangel" | 19 April 1717 | Königsberg | I Army Corps[12] |
| 4th (Westphalian) Cuirassiers "von Driesen" | 19 April 1717 | Münster | VII Army Corps[13] |
| 5th (West Prussian) Cuirassiers "Duke Frederick Eugene of Württemberg" | 19 April 1717 | Riesenburg | XX Army Corps[14] |
| 6th (Brandenburg) Cuirassiers "Emperor Nicholas I of Russia" | 20 December 1691 | Brandenburg | III Army Corps[15] |
| 7th (Magdeburg) Cuirassiers "von Seydlitz" | 7 March 1815 | Halberstadt, Quedlinburg | IV Army Corps[16] |
| 8th (Rhenish) Cuirassiers "Count Geßler" | 7 March 1815 | Deutz | VIII Army Corps[17] |
| 1st Guards Dragoons "Queen of Great Britain and Ireland" | 21 February 1815 | Berlin | Guards Corps |
| 2nd Guards Dragoons "Empress Alexandra of Russia" | 1860 | Berlin | Guards Corps |
| 1st (Lithuanian) Dragoons "Prince Albrecht of Prussia" | 19 April 1717 | Tilsit | I Army Corps |
| 2nd (1st Brandenburg) Dragoons | 24 April 1689 | Schwedt/O. | III Army Corps |
| 3rd (Neumark) Mounted Grenadiers "Baron Derfflinger" | 29 December 1704 | Bromberg | II Army Corps |
| 4th (1st Silesian) Dragoons "von Bredow" | 7 March 1815 | Lüben | V Army Corps[18] |
| 5th (Rhenish) Dragoons "Baron Manteuffel" | 7 May 1860 | Hofgeismar | XI Army Corps[19] |
| 6th (Magdeburg) Dragoons | 7 May 1860 | Mainz | XVIII Army Corps[20] |
| 7th (Westphalian) Dragoons | 7 May 1860 | Saarbrücken | XXI Army Corps[21] |
| 8th (2nd Silesian) Dragoons "King Frederick III" | 7 May 1860 | Oels, Kreuzburg, Bernstadt, Namslau | VI Army Corps |
| 9th (1st Hannover) Dragoons "King Charles I of Rumania" | 25 November 1805 | Metz | XVI Army Corps[22] |
| 10th (East Prussian) Dragoons "King Albert of Saxony" | 27 September 1866 | Allenstein | XX Army Corps |
| 11th (Pomeranian) Dragoons "von Wedel" | 27 September 1866 | Lyck | XX Army Corps |
| 12th (2nd Brandenburg) Dragoons "von Arnim" | 27 September 1866 | Gnesen | II Army Corps |
| 13th (Schleswig-Holstein) Dragoons | 27 September 1866 | Metz | XVI Army Corps |
| 14th (Kurmark) Dragoons | 27 September 1866 | Colmar/Elsaß | XV Army Corps[23] |
| 15th (3rd Silesian) Dragoons | 27 September 1866 | Hagenau | XV Army Corps |
| 16th (2nd Hannover) Dragoons | 24 March 1813 | Lüneburg | X Army Corps[24] |
| 17th (1st Grand Ducal Mecklenburgian) Dragoons | 6 November 1819 | Ludwigslust | IX Army Corps[25] |
| 18th (2nd Grand Ducal Mecklenburgian) Dragoons | 8 August 1867 | Parchim | IX Army Corps |
| 19th (Oldenburg) Dragoons | 26 April 1849 | Oldenburg | X Army Corps |
| 20th (1st Baden) Life-Dragoons | 23 March 1803 | Karlsruhe | XIV Army Corps[26] |
| 21st (2nd Baden) Dragoons | 6 January 1850 | Bruchsal, Schwetzingen | XIV Army Corps |
| 22nd (3rd Baden) Dragoons "Prince Charles" | 6 January 1850 | Mülhausen/Elsaß | XIV Army Corps |
| 23rd Guards Dragoons (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) | 6 April 1790 | Darmstadt | XVIII Army Corps |
| 24th Life Dragoons (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian) | 1 December 1859 | Darmstadt | XVIII Army Corps |
| 25th (1st Württemberg) Dragoons "Queen Olga" | 17 November 1813 | Ludwigsburg | XIII Army Corps[27] |
| 26th (2nd Württemberg) Dragoons "King" | 6 December 1805 | Stuttgart-Cannstatt | XIII Army Corps |
| 1st Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Emperor Nicholas of Russia" | 29 June 1682 | Nuremberg, Fürth | III Royal Bavarian Corps[28] |
| 2nd Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Taxis" | 29 June 1682 | Dillingen | III Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 3rd Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Duke Charles Theodore" | 23 January 1724 | Dieuze | II Royal Bavarian Corps[29] |
| 4th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "King" | 1 September 1744 | Augsburg, Neu-Ulm | I Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 5th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Archduke Albrecht of Austria" | 1 April 1776 | Saargemünd, Zweibrücken | II Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 6th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Prince Albrecht of Prussia" | 1 April 1803 | Bayreuth, Neumarkt | III Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 7th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers | 1 October 1905 | Nuremberg | III Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 8th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers | 1 October 1909 | Munich | I Royal Bavarian Corps |
| Life Guards Hussars | 21 February 1815 | Potsdam | Guards Corps |
| 1st Life Hussars "Totenkopf" | 9 August 1741 | Danzig-Langfuhr | XVII Army Corps[30] |
| 2nd Life Hussars "Queen Victoria of Prussia" | 9 August 1741 | Danzig-Langfuhr | XVII Army Corps |
| 3rd (Brandenburg) Hussars “von Zieten” | 30 September 1730 | Rathenow | III Army Corps |
| 4th (1st Silesian) Hussars "von Schill" | 15 November 1741 | Ohlau | VI Army Corps |
| 5th (Pomeranian) Hussars "Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt" | 16 January 1758 | Stolp | XVII Army Corps |
| 6th (2nd Silesian) Hussars "Count Götzen" | 21 November 1808 | Leobschütz, Ratibor | VI Army Corps |
| 7th (1st Rhenish) Hussars "King William I" | 7 March 1815 | Bonn | VIII Army Corps |
| 8th (1st Westphalian) Hussars "Emperor Nicholas II of Russia" | 7 March 1815 | Paderborn, Neuhaus | VII Army Corps |
| 9th (2nd Rhenish) Hussars | 7 March 1815 | Straßburg/Els. | XV Army Corps |
| 10th (Magdeburg) Hussars | 19 November 1813 | Stendal | IV Army Corps |
| 11th (2nd Westphalian) Hussars | 5 December 1813 | Krefeld | VII Army Corps |
| 12th (Thuringian) Hussars | 30 July 1791 | Torgau | IV Army Corps |
| 13th (1st Kurhessian) Hussars "King Umberto of Italy" | 22 November 1813 | Diedenhofen | XVI Army Corps |
| 14th (2nd Kurhessian) Hussars "Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg" | 23 November 1813 | Kassel | XI Army Corps |
| 15th (Hannover) Hussars "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands" | 19 December 1803 | Wandsbek | IX Army Corps |
| 16th (Schleswig-Holstein) Hussars "Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary" | 27 September 1866 | Schleswig | IX Army Corps |
| 17th (Brunswick) Hussars | 1 April 1809 | Braunschweig | X Army Corps |
| 18th (1st Royal Saxon) Hussars "King Albert" | 26 October 1734 | Großenhain | XII Army Corps |
| 19th (2nd Royal Saxon) Hussars "Queen Carola" | 30 July 1791 | Grimma | XIX Army Corps |
| 20th (3rd Royal Saxon) Hussars | 1 October 1910 | Bautzen | XII Army Corps |
| 1st Guards Uhlans | 14 April 1819 | Potsdam | Guards Corps |
| 2nd Guards Uhlans | 14 April 1819 | Berlin | Guards Corps |
| 3rd Guards Uhlans | 7 May 1860 | Potsdam | Guards Corps |
| 1st (West Prussian) Uhlans "Emperor Alexander III of Russia" | 1 August 1745 | Militsch, Ostrowo | V Army Corps |
| 2nd (Silesian) Uhlans of Katzler | 1 August 1745 | Gleiwitz, Pless | VI Army Corps |
| 3rd (1st Brandenburg) Uhlans "Emperor Alexander II of Russia" | 15 May 1809 | Fürstenwalde | III Army Corps |
| 4th (1st Pomeranian) Uhlans "von Schmidt" | 7 March 1815 | Thorn | XX Army Corps |
| 5th (Westphalian) Uhlans | 7 March 1815 | Düsseldorf | VII Army Corps |
| 6th (Thuringian) Uhlans | 18 December 1813 | Hanau | XVIII Army Corps |
| 7th (Rhenish) Uhlans "Archduke Frederick of Baden" | 14 April 1734 | Saarbrücken | XXI Army Corps |
| 8th (East Prussian) Uhlans "Count zu Dohna" | 6 September 1812 | Gumbinnen, Stallupönen | I Army Corps |
| 9th (2nd Pomeranian) Uhlans | 7 May 1860 | Demmin | II Army Corps |
| 10th (Posen) Uhlans "Prince August of Württemberg" | 7 May 1860 | Züllichau | V Army Corps |
| 11th (2nd Brandenburg) Uhlans "Count Haeseler" | 7 May 1860 | Saarburg | XXI Army Corps |
| 12th (Lithuanian) Uhlans | 7 May 1860 | Insterburg | I Army Corps |
| 13th (1st Hannover) King’s Uhlans | 19 December 1803 | Hannover | X Army Corps |
| 14th (2nd Hannover) Uhlans | 10 December 1805 | St. Avold, Mörchingen | XVI Army Corps |
| 15th (Schleswig-Holstein) Uhlans | 27 September 1866 | Saarburg | XXI Army Corps |
| 16th (Altmark) Uhlans "Hennigs von Treffenfeld" | 27 September 1866 | Salzwedel, Gardelegen | IV Army Corps |
| 17th (1st Royal Saxon) Uhlans "Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary" | 1 April 1867 | Oschatz | XII Army Corps |
| 18th (2nd Royal Saxon) Uhlans | 1 April 1867 | Leipzig | XIX Army Corps |
| 19th (1st Württemberg) Uhlans "King Charles" | 9 July 1683 | Ulm | XIII Army Corps |
| 20th (2nd Württemberg) Uhlans "King William I" | 24 July 1809 | Ludwigsburg | XIII Army Corps |
| 21st (3rd Royal Saxon) Uhlans | 1 October 1905 | Chemnitz | XIX Army Corps |
| 1st Royal Bavarian Uhlans "Emperor William II, King of Prussia" | 21 December 1863 | Bamberg | II Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 2nd Royal Bavarian Uhlans "King" | 21 December 1863 | Ansbach | II Royal Bavarian Corps |
| 1st King’s Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1905 | Posen | V Army Corps |
| 2nd Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1905 | Langensalza | XI Army Corps |
| 3rd Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1905 | Colmar | XV Army Corps |
| 4th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1906 | Graudenz | XVII Army Corps |
| 5th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1908 | Mülhausen/Elsaß | XIV Army Corps |
| 6th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1910 | Erfurt | XI Army Corps |
| 7th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1913 | Trier | VIII Army Corps |
| 8th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1913 | Trier | VIII Army Corps |
| 9th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1913 | Insterburg | I Army Corps |
| 10th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1913 | Angerburg, Goldap | I Army Corps |
| 11th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1913 | Tarnowitz, Lublinitz | VI Army Corps |
| 12th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1913 | St. Avold | XVI Army Corps |
| 13th Mounted Rifles | 1 October 1913 | Saarlouis | XVI Army Corps |
Regiments formed on mobilisation
33 Reserve Cavalry Regiments, 2 Landwehr Cavalry Regiments and 1 Ersatz Cavalry Regiment were formed on mobilisation in August 1914 and assigned to field formations. Each of these had a strength of 3 squadrons.[31]
See also
- Bavarian Army
- German Army (German Empire)
- German cavalry in World War I
- List of Imperial German infantry regiments
- List of Imperial German artillery regiments
References
- ↑ Tessin 1974, pp. 28–34
- ↑ "The Prussian Machine, Bavarian Regiments". Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ↑ "The Prussian Machine, Cavalry Regiments". Retrieved 19 May 2012.
- ↑ Cron 2002, p. 128
- ↑ A Pocket German Army at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 February 2009)
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 239
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 251
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 258
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 261
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 245
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 241
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 240
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 246
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 259
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 242
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 243
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 247
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 244
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 250
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 257
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 260
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 255
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 254
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 249
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 248
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 253
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 252
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 263
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 262
- ↑ War Office 1918, p. 256
- ↑ Cron 2002, p. 128
- ↑ War Office 1918, pp. 239–263
- ↑ Cron 2002, pp. 301–328
Bibliography
- Cron, Hermann (2002). Imperial German Army 1914-18: Organisation, Structure, Orders-of-Battle [first published: 1937]. Helion & Co. ISBN 1-874622-70-1.
- Tessin, Georg (1974). Deutsche Verbände und Truppen, 1918 - 1939. Biblio Osnabrück. ISBN 3-7648-1000-9.
- The German Forces in the Field; 7th Revision, 11th November 1918; Compiled by the General Staff, War Office. Imperial War Museum, London and The Battery Press, Inc (1995). 1918. ISBN 1-870423-95-X.