This is a List of Imperial German cavalry regiments 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 but others were only formed as late as October 1913.
On mobilisation, they were joined by 33 reserve cavalry regiments, 2 landwehr cavalry regiments and 1 ersatz cavalry regiment was also formed. 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 +Regiments that existed in the Peacetime Army Regiment Raised Garrison CorpsGardes du CorpsPotsdamGuards CorpsGuards CuirassiersBerlinGuards Corps1st Royal Saxon Guards Heavy CavalryDresdenXII Army CorpsCarabiniers (2nd Royal Saxon Heavy Cavalry)BornaXIX Army Corps1st Royal Bavarian Heavy Cavalry "Prince Charles of Bavaria"MunichI Royal Bavarian Corps2nd Royal Bavarian Heavy Cavalry "Archduke Francis Ferdinand of Austria"LandshutI Royal Bavarian Corps1st (Silesian) Life Cuirassiers "Great Elector"BreslauVI Army Corps2nd (Pomeranian) Cuirassiers “Queen”PasewalkII Army Corps3rd (East Prussian) Cuirassiers "Count Wrangel"Königsberg I Army Corps4th (Westphalian) Cuirassiers "von Driesen"Münster VII Army Corps5th (West Prussian) Cuirassiers "Duke Frederick Eugene of Württemberg"RiesenburgXX Army Corps6th (Brandenburg) Cuirassiers "Emperor Nicholas I of Russia"BrandenburgIII Army Corps7th (Magdeburg) Cuirassiers "von Seydlitz"Halberstadt, QuedlinburgIV Army Corps8th (Rhenish) Cuirassiers "Count Geßler"Deutz VIII Army Corps1st Guards Dragoons "Queen of Great Britain and Ireland"BerlinGuards Corps2nd Guards Dragoons "Empress Alexandra of Russia"BerlinGuards Corps1st (Lithuanian) Dragoons "Prince Albrecht of Prussia"TilsitI Army Corps2nd (1st Brandenburg) DragoonsSchwedt/O.III Army Corps3rd (Neumark) Mounted Grenadiers "Baron Derfflinger"BrombergII Army Corps4th (1st Silesian) Dragoons "von Bredow"LübenV Army Corps5th (Rhenish) Dragoons "Baron Manteuffel"HofgeismarXI Army Corps6th (Magdeburg) DragoonsMainzXVIII Army Corps7th (Westphalian) DragoonsSaarbrückenXXI Army Corps8th (2nd Silesian) Dragoons "King Frederick III"Oels, Kreuzburg, Bernstadt, NamslauVI Army Corps9th (1st Hannover) Dragoons "King Charles I of Rumania"MetzXVI Army Corps10th (East Prussian) Dragoons "King Albert of Saxony"AllensteinXX Army Corps11th (Pomeranian) Dragoons "von Wedel"LyckXX Army Corps12th (2nd Brandenburg) Dragoons "von Arnim"GnesenII Army Corps13th (Schleswig-Holstein) DragoonsMetzXVI Army Corps14th (Kurmark) DragoonsColmar/ElsaßXV Army Corps15th (3rd Silesian) DragoonsHagenauXV Army Corps16th (2nd Hannover) DragoonsLüneburgX Army Corps17th (1st Grand Ducal Mecklenburgian) DragoonsLudwigslustIX Army Corps18th (2nd Grand Ducal Mecklenburgian) DragoonsParchimIX Army Corps19th (Oldenburg) DragoonsOldenburgX Army Corps20th (1st Baden) Life-DragoonsKarlsruheXIV Army Corps21st (2nd Baden) DragoonsBruchsal, SchwetzingenXIV Army Corps22nd (3rd Baden) Dragoons "Prince Charles"Mülhausen/ElsaßXIV Army Corps23rd Guards Dragoons (1st Grand Ducal Hessian)DarmstadtXVIII Army Corps24th Life Dragoons (2nd Grand Ducal Hessian)DarmstadtXVIII Army Corps25th (1st Württemberg) Dragoons "Queen Olga"LudwigsburgXIII Army Corps26th (2nd Württemberg) Dragoons "King"Stuttgart-CannstattXIII Army Corps1st Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Emperor Nicholas of Russia"Nuremberg, FürthIII Royal Bavarian Corps2nd Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Taxis"DillingenIII Royal Bavarian Corps3rd Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Duke Charles Theodore"DieuzeII Royal Bavarian Corps4th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "King"Augsburg, Neu-UlmI Royal Bavarian Corps5th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Archduke Albrecht of Austria"Saargemünd, ZweibrückenII Royal Bavarian Corps6th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légers "Prince Albrecht of Prussia"Bayreuth, NeumarktIII Royal Bavarian Corps7th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légersNurembergIII Royal Bavarian Corps8th Royal Bavarian Chevau-légersMunichI Royal Bavarian CorpsLife Guards HussarsPotsdamGuards Corps1st Life Hussars "Totenkopf"Danzig-LangfuhrXVII Army Corps2nd Life Hussars "Queen Victoria of Prussia"Danzig-LangfuhrXVII Army Corps3rd (Brandenburg) Hussars “von Zieten”RathenowIII Army Corps4th (1st Silesian) Hussars "von Schill"OhlauVI Army Corps5th (Pomeranian) Hussars "Prince Blücher of Wahlstatt"StolpXVII Army Corps6th (2nd Silesian) Hussars "Count Götzen"Leobschütz, RatiborVI Army Corps7th (1st Rhenish) Hussars "King William I"BonnVIII Army Corps8th (1st Westphalian) Hussars "Emperor Nicholas II of Russia"Paderborn, NeuhausVII Army Corps9th (2nd Rhenish) HussarsStraßburg/Els.XV Army Corps10th (Magdeburg) HussarsStendalIV Army Corps2nd Westphalian Hussar Regiment, No. 11KrefeldVII Army Corps12th (Thuringian) HussarsTorgauIV Army Corps13th (1st Kurhessian) Hussars "King Umberto of Italy"DiedenhofenXVI Army Corps14th (2nd Kurhessian) Hussars "Landgrave Frederick II of Hesse-Homburg"KasselXI Army Corps15th (Hannover) Hussars "Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands"WandsbekIX Army Corps16th (Schleswig-Holstein) Hussars "Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary"SchleswigIX Army Corps17th (Brunswick) HussarsBraunschweigX Army Corps18th (1st Royal Saxon) Hussars "King Albert"GroßenhainXII Army Corps19th (2nd Royal Saxon) Hussars "Queen Carola"GrimmaXIX Army Corps20th (3rd Royal Saxon) HussarsBautzenXII Army Corps1st Guards UhlansPotsdamGuards Corps2nd Guards UhlansBerlinGuards Corps3rd Guards UhlansPotsdamGuards Corps1st (West Prussian) Uhlans "Emperor Alexander III of Russia"Militsch, OstrowoV Army Corps2nd (Silesian) Uhlans of KatzlerGleiwitz, PlessVI Army Corps3rd (1st Brandenburg) Uhlans "Emperor Alexander II of Russia"FürstenwaldeIII Army Corps4th (1st Pomeranian) Uhlans "von Schmidt"ThornXX Army Corps5th (Westphalian) UhlansDüsseldorfVII Army Corps6th (Thuringian) UhlansHanauXVIII Army Corps7th (Rhenish) Uhlans "Archduke Frederick of Baden"SaarbrückenXXI Army Corps8th (East Prussian) Uhlans "Count zu Dohna"Gumbinnen, StallupönenI Army Corps9th (2nd Pomeranian) UhlansDemminII Army Corps10th (Posen) Uhlans "Prince August of Württemberg"ZüllichauV Army Corps11th (2nd Brandenburg) Uhlans "Count Haeseler"SaarburgXXI Army Corps12th (Lithuanian) UhlansInsterburgI Army Corps13th (1st Hannover) King's UhlansHannoverX Army Corps14th (2nd Hannover) UhlansSt. Avold, MörchingenXVI Army Corps15th (Schleswig-Holstein) UhlansSaarburgXXI Army Corps16th (Altmark) Uhlans "Hennigs von Treffenfeld"Salzwedel, GardelegenIV Army Corps17th (1st Royal Saxon) Uhlans "Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria, King of Hungary"OschatzXII Army Corps18th (2nd Royal Saxon) UhlansLeipzigXIX Army Corps19th (1st Württemberg) Uhlans "King Charles"UlmXIII Army Corps20th (2nd Württemberg) Uhlans "King William I"LudwigsburgXIII Army Corps21st (3rd Royal Saxon) UhlansChemnitzXIX Army Corps1st Royal Bavarian Uhlans "Emperor William II, King of Prussia"BambergII Royal Bavarian Corps2nd Royal Bavarian Uhlans "King"AnsbachII Royal Bavarian Corps1st King's Mounted RiflesPosenV Army Corps2nd Mounted RiflesLangensalzaXI Army Corps3rd Mounted RiflesColmarXV Army Corps4th Mounted RiflesGraudenzXVII Army Corps5th Mounted RiflesMülhausen/ElsaßXIV Army Corps6th Mounted RiflesErfurtXI Army Corps7th Mounted RiflesTrierVIII Army Corps8th Mounted RiflesTrierVIII Army Corps9th Mounted RiflesInsterburgI Army Corps10th Mounted RiflesAngerburg, GoldapI Army Corps11th Mounted RiflesTarnowitz, LublinitzVI Army Corps12th Mounted RiflesSt. AvoldXVI Army Corps13th Mounted RiflesSaarlouisXVI 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.
+Reserve, Landwehr and Ersatz Regiments raised on mobilisation Regiment Raised by Divisional assignment Corps assignment. Reserve Guards UhlansGuards Corps3rd Guards DivisionGuards Reserve CorpsReserve Guards DragoonsGuards Corps1st Guards Reserve DivisionGuards Reserve Corps1st Reserve UhlansI Corps1st Reserve DivisionI Reserve Corps1st Reserve HussarsXVII Corps36th Reserve DivisionI Reserve Corps2nd Reserve DragoonsIII Corps5th Reserve DivisionIII Reserve Corps3rd Reserve UhlansIII Corps6th Reserve DivisionIII Reserve Corps1st Reserve Schwere ReiterIV Corps7th Reserve DivisionIV Reserve Corps1st Reserve Jager zu PferdeXI Corps22nd Reserve DivisionIV Reserve Corps3rd Reserve DragoonsV Corps9th Reserve DivisionV Reserve Corps6th Reserve UhlansV Corps10th Reserve DivisionV Reserve Corps4th Reserve HussarsVI Corps11th Reserve DivisionVI Reserve Corps4th Reserve UhlansVI Corps12th Reserve DivisionVI Reserve Corps5th Reserve HussarsVII Corps13th Reserve DivisionVII Reserve Corps8th Reserve HussarsVII Corps14th Reserve DivisionVII Reserve Corps5th Reserve UhlansX Corps15th Reserve DivisionVIII Reserve Corps2nd Reserve Schwere ReiterVIII Corps16th Reserve DivisionVIII Reserve Corps6th Reserve HussarsIX Corps17th Reserve DivisionIX Reserve Corps7th Reserve HussarsIX Corps18th Reserve DivisionIX Reserve Corps2nd Reserve UhlansII Corps2nd Guards Reserve DivisionX Reserve Corps6th Reserve DragoonsX Corps19th Reserve DivisionX Reserve CorpsReserve Saxon HussarsXII Corps23rd Reserve DivisionXII Reserve CorpsReserve Saxon UhlansXIX Corps24th Reserve DivisionXII Reserve CorpsReserve Wurttenberg DragoonsXIII Corps26th Reserve DivisionXIV Reserve Corps8th Reserve DragoonsXIV Corps28th Reserve DivisionXIV Reserve Corps7th Reserve DragoonsXI Corps21st Reserve DivisionXVIII Reserve Corps4th Reserve DragoonsXVIII Corps25th Reserve DivisionXVIII Reserve Corps1st Reserve BavarianI Royal Bavarian Corps1st Bavarian Reserve DivisionI Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps5th Reserve BavarianIII Royal Bavarian Corps5th Bavarian Reserve DivisionI Royal Bavarian Reserve Corps5th Reserve DragoonsII Corps3rd Reserve DivisionDirectly subordinated to 8th Army9th Reserve HussarsIII Corps30th Reserve DivisionFortress Strassburg2nd Reserve HussarsIV Corps33rd Reserve DivisionFortress Metz3rd Reserve Schwere ReiterXX Corps35th Reserve DivisionFortress Thorn1st Reserve DragoonsXX Corpsn/aFortress Königsberg1st Landwehr CavalryV Corps3rd Landwehr DivisionLandwehr Corps2nd Landwehr CavalryVI Corps4th Landwehr DivisionLandwehr CorpsErsatz CavalryVI Corps4th Landwehr DivisionLandwehr Corps
See also
Bavarian Army German cavalry in World War I List of Imperial German artillery regiments List of Imperial German infantry regiments
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