1st Cavalry Division (Reichswehr)

The 1st Cavalry Division was a unit of the Reichswehr, the armed forces of Germany during the Weimar Republic.

It consisted of 6 cavalry regiments, the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th (Prussian) Regiments. It was subordinated to Gruppenkommando 1.

Divisional commanders

• General der Kavallerie Rudolf von Horn (1 June 1920 - 1 June 1921)
• Generalleutnant Otto Freiherr von Tettau (1 June 1920 - 1 April 1923)
• General der Kavallerie Walther von Jagow (1 April 1923 - 1 February 1927)
• Generalleutnant Ulrich von Henning auf Schönhoff (1 February 1927 - 1 February 1929)
• Generalleutnant Georg Brandt (1 February 1929 - 1 December 1929)
• Generalleutnant Fedor von Bock (1 December 1929 - 1 October 1931)
• Generalleutnant Werner von Fritsch (1 October 1931 - 1 October 1932)
• Generalleutnant Ludwig Beck (1 October 1932 - 1 October 1933)
• Generalleutnant Hans Feige (1 October 1933 - 1 April 1935)

Garrison

The divisional headquarters was in Frankfurt an der Oder.

References

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9. Fedor von Bock
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13. Walter Petzel
14. German cavalry in World War I
15. Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist
16. Military district (Germany)
17. Hermann Fegelein
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