any information about this 1917/20 unit marked erfurt would be appreciated

roadkill1 · 07-19-2014, 08:18 AM

jbf22:

Some info on Reiter Regiment 16:

Reiter-Regiment 16
16th Cavalry Regiment
Cavalry Regiment Erfurt

Feldpost numbers: For the regiment no Feldpost numbers were assigned as resolved before the war began.

The Cavalry Regiment 16 was in the former Military District V set up. The regiment was with the installation of 3 Cavalry Division assumed. The regiment remained subject to this division, even after formation of the 100,000 man army of the Reichswehr. The regimental headquarters was with the 6th (Preuß.) Squadron in Kassel , at that time in the military district V , stationed. The third (Hess.) and the fourth (Preuß.) squadron of the regiment were in Langensalza then also, Military District V home. The first (Preuß.), 2 (Preuß.) and 5 (Hess.) squadron, however, were in Hofgeismar , then also V Military District stationed. Due to the military law of March 23, 1921 § 14, paragraph 2, the regiment then became the 16th Cavalry Regiment renamed. Also in 1921 the 5th Squadron for training squadron was renamed.
The tradition of sponsorship in the regiment was then distributed in the first years of the Reichswehr as follows:
1st Squadron: 2 Rhenish Hussars 9
2nd Squadron: Rhine Dragoon Regiment "Freiherr von Manteuffel" # 5
3rd Squadron: 2nd Grand Ducal Hessian Leib-Dragoon Regiment No. 24
4th Squadron: Thüringisches Uhlan Regiment No. 6
Training squadron: 1st Grand Ducal Hessian Guards Dragoon Regiment No. 23
6 Squadron: 2 Kurhessisches Hussars "Landgraf Friedrich III. of Hesse-Homburg "# 14
In late summer 1925, the regiment took part in a training exercise in Thuringia. Then moved parts of the regiment in their new garrison town of Erfurt, then also Military District V, a. In Erfurt, now the regimental headquarters with news and MG-train as well as the 1st and 3rd Squadron were stationed. The units were now stationed in the old hunter barracks in the south of Erfurt. 1928/29, replaced the 3rd Squadron and the 6th Squadron of the tradition troops. In addition, the 1st Squadron also took over the tradition of the Machine Gun Division No. 3 of the expansion of the Reichswehr into the Wehrmacht in 1934, the regiment was renamed Cavalry Regiment Erfurt. On October 15, 1935, the regiment was disbanded, while as the root for the motorized infantry battalions 1 , 2 and 3 used.

Regimental commanders:

Colonel Walter von Jagow -up - April 30, 1922

Major General Eduard Freiherr von Rotberg 1 May 1922 - April 30, 1925

Woldemar Colonel Freiherr Grote 1 May 1925 - January 31, 1929

Major General William Knochenhauer 1 February 1929 - October 31, 1931

Colonel Fritz von Brodowski 1 November 1931 - September 30, 1934

Colonel Ferdinand Schaal 1 October 1934 - Resolution

Division commanders

I. Department:

Major Ulrich Kleemann 1 October 1934 - Resolution

II Department:

Major Wilhelm von Apell 1 October 1934 - Resolution

Regimental adjutant:

Captain peace mouth von Arnim 1 February 1923 - January 31, 1926

Lieutenant Erpo Freiherr von Bodenhausen 1 February 1926 - June 1, 1928

Lieutenant Hildebrand (1929, 30, 31, 32)

Major Oswin Grolig October 1, 1934 - Resolution

Cavalry Regiment (Reichswehr)

Cavalry of the Reichswehr

Cavalry of the Reichswehr

Farewell to the lance 1928
The rider regiments of the Reichswehr were due to the Versailles Treaty placed (180 Plate III article). Eighteen riders - regiments were three cavalry divisions assumed. A Cavalry Regiment was divided into several squadrons . [1] The duties and breakdowns of individual regiments were different and inferior in accordance with the restructuring of the army several times change. Illustrative of the history of a regiment, the cavalry regiment 18 of the Wehrmacht .

Contents [Verbergen]
1 History
2 Name of units
3 Organization
4 Tradition Care
References 5
5.1 See also
5.2 External links
5.3 Literature
5.4 Notes and references
History [ edit ]
The preparation of the regiments began to part just after the First World War from the demobilized army of the Empire (peace army). First (Spring 1919 to the end of September 1919) were formed regiments and in the time of transition army (1st October 1919-May 1920) in the so-called Provisional Reichswehr. December 18, 1919, by Order No. 12.19.2494 T2 of the Reichswehr Ministry of 18 December 1919 as the founding day for all Reichswehr cavalry regiments set (the actual data differs accordingly from). The transition of these regiments to the Wehrmacht was carried out with 16 March 1935.

Designation of the units [ Edit ]
The names of the units were to the formation of the actual Reichswehr on January 1, 1921 amended several times usually in the course of the history of the Provisional Reichswehr, the transition army. In the early days of expellees or historical names were taken from the regiments, which later by the Weimar agreement of 16 June 1919 Article 79 sentence 2 of the Weimar Constitution to the "country team result quirks" and Regulation HVBl. 1922 No. 335 were repealed on 19 May 1922. On 29 May 1922, the regiment received the specified country team result names. [2]

The designation of the regiments changed in the Wehrmacht Cavalry Regiment xx and the designation of expellees was omitted.

Organization [ Edit ]
The following table provides affiliation to an association, the structure as well as the sites for early 1933 dar.

Ministry of Defense / Chief of the High Command: Berlin

1st Cavalry Division in Frankfurt / Oder (Bar) temporary group 1 command subordinated, sometimes directly to the Command.

1 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Tilsit (bar, 1, 4, educ.) and Insterburg (2nd, 3rd)
2 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Osterode / East Prussia (rod, 2nd, 4th, 6th) and Olsztyn (1st, 3rd, yield).
3rd (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Rathenow (bar, 2, yield.) and Stendal (1st, 3rd, 4th)
4 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Potsdam (bar, 1st, 3rd, educ.) and Pearl Mountain (2nd, 4th)
5 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Stolp (bar, 3rd, 4th, educ.) and Belgard (1st, 2nd)
6 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Pasewalk (bar, 1, educ.), Schwedt (2, 4) and Demmin (3, 6)
2nd Cavalry Division in Wroclaw (staff) at times group 1 command subordinated, sometimes directly to the Command.

7 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Breslau (Rod, 1st, 2nd, 6th, educ.) and Lubin (3, 4)
8 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Brieg (bar, 1st, 3rd, yield.) Oels (2) and Namslau (4)
9 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Fiirstenwalde (bar, 1st, 2nd, educ.) and Beeskow (3, 4)
10 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Züllichau (bar, 3rd, 4th, educ.) and Torgau (1st, 2nd)
11 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Neustadt / Upper Silesia (bar, 3rd, 4th), Leobschutz (2) and Ohlau (1, yield).
12th (Saxon) Cavalry Regiment in Dresden (rod, 4, 6) Grimsby (1, 3) and Great grove (2, yield).
3rd Cavalry Division in Weimar (Bar) temporary group 2 command subordinated, sometimes directly to the Command.

13 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Hannover (bar, 1st, 2nd, educ.) and Lüneburg (3, 4)
14th Cavalry Regiment in Ludwigslust (bar, 1, educ.) Parchim (2) and Schleswig (3, 4)
15 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Paderborn (rod, yield.), Neuhaus / Westfalen (1, 2) and Münster (3rd, 4th, 6th)
16th Cavalry Regiment in Erfurt (bar, 1, 3), Hofgeismar (2, educ.) and Langensalza (4, 6)
17th (Bavarian) Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg (bar, 1, educ.), Ansbach (2nd, 3rd) and Straubing (4, 6)
18th Cavalry Regiment in Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt (bar, 2, educ.) and Ludwigsburg (1st, 3rd, 4th)
Tradition Care [ Edit ]
The tradition of care by the then Chief of the Army Command, with effect from August 24, 1921 Colonel-General Hans von Seeckt has for the Reichswehr. The tradition acquisitions are each documented in the history of the individual regiments. A partial list can be found in the article on the tradition takeover .

References [ Edit ]
See also [ edit ]
Cavalry
Cavalry Division
Guards Cavalry Division (German Empire)
Cavalry Rifle Regiment
Genesis of the Reichswehr
External links [ Edit ]
Carina Notzke: associations and units of cavalry. Introduction. Federal Archives, June 2008, accessed on 13 April 2010 (German).
Literature [ Edit ]
Klaus Christian Richter: The History of the German Cavalry 1919-1945. 1st edition, engine book, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-603-7
Edgar Earl of Matushka: Organization History of the Army from 1890 to 1918. In: Military History Research Institute (ed.): German military history in six volumes from 1648 to 1939, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88199-112-3
Georg Tessin : German organizations and troops from 1918 to 1939. Old army, voluntary associations, Reichswehr, Army, Air Force, National Police. Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9
Karl Volker Neugebauer: Principles of German military history. Volume 1: Historical overview. Rombach, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3793006026
Paul Schneider: The organization of the army. Berlin 1931
Friedrich Stahl: The Army division in 1939, mist, 2005, ISBN 3895553387
References [ Edit ]
↑ It was not until 1934, the name was squadron.
↑ Georg Tessin : German associations and troops 1918-1939, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p 188
Category : Cavalry Association (Reichswehr)

Perhaps a little more info on this unit than you may have had………

Handsome Luger!!!

Ron

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roadkill1 Patron LugerForum Patron Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Virginia Posts: 127 Thanks: 166 Thanked 129 Times in 63 Posts	jbf22: Some info on Reiter Regiment 16: Reiter-Regiment 16 16th Cavalry Regiment Cavalry Regiment Erfurt Feldpost numbers: For the regiment no Feldpost numbers were assigned as resolved before the war began. The Cavalry Regiment 16 was in the former Military District V set up. The regiment was with the installation of 3 Cavalry Division assumed. The regiment remained subject to this division, even after formation of the 100,000 man army of the Reichswehr. The regimental headquarters was with the 6th (Preuß.) Squadron in Kassel , at that time in the military district V , stationed. The third (Hess.) and the fourth (Preuß.) squadron of the regiment were in Langensalza then also, Military District V home. The first (Preuß.), 2 (Preuß.) and 5 (Hess.) squadron, however, were in Hofgeismar , then also V Military District stationed. Due to the military law of March 23, 1921 § 14, paragraph 2, the regiment then became the 16th Cavalry Regiment renamed. Also in 1921 the 5th Squadron for training squadron was renamed. The tradition of sponsorship in the regiment was then distributed in the first years of the Reichswehr as follows: 1st Squadron: 2 Rhenish Hussars 9 2nd Squadron: Rhine Dragoon Regiment "Freiherr von Manteuffel" # 5 3rd Squadron: 2nd Grand Ducal Hessian Leib-Dragoon Regiment No. 24 4th Squadron: Thüringisches Uhlan Regiment No. 6 Training squadron: 1st Grand Ducal Hessian Guards Dragoon Regiment No. 23 6 Squadron: 2 Kurhessisches Hussars "Landgraf Friedrich III. of Hesse-Homburg "# 14 In late summer 1925, the regiment took part in a training exercise in Thuringia. Then moved parts of the regiment in their new garrison town of Erfurt, then also Military District V, a. In Erfurt, now the regimental headquarters with news and MG-train as well as the 1st and 3rd Squadron were stationed. The units were now stationed in the old hunter barracks in the south of Erfurt. 1928/29, replaced the 3rd Squadron and the 6th Squadron of the tradition troops. In addition, the 1st Squadron also took over the tradition of the Machine Gun Division No. 3 of the expansion of the Reichswehr into the Wehrmacht in 1934, the regiment was renamed Cavalry Regiment Erfurt. On October 15, 1935, the regiment was disbanded, while as the root for the motorized infantry battalions 1 , 2 and 3 used. Regimental commanders: Colonel Walter von Jagow -up - April 30, 1922 Major General Eduard Freiherr von Rotberg 1 May 1922 - April 30, 1925 Woldemar Colonel Freiherr Grote 1 May 1925 - January 31, 1929 Major General William Knochenhauer 1 February 1929 - October 31, 1931 Colonel Fritz von Brodowski 1 November 1931 - September 30, 1934 Colonel Ferdinand Schaal 1 October 1934 - Resolution Division commanders I. Department: Major Ulrich Kleemann 1 October 1934 - Resolution II Department: Major Wilhelm von Apell 1 October 1934 - Resolution Regimental adjutant: Captain peace mouth von Arnim 1 February 1923 - January 31, 1926 Lieutenant Erpo Freiherr von Bodenhausen 1 February 1926 - June 1, 1928 Lieutenant Hildebrand (1929, 30, 31, 32) Major Oswin Grolig October 1, 1934 - Resolution Cavalry Regiment (Reichswehr) Cavalry of the Reichswehr Cavalry of the Reichswehr Farewell to the lance 1928 The rider regiments of the Reichswehr were due to the Versailles Treaty placed (180 Plate III article). Eighteen riders - regiments were three cavalry divisions assumed. A Cavalry Regiment was divided into several squadrons . [1] The duties and breakdowns of individual regiments were different and inferior in accordance with the restructuring of the army several times change. Illustrative of the history of a regiment, the cavalry regiment 18 of the Wehrmacht . Contents [Verbergen] 1 History 2 Name of units 3 Organization 4 Tradition Care References 5 5.1 See also 5.2 External links 5.3 Literature 5.4 Notes and references History [ edit ] The preparation of the regiments began to part just after the First World War from the demobilized army of the Empire (peace army). First (Spring 1919 to the end of September 1919) were formed regiments and in the time of transition army (1st October 1919-May 1920) in the so-called Provisional Reichswehr. December 18, 1919, by Order No. 12.19.2494 T2 of the Reichswehr Ministry of 18 December 1919 as the founding day for all Reichswehr cavalry regiments set (the actual data differs accordingly from). The transition of these regiments to the Wehrmacht was carried out with 16 March 1935. Designation of the units [ Edit ] The names of the units were to the formation of the actual Reichswehr on January 1, 1921 amended several times usually in the course of the history of the Provisional Reichswehr, the transition army. In the early days of expellees or historical names were taken from the regiments, which later by the Weimar agreement of 16 June 1919 Article 79 sentence 2 of the Weimar Constitution to the "country team result quirks" and Regulation HVBl. 1922 No. 335 were repealed on 19 May 1922. On 29 May 1922, the regiment received the specified country team result names. [2] The designation of the regiments changed in the Wehrmacht Cavalry Regiment xx and the designation of expellees was omitted. Organization [ Edit ] The following table provides affiliation to an association, the structure as well as the sites for early 1933 dar. Ministry of Defense / Chief of the High Command: Berlin 1st Cavalry Division in Frankfurt / Oder (Bar) temporary group 1 command subordinated, sometimes directly to the Command. 1 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Tilsit (bar, 1, 4, educ.) and Insterburg (2nd, 3rd) 2 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Osterode / East Prussia (rod, 2nd, 4th, 6th) and Olsztyn (1st, 3rd, yield). 3rd (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Rathenow (bar, 2, yield.) and Stendal (1st, 3rd, 4th) 4 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Potsdam (bar, 1st, 3rd, educ.) and Pearl Mountain (2nd, 4th) 5 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Stolp (bar, 3rd, 4th, educ.) and Belgard (1st, 2nd) 6 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Pasewalk (bar, 1, educ.), Schwedt (2, 4) and Demmin (3, 6) 2nd Cavalry Division in Wroclaw (staff) at times group 1 command subordinated, sometimes directly to the Command. 7 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Breslau (Rod, 1st, 2nd, 6th, educ.) and Lubin (3, 4) 8 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Brieg (bar, 1st, 3rd, yield.) Oels (2) and Namslau (4) 9 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Fiirstenwalde (bar, 1st, 2nd, educ.) and Beeskow (3, 4) 10 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Züllichau (bar, 3rd, 4th, educ.) and Torgau (1st, 2nd) 11 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Neustadt / Upper Silesia (bar, 3rd, 4th), Leobschutz (2) and Ohlau (1, yield). 12th (Saxon) Cavalry Regiment in Dresden (rod, 4, 6) Grimsby (1, 3) and Great grove (2, yield). 3rd Cavalry Division in Weimar (Bar) temporary group 2 command subordinated, sometimes directly to the Command. 13 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Hannover (bar, 1st, 2nd, educ.) and Lüneburg (3, 4) 14th Cavalry Regiment in Ludwigslust (bar, 1, educ.) Parchim (2) and Schleswig (3, 4) 15 (Prussian) Reiter-Regiment in Paderborn (rod, yield.), Neuhaus / Westfalen (1, 2) and Münster (3rd, 4th, 6th) 16th Cavalry Regiment in Erfurt (bar, 1, 3), Hofgeismar (2, educ.) and Langensalza (4, 6) 17th (Bavarian) Cavalry Regiment in Bamberg (bar, 1, educ.), Ansbach (2nd, 3rd) and Straubing (4, 6) 18th Cavalry Regiment in Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt (bar, 2, educ.) and Ludwigsburg (1st, 3rd, 4th) Tradition Care [ Edit ] The tradition of care by the then Chief of the Army Command, with effect from August 24, 1921 Colonel-General Hans von Seeckt has for the Reichswehr. The tradition acquisitions are each documented in the history of the individual regiments. A partial list can be found in the article on the tradition takeover . References [ Edit ] See also [ edit ] Cavalry Cavalry Division Guards Cavalry Division (German Empire) Cavalry Rifle Regiment Genesis of the Reichswehr External links [ Edit ] Carina Notzke: associations and units of cavalry. Introduction. Federal Archives, June 2008, accessed on 13 April 2010 (German). Literature [ Edit ] Klaus Christian Richter: The History of the German Cavalry 1919-1945. 1st edition, engine book, Stuttgart 1978, ISBN 3-87943-603-7 Edgar Earl of Matushka: Organization History of the Army from 1890 to 1918. In: Military History Research Institute (ed.): German military history in six volumes from 1648 to 1939, Munich 1983, ISBN 3-88199-112-3 Georg Tessin : German organizations and troops from 1918 to 1939. Old army, voluntary associations, Reichswehr, Army, Air Force, National Police. Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 Karl Volker Neugebauer: Principles of German military history. Volume 1: Historical overview. Rombach, Freiburg 1993, ISBN 3793006026 Paul Schneider: The organization of the army. Berlin 1931 Friedrich Stahl: The Army division in 1939, mist, 2005, ISBN 3895553387 References [ Edit ] ↑ It was not until 1934, the name was squadron. ↑ Georg Tessin : German associations and troops 1918-1939, Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1974, ISBN 3-7648-1000-9 , p 188 Category : Cavalry Association (Reichswehr) Perhaps a little more info on this unit than you may have had……… Handsome Luger!!! Ron