Cavalry Corps ''Schmettow'' was a formation of the
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in
World War I
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Cavalry Corps Schmettow
By August 1916, the four existing Cavalry Commanders (
I,
III,
V and
VI Cavalry Corps) had been assigned sectors of the
Eastern Front and thus took on the functions similar to a normal Corps and had been reorganised in a similar fashion. Therefore, for the
Romanian Campaign, none of the existing Cavalry Corps were brought in. Instead, a new temporary Cavalry Corps was set up in Transylvannia - Cavalry Corps "Schmettow" - under the command of
Generalleutnant
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Austria
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Eberhard Graf von Schmettow. It was formed with:
*51st
Honvéd Infantry Division (Austria-Hungary)
*
3rd Cavalry Division
*1st Cavalry Division (Austria-Hungary)
Redesignated 11 January 1917 as 65th Corps (z.b.V.).
65th Corps
65th Corps (z.b.V.) was formed on 11 January 1917 by the redesignation of Cavalry Corps "Schmettow". As the need for large mounted cavalry formations diminished as the war went on, the existing Cavalry Corps increasingly took on the characteristics of a normal Corps Command. This culminated in them being redesignated as "General Commands for Special Use" ''Generalkommandos zur besonderen Verwendung (Genkdo z.b.V.)''.
By the end of the war, the Corps was serving on the
Western Front as part of the
7th Army with the following composition:
*
5th Division
*
4th Guards Division
* 216th Division
*
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Commanders
Cavalry Corps Schmettow / 65th Corps was commanded throughout its existence by
Generalleutnant
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Austria
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Eberhard Graf von Schmettow
Bernhard Gottfried Max Hugo Eberhard, Graf von Schmettow, usually shortened to Eberhard Graf von Schmettow, (17 September 1861 – 21 January 1935) was a German general of World War I.
Biography
Eberhard von Schmettow was born in Halberstadt, Pru ...
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German War History
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See also
*German Army (German Empire)
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*German cavalry in World War I
The history of the German Empire, German Cavalry in World War I is one of an arm in decline.
Pre-war
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