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.
[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).
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.