On the outbreak of the First World War, Binding, a forty-six years old, became commander of a squadron of dragoons.

Except for a four-month period in Galicia in 1916, Binding spent the war on the Western Front.

In 1928 he won a silver medal in the art competitions of the Olympic Games for his "Reitvorschrift für eine Geliebte" (Rider's Instructions to his Lover).

[1] From 1933 his private secretary and English interpreter was Elisabeth Jungmann a Jewish German.

In October 1933 Binding signed the Gelöbnis treuester Gefolgschaft declaring loyalty and support to Adolf Hitler.