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Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division (also Division Heuduck des Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Korps) was formed in December 1918 from the Imperial Garde-Kavallerie-Division. It took part in putting down the spartacist rising. Waldemar Pabst, chief-of-staff of the unit, coordinated the hunt for the leaders Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht and ordered their murder once they were caught. It once again saw action in Berlin Mar 1919.
It was used to form Reichswehr-Brigade 30 and Reichswehr-Brigade 31 June 1919.
Below are photos of the memorial put up where Karl Liebknecht was murdered, a similar one was placed in memory of Rosa Luxemburg.
The text on it reads: "Am Abend des 15. Januar 1919 wurden Dr. Karl Liebknecht und Dr. Rosa Luxemburg von Soldaten und Offizieren der Garde-Kavallerie-Schützen-Division mißhandelt und ermordet. Rosa Luxemburg, tödlich verwundet oder tot, wurde von ihren Mördern neben der Lichtensteinbrücke in den Landwehrkanal geworfen. Der andere Teil dieses Mahnmals, wenige hundert Meter südlich, kennzeichnet diesen Bereich. Karl Liebknecht wurde hier, am Ort dieses Mahnmals, erschossen. Im Kampf gegen Unterdrückung, Militarismus und Krieg starb der überzeugte Sozialist Karl Liebknecht als Opfer eines heimtückischen politischen Mordes. Die Mißachtung des Lebens und die Brutalität gegen den Menschen lassen die Fähigkeit der Menschen zur Unmenschlichkeit erkennen. Sie kann und darf kein Mittel irgendeiner Konfliktlösung sein und bleiben. Berlin, 1987"
Translation: "On the evening of January 15, 1919, Dr. Karl Liebknecht and Dr. Rosa Luxemburg were abused and murdered by soldiers and officers of the Garde-Kavarerie-Schütze Division. Rosa Luxemburg, either mortally wounded or dead, was thrown into the Landwehr Canal near the Lichtenstein Bridge. The other portion of this memorial, less than one hundred meters to the South, marks this spot. Karl Liebknecht was shot here, at the spot of this memorial. The ardent Socialist Karl Liebknecht died in a battle against oppression, militarism and war. The contempt for life and the brutality against human beings reveals the capacity of mankind for inhumanity. It can not be and must not remain a means of resolving any sort of conflict."
Formed in the area of Generalkommando des Garde-Korps (Berlin)
Order of battle Kavallerie-Schützen-Kommando 11 Freiw.Lehr-Inf.Reg Freiw.Drag.Schtz.Btl. 8 Kavallerie-Schützen-Kommando 14 Freiw.Schtz.Btl.Hus. 8 Freiw.Schtz.Btl.Hus. 11 Freiw.Schtz.Btl. Ulan 5 Kavallerie-Schützen-Kommando 38 Freiw.Schtz.Btl.Kür 4 Freiw.Schtz.Btl.Jäger zu Pferde 2 Freiw.Schtz.Btl.Jäger zu Pferde 6 Brigade Taysen Freiwilligen Detachement Küntzel Kampfwagen Abteilung Körting (later Kommand der Kampfwagenabteilungen or Kokampf) Freikorps Löschebrand Freikorps Kleiwitz Freikorps Gentner Freiw. 3. Garde-Feldart.Rgt. Freiw.Esk. 1. Garde.Drag. und 2. Garde-Drag.
Notable members Generalleutnant Karl Angerstein (Luftwaffe) SS-Brigadeführer Dr. Curd Brand SS-Oberführer Otto Brass Admiral Wilhelm Canaris (served as liaison officer) Reichsgesundheitsführer & SS-Obergruppenführer Dr Leonardo Conti SS-Untersturmführer Kurt Eggers (Poet and war correspondent, the unit SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers was named for him after his death in 1943) Generalleutnant Konrad Goltz (Luftwaffe) Generaloberst Ulrich Grauert (Luftwaffe) Generalleutnant Walter von Hippel (Luftwaffe) General der Flieger Otto Hoffmann von Waldau (Luftwaffe) Generaloberst Erwin Jaenecke SS-Brigadeführer Hans Kehrl General der Flieger Ulrich Kessler SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Polizei Dr Heinrich Lankenau Reichstag deputy Reinhard Neubert SS-Brigadeführer & Generalmajor der Polizei Curt Pohlmeyer SS-Oberführer Erich Schrage SS-Oberführer Otto Teetzmann (the ranks are the highest ranks reached in the Third Reich era)
Insignia A pair of metal collar badges in the form of a silver eight-pointed star with a M.1916 helmet in the center surrounded by a band bearing the initials “G.K.S.D.”, all set upon a double spray of oak leaves.
Published sources used Nigel Jones - The birth of the Nazis: How the Freikorps blazed a trail for Hitler Georg Tessin - Deutsche Verbände und Truppen 1918-1939 Robert Thomas & Stefan Pochanke - Handbuch zur geschichte der Deutschen Freikorps Robert G. L. Waite - Vanguard of Nazism: The Free Corps Movement in Postwar Germany 1918-1923
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