Reichswehr-Brigade 21 München of the Vorläufige Reichswehr was formed June 1919 from the Freikorps unit Bayerisches Schützenkorps.

It merged with Reichswehr-Brigade 22 Oct 1919 into Reichswehr-Brigade 21 of the Übergangsheer.

It was used to form 7. Division Oct 1920.

Wehrkreis

VII

Order of battle (Vorläufige Reichswehr)

1. bayer. Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 41

2. bayer. Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 42

Bayer. Reichswehr-Jäger-Btl 21

Bayer. Reichswehr-Kavallerie-Regiment 21

1. bayer. leichtes Artillerie-Regiment 21

1. bayer. schwere Artillerie-Abteilung 21

Order of battle (Oct 1919, Übergangsheer)

Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 41

Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 42

Reichswehr-Kavallerie-Regiment 21

leichtes Reichswehr-Artillerie-Regiment 21

Reichswehr-Pionier-Btl 21

Order of battle (May 1920, Übergangsheer)

Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 41

Reichswehr-Schützen-Regiment 42

Reichswehr-Artillerie-Regiment 21

Notable members

Carl-Maria Demelhuber (Served in Artillerie-Regiment 21, later corps-commander in the Waffen-SS)

Alfred Jodl (Generaloberst, sentenced to death as a major war criminal at the Nuremberg war crime trials in 1946)

August Schmidhuber (Served in Infanterie-Regiment 42, later division-commander in the Waffen-SS)

Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (Commander of the ground contingent of the German Legion Condor during the Spanish Civil War)

Sources used

Andris J. Kursietis - Between Kaiser and Führer: The history of the German Army 1919-1933

Georg Tessin - Deutsche Verbände und Truppen 1918-1939

Mark C. Yerger - Waffen-SS Commanders: The army, corps and divisional leaders of a legend (2 vol)

Reference material on this unit

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