Garde-Reiter Memorial

The Guard Cavalry Memorial was ceremoniously inaugurated on Saturday, November 1, 1919. The ceremony took place at the same time as the dissolution of the traditional and proud Dresden Guard Cavalry Regiment and its transfer to the Reichswehr. Cavalry Regiment No. 12 then moved into the barracks, and in the 1930s the Wehrmacht took over the building. The inauguration of the first memorial for the fallen of the First World War in Dresden took place with great participation from the Dresden population. Among the numerous guests of honor were former members of the regiment, the Saxon officer corps with His Royal Highness Ernst Heinrich of Saxony, veterans and delegations from the Saxon military associations as well as relatives of the fallen. After military music and a speech by the court preacher, Pastor Keßler, the Guard General of the Cavalry Krug von Nidda explained the significance and 250-year history of the Guard Cavalry Regiment. Many artists, writers, master craftsmen, engineers and other important personalities, as well as Reserve Lieutenant Wilhelm Lossow himself, were members of this traditional military unit. A special honor was the reading of the names of those killed in the First World War: the 3 civil servants, 17 officers, 15 non-commissioned officers and 73 enlisted men of the Guard Cavalry Regiment.source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garde-Reiter-Denkmal

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