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Beubler’
68.
Regensburg
 
 
69.
Hagen (Westf.)
 
 
70.
Glogau
 
 
71.
Elbing
 
  1. ‘Ernst Ludwig’
72.
Detmold
 
 
73.
Ansbach
 
 
74.
Greifswald
 
 
75.
Berlin
 
  8. ‘Edmund Behnke’
76.
Salzburg
 
 
77.
Schneidmühl
 
 
78.
Wiesbaden
 
 
79.
Ulm
 
 
80.
Berlin
 
 
81.
Würzburg
 
  2. ‘Hans Purps’
82.
Bielefeld
 
 
83.
Giessen
 
 
84.
Chemnitz
 
  4. ‘Grobe’
 
 
 
  9. ‘Steinbach’
 
 
 
11. ‘Ludwig Frisch’
85.
Saarbrücken
 
 
86.
Offenburg
 
 
87.
Innsbruck
 
 
88.
Bremen
 
 
89.
Wien
‘Holzweber’
 
90.
Klagenfurt
‘Franz Kutschera’
 
91.
Wittenberg
 
 
92.
Ingolstadt
 
 
93.
Koblenz
 
 
94.
Leoben
 
 
95.
Trautenau
 
 
96.
Brüx
 
 
97.
Eger
 
 
98.
Mährisch-Schönberg
 
 
99.
Znaim
 
 
100.
Reichenberg
 
 
101.
Saaz
 
 
102.
Jägerndorf
 
 
103.
Aussig
 
 
104.
Troppau
 
 
105.
Memel
 
 
106.
Augsburg
 
 
107.
Brünn
 
 
108.
Prag
 
 
109.
Posen
 
 
110.
Hohensalza
 
 
111.
Kolmar
 
 
112.
Litzmannstadt
 
 
113.
Kalisch
 
 
114.
Lesslau
 
 
115.
Zichenau
 
 
116.
Bromberg
 
 
117.
Konitz
 
 
118.
Pr. Stargard
 
 
119.
Graudenz
 
 
120.
Kulm
 
 
121.
Strasburg
 
 
122.
Strassburg
 
 
123.
Kolmar
 
 
124.
Scharley
 
 
125.
Metz
 
 
126.
Marburg/Drau
 
 
127.
Oslo
 
 
    It will be noted that a few of the larger towns and cities had more than one Fuss-Standarte.
    As well as the Fuss-Standarten, there were twenty-three Allgemeine-SS cavalry units of regimental size, the Reiterstandarten. Each comprised from five to eight Reiterstürme (cavalry companies), a Sanitätsreiterstaffel (medical squad) and a Trompeterkorps (trumpet corps). The Reiterstandarten were never concentrated in their HQ cities, the component companies usually being dispersed among smaller towns of the Abschnitte. They were always basically ceremonial in function, with a distinctly snobbish outlook, and were seldom if ever used to assist the Fuss-Standarten and police in domestic crowd control. The Inspector of SS Cavalry Training was the equestrian SS-Brigadeführer Christian Weber, one of the Old Guard Stosstrupp men and veteran of the Munich putsch. He set up the Main SS Cavalry School, or SS-Hauptreitschule, in Munich which was commanded by Hermann Fegelein until 1939. After the outbreak of war, the majority of members of the Reiterstandarten were conscripted into army cavalry units, or into the hastily mustered SS-Totenkopfreiterstandarten for front-line service. In 1941, the latter amalgamated to form the Waffen-SS Cavalry Brigade which by 1942 had expanded to become the SS-Kavallerie-Division, named ‘Florian Geyer’ in 1944. All of these formations were commanded during the various stages of their development by Fegelein, whose ever-strengthening position in Nazi circles culminated in his marriage on 3 June 1944 to Gretl Braun, sister of Hitler’s mistress. The Allgemeine-SS Reiter-standarten were numbered from 1 to 23, each number being prefixed by the letter ‘R’ to distinguish them from the Fuss-Standarten. Their headquarters were located as follows:

    A kettle-drummer of the SS-Kavallerie-Division in October 1942. The drum cover was made from black velvet with heavy aluminium wire embroidery, and its design had remained unchanged since 1934.
Standarte No .
HQ
R.1
Insterburg
R.2
Danzig
R.3
Treuburg
R.4
Hamburg
R.5
Stettin
R.6
Düsseldorf
R.7
Berlin
R.8
Pelkum
R.9
Bremen
R.10
Arolsen
R.11
Breslau
R.12
Schwerin
R.13
Frankfurt