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1st Guards Infantry Division (German Empire)

1st Guards Infantry Division
1. Garde-Infanterie-Division
Parade 1894.JPG
1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß (Painting by Carl Röchling, 1894)
Active 5 September 1818 – 30 April 1919
Country Prussia
Germany
Branch Prussian Army
Imperial German Army
Type Infantry
Size Approx. 18,000
Part of Guards Corps
Garrison/HQ Berlin
Engagements World War I
Commanders
Notable
commanders
Helmuth von Moltke the Younger

The 1st Guards Infantry Division (German: 1. Garde-Infanterie-Division) was a unit of the Prussian (and later) Imperial German Army and was stationed in Berlin.

The division was created on September 5, 1818. In the reorganization the guards brigades, that previously had been assigned to various corps, and batteries of the Prussian Guards were grouped into a single formation.

By 1914 the division was subordinate to the Guards Corps of the Imperial German Army. At the outbreak of the First World War it was commanded by Gen-Lt. Oskar von Hutier.


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