1st Guards Infantry Division (German Empire)


The 1st Guards Infantry Division was a unit of the Prussian Imperial German Army and was stationed in Berlin.

Lineage

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

Imperial German Army before 1918

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.