1st Guard Infantry Division (Germany)
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1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß (Painture of Carl Röchling, 1894)

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

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The Division was created following reorganization on September 5, 1818 of the brigades (previously grouped into Armie Korps) to assume designation as divisions. The foot regiments and batteries of the Prussian Guard were grouped into the Garde Division.[1]

Wars of unification

Imperial German Army before 1918

The division was a unit in the Guard Corps of the Imperial German Army. At the outbreak of the First World War it was commanded by Gen-Lt. von Hutier.

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