I Corps (German Empire)

I Army Corps
I. Armee-Korps
Flag of the Staff of a Generalkommando (1871–1918)
Country Prussia /  German Empire
TypeCorps
SizeApproximately 44,000 (on mobilisation in 1914)
Garrison/HQKönigsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia)/Vorder-Roßgarten 54
Shoulder strap pipingWhite
EngagementsAustro-Prussian War
Battle of Trautenau
Battle of Königgrätz

Franco-Prussian War

Battle of Noiseville
Battle of Gravelotte
Siege of Metz
Battle of Amiens (1870)
Battle of Hallue
Battle of St. Quentin (1871)

World War I

Battle of Stallupönen
Battle of Gumbinnen
Battle of Tannenberg (1914)
First Battle of the Masurian Lakes
Insignia
AbbreviationI AK

The I Army Corps / I AK (German: I. Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th Century to World War I.

It was established with headquarters in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad, Russia). Initially, the Corps catchment area comprised the entire Province of East Prussia, but from 1 October 1912 the southern part of the Province was transferred to the newly formed XX Corps District.[1]

In peacetime, the Corps was assigned to the I Army Inspectorate, which became the 8th Army at the start of the First World War.[2] The corps was still in existence at the end of the war,[3] and was disbanded with the demobilisation of the German Army after World War I.

  1. ^ German Administrative History Archived 13 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine Accessed: 5 June 2012
  2. ^ Cron 2002, p. 392
  3. ^ Cron 2002, pp. 88–89