VI Corps (German Empire)

For the equivalent formation in World War II, see VI Army Corps (Wehrmacht).
VI Army Corps
VI. Armee-Korps
Flag of the Staff of a Generalkommando (1871–1918)
Active1815 (1815)–1919 (1919)
Country Prussia /  German Empire
TypeCorps
SizeApproximately 44,000 (on mobilisation in 1914)
Garrison/HQBreslau/Schweidnitzer Straße 24
Shoulder strap pipingYellow
EngagementsAustro-Prussian War
Battle of Königgrätz

Franco-Prussian War

Siege of Paris
Battle of Chevilly

World War I

Battle of the Frontiers
Insignia
AbbreviationVI AK

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

VI AK originated in 1815 as the General Command for the Province of Silesia, with headquarters in Breslau.[1]

The Corps served in the Austro-Prussian War. During the Franco-Prussian War it was assigned to the 3rd Army.

In peacetime the Corps was assigned to the VIII Army Inspectorate but joined the 4th Army at the start of the First World War.[2] It was still in existence at the end of the war.[3] The Corps was disbanded with the demobilisation of the German Army after World War I.

  1. ^ German Administrative History Accessed: 31 May 2012
  2. ^ Cron 2002, p. 393
  3. ^ Cron 2002, pp. 88–89