Guards Corps (German Empire)
The Guards Corps/GK was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th century to World War I.
2nd Ox and Bucks defeating the Prussian Guard at Nonne Bosschen. Painting by William Barnes Wollen (1857–1936)
The Imperial German Army (1871–1919), officially referred to as the German Army, was the unified ground and air force of the German Empire. It was established in 1871 with the political unification of Germany under the leadership of Prussia, and was dissolved in 1919, after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I (1914–1918). In the Federal Republic of Germany, the term Deutsches Heer refers to the German Army, the land component of the Bundeswehr.
German Army hussars on the attack during maneuvers, 1912
Draftees of the German Army, 1898
German infantry charging across open ground on the battlefield, 1914
Imperial and state cockades