1st Infantry Division (Wehrmacht)

1st Infantry Division
1st Infantry Division
German: 1. Infanterie-Division
	Unit insignia
Active	October 1934 – 8 May 1945
Country	Nazi Germany
Branch	Heer ( Wehrmacht)
Type	Infantry
Size	Division
Garrison/HQ	Königsberg
Engagements	Memelland occupation; World War II Invasion of Poland Battle of Mława; Siege of Warsaw; ; Battle of France; German-Soviet War Operation Barbarossa; Siege of Leningrad; Kamenets-Podolsky pocket; ; ;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Georg von Küchler; Walther Schroth; Joachim von Kortzfleisch; Philipp Kleffel; Friedrich Altrichter; Martin Grase; Ernst-Anton von Krosigk; Henning von Thadden

The 1st Infantry Division (German: 1. Infanterie-Division) was an infantry division that notably served in World War II as part of the Heer of Nazi Germany's Wehrmacht. It had been one of the original infantry divisions of the Reichswehr.

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