3rd Guards Infantry Division (German Empire)

3rd Guards Infantry Division (*3. Garde-Infanterie-Division*)
3rd Guards Infantry Division (3. Garde-Infanterie-Division)
Active	1914-1919
Country	Prussia/Germany
Branch	Army
Type	Infantry
Size	Approx. 15,000
Engagements	World War I: 1st Masurian Lakes,; Łódź (1914),; Gorlice-Tarnów Offensive,; Somme,; Battle of Delville Wood,; Arras (1917),; Passchendaele,; Cambrai (1917), German spring offensive,; Aisne-Marne,; Meuse-Argonne Offensive;
Commanders
Notable; commanders	Karl Litzmann (1914)

The 3rd Guards Infantry Division (3. Garde-Infanterie-Division) was a unit of the German Army, in World War I. The division was formed on the mobilization of the German Army in August 1914 as part of the Guards Reserve Corps. The division was disbanded in 1919, during the demobilization of the German Army after World War I. It was a division of the Prussian Guards and was thus raised and recruited throughout the Kingdom of Prussia from the elite of recruits.

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