Col Carl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld (died 2 September 1884 as field marshal) 4 May 1850 – 4 November 1851: Col Eduard von Brauchitsch (died 3 November 1869 as infantry general) 4 November 1851 – 5 August 1856: Colonel Count Albert von Blumenthal (died 30 June 1860 as lieutenant general) 5 August 1856 – 22 March 1859: Col Friedrich Wilhelm Johann Ludwig Freiherr Hiller von Gaertringen (died 3 July 1866 as lieutenant general and commander of the 1st Guard Infantry Division) 22 March 1859 – 7 March 1863: Col Karl Graf von der Goltz (died January 1881 as lieutenant general) 7 March 1863 – 18 May 1867: Col Bernhard von Kessel III (died 7 June 1882 as infantry general, adjutant-general) 18 May 1867 – 18 August 1870: Col Victor Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Dietrich von Roeder (died 18 August 1870, shot in the head at St. Privat) 18 August – 11 December 1870: von Oppell (acting commander) 11 December 1870 – 12 December 1874: Col Oktavio Philipp von Boehn 12 December 1874 – 28 October 1875: Col. Anton Wilhelm Karl von L'Estocq (latterly also as general of the infantry) 28 October 1875 – 19 October 1876: Lt. Col Otto von Derenthall (acting commander) 20 September 1876 – 23 November 1882: Col Otto von Derenthall 23 November 1882 – 27 January 1888: Col Oskar von Lindequist 27 January 1888 – 9 February 1891: Col Hans von Plessen 9 February 1891 – 9 February 1893: Col Oldwig Wilhelm Ferdinand von Natzmer (died 1899 as lieutenant general) 9 February 1893 – 21 March 1896: Col Gustav Emil Bernhard Bodo von Kessel (latterly as lieutenant general and Commander of the 1. Guards Infantry Division) 21 March 1896 – 15 June 1898: Col Georg von Kalckstein (latterly as lieutenant general and commander of the 13. Infantry Division) 15 June 1898: Lt. Col Karl Freiherr von Plettenberg 22 March 1902: Gustav Freiherr von Berg 16 October 1906: Karl Freiherr von Willisen 22 March 1910: Friedrich von Kleist 20 March 1911: Friedrich von Friedeburg 1 August 1914: Eitel Friedrich Prince of Prussia 14 November 1914 Friedrich von Bismarck (killed at Bouvincourt, acting commander) 6 November 1916: Siegfried Graf zu Eulenburg-Wicken (acting commander) 28 April 1917: (ad interim) Friedrich Franz Adolf von Stephani (acting commander) 7 July 1917 – 11 December 1918: Siegfried Graf zu Eulenburg-Wicken (acting commander) 27 August 1918: (ad interim) Friedrich Franz Adolf von Stephani (acting