Infanterie-Division) was a pre-World War II German Infantry Division of the 1st mobilisation wave (1.

Volksgrenadier-Division) on September 17, 1944, near Poznań by absorption of the new 582nd Volksgrenadier Division of the 32nd mobilisation wave (32.

The 26th Infantry Division spent the early war years on the Western Front, taking part in the Battle of France in May/June 1940, first under the command of the Sixteenth Army (16.

The division was transferred to the Eastern Front in June 1941 to serve under Army Group Centre (Heeresgruppe Mitte).

This new division spent the rest of the war on the Western Front under Army Group B (Heeresgruppe B) until it entered U.S. captivity in the Harz in 1945.