Armee-Korps) was a corps level command of the Prussian and then the Imperial German Armies from the 19th Century to World War I.
[2] It was still in existence at the end of the war[3] in the 7th Army, Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz on the Western Front.
[5] The 25 peacetime Corps of the German Army (Guards, I - XXI, I - III Bavarian) had a reasonably standardised organisation.
On mobilisation, VII Corps was assigned to the 2nd Army forming part of the right wing of the forces for the Schlieffen Plan offensive in August 1914 on the Western Front.
It was still in existence at the end of the war[13] in the 7th Army, Heeresgruppe Deutscher Kronprinz on the Western Front.