Notable Commanders
- August Wilhelm Graf von Kanitz (1839–1842) - later Prussian Minister of War (1848)
- August von Stockhausen (1848) - later Prussian Minister of War (1850–1851)
- Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1857–1863) - later a Generalfeldmarschall
- Julius von Verdy du Vernois (1883–1887) - military theorist, Prussian Minister of War (1889–1890)
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