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The '''XIX (2nd Royal Saxon) Army Corps / XIX AK''' ({{lang-de|'''XIX. (2. Königlich Sächsisches) Armee-Korps'''}}) was a [[Kingdom of Saxony|Saxon]] [[corps]] level command of the [[German Empire|German]] [[German Army (German Empire)|Army]], before and during [[World War I]].
As the German Army expanded in the latter part of the 19th Century and early part of the 20th Century, the XIX Army Corps was set up on 1 April 1899 in [[Leipzig]], [[Saxony]] as the ''Generalkommando'' ([[headquarters]]) for the western part of the [[Kingdom of Saxony]] (districts of [[Leipzig]], [[Chemnitz]] and [[Zwickau]]).<ref>[http://www.verwaltungsgeschichte.de/militaer.html German Administrative History] Accessed: 10 May 2012</ref> It took over command of [[24th Division (German Empire)|24th (2nd Royal Saxon) Division]] from [[XII (1st Royal Saxon) Corps]] and the newly formed [[40th Division (German Empire)|40th (4th Royal Saxon) Division]].
It was assigned to the [[German_Army_(German_Empire)#Army_inspectorate|II Army Inspectorate]]<ref>{{harvnb|Cron|2002|p=395}}</ref> which formed the predominantly Saxon [[3rd Army (German Empire)|3rd Army]] at the start of the [[First World War]]. It was still in existence at the end of the war<ref>{{harvnb|Cron|2002|pp=88-89}}</ref> in the [[19th Army (German Empire)|19th Army]], ''[[Heeresgruppe Herzog Albrecht von Württemberg]]'' on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]].<ref>{{harvnb|Ellis|Cox|1993|pp=186-187}}</ref>
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