General of the Artillery (Germany)

General der Artillerie
(General of artillery)

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Rank insignia of the Heer

General der Artillerie (en: General of the artillery) may mean:

1. A rank of three-star general, comparable to modern armed forces OF-8 grade, in the Imperial Army, Reichswehr or Wehrmacht - the second-highest regular rank below Generaloberst. Cavalry officers of equivalent rank were called general of the cavalry, and infantry officers of equivalent rank general of the infantry. The Wehrmacht also had General der Panzertruppen (tank troops), General der Gebirgstruppen (mountain troops), General der Pioniere (engineers), General der Fallschirmtruppen (parachute troops), General der Nachrichtentruppen (communications troops). Today in the Bundeswehr, the rank of lieutenant general corresponds to the traditional rank of general of the artillery. There was no equivalent rank in the army of East Germany, where it was merged into that of Generaloberst.

junior Rank Generalleutnant

(German officer rank) General der Artillerie

senior Rank Generaloberst

2. in the Bundeswehr, the position of an artillery officer responsible for certain questions of troop training and equipment, usually with the rank of Brigadegenerals. The position of general of the artillery is connected with that of commander of the artillery school. Corresponding service positions also exist for other branches of the army. Since in this usage it refers to a position not a rank, an Oberst is sometimes "General of" his respective type of troops. The form of address is usually Herr General and/or Herr Oberst ; the form of address Herr General der Artillerie is unorthodox, since it does not refer to a rank.

List of officers who were General der Artillerie

Contents 

• A
• B
• C
• D
• E
• F
• G
• H
• I
• J
• K
• L
• M
• N
• O
• P
• Q
• R
• S
• T
• U
• V
• W
• X
• Y
• Z

A

• Alexander Andrae (1888–1979)
• Maximilian de Angelis (1889–1974)

B

• Karl Becker (1879–1940), Heereswaffenamt
• Hans Behlendorff (1889–1961)
• Wilhelm Berlin (1889–1987)
• Friedrich von Boetticher (1881–1967)

C

• Eduard Crasemann (1891–1950)

E

• Theodor Endres (1876–1956)
• Erwin Engelbrecht (1891–1964)

F

• Maximilian Felzmann (1894–1962)
• Maximilian Fretter-Pico (1892–1984)

G

• Curt Gallenkamp (1890–1958)

H

• Christian Hansen (1885–1972)
• Walter Hartmann (1891–1977)
• Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck (1897–1979)
• Ernst-Eberhard Hell (1887–1973)
• Kurt Herzog (1889–1948)

J

• Curt Jahn (1892–1948)
• Alfred Jodl (1890 – 1946); date of rank, 19 July 1940.

K

• Walter Keiner (1890–1978)

L

• Emil Leeb (1881–1969)
• Fritz Lindemann (1890–1944)
• Christian Nicolaus von Linger (1669–1755), first officer to hold the rank of General of the Artillery in the Prussian Army
• Herbert Loch (1886–1976)
• Walter Lucht (1882–1949)

M

• Erich Marcks (1891–1944)
• Anton Reichard von Mauchenheim (1896–1961)
• Horst von Mellenthin (1898–1977)
• Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf (1888-1971)
• Willi Moser (1887–1946)

O

• Herbert Osterkamp (1894–1959)

P

• Max Pfeffer (1883–1955)
• Georg Pfeiffer (1890–1944)

R

• Friedrich von Rabenau (1884–1945); killed in a concentration camp.
• Walther von Reichenau ((1884 – 1942); date of rank, 1 October 1936; promoted to Generalfeldmarschall, 19 July 1940.
• Rudolf Freiherr von Roman (1893–1970)

S

• Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach (1888–1976)
• Hermann Ritter von Speck (1888–1940)

T

• Siegfried Paul Leonhard Thomaschki (1894–1967)

V

• Alfred von Vollard-Bockelberg (1874–1945), Heereswaffenamt

W

• Kurt Waeger (1893–1952)
• Eduard Wagner (1894–1944), Generalquartiermeister des Heeres, committed suicide
• Walter Warlimont (1894–1976)
• Helmut Weidling (1891–1955), later Kampfkommandant of Berlin
• Rolf Wuthmann (1893–1977)

Z

• Heinz Ziegler (1894–1972)

See also

• General (Germany)
• Comparative officer ranks of World War II