General der Flieger

Not to be confused with General of Fighters or General of Combat Flight.

General der Flieger (literally: General of the Flyers) was a General’s rank of the German Luftwaffe. Until the end of WW2, the German rank of General was a 3-star rank, equivalent to a US Lieutenant general. The German equivalent of a US 4-star General was a Generaloberst.

The rank was equivalent to the long established General der Kavallerie, General der Artillerie and General der Infanterie. The Wehrmacht also introduced General der Gebirgstruppen (mountain troops), General der Pioniere (engineers), General der Fallschirmtruppen (parachute troops), General der Nachrichtentruppen (communication troops), and General der Panzertruppen (armored troops).

A

• Alexander Andrae (1888–1979)

B

• Karl Barlen (1890–1956)
• Hellmuth Bieneck (1887–1972)
• Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (1890–1979)
• Walter Boenicke (1895–1947)
• Rudolf Bogatsch (1891–1970)
• Alfred Bülowius (1892–1968)

C

• Friedrich Christiansen (1879–1972)
• Friedrich Cochenhausen (1879–1946)
• Joachim Coeler (1891–1955)

D

• Heinrich Danckelmann (1887–1947)
• Paul Deichmann (1898–1981)
• Egon Doerstling (1890–1965)
• Eduard Dransfeld (1883–1964)
• Karl Drum (1893–1968)

E

• Karl Eberth (1877–1952)

F

• Hellmuth Felmy (1885–1965)
• Martin Fiebig (1891–1947)
• Johannes Fink (1895–1981)
• Veit Fischer (1890–1966)
• Helmuth Förster (1889–1965)
• Stefan Fröhlich (1889–1978)
• Heribert Fütterer (1894–1963)

G

• Hans Geisler (1891–1966)
• Ulrich Grauert (1889–1941) later promoted to Generaloberst

H

• Wilhelm Haehnelt (1875–1946)
• Hans Halm (1879–1957)
• Friedrich-Carl Hanesse (1892–1975)
• Willi Harmjanz (1893–1983)
• Otto Hoffmann von Waldau (1898–1943)

J

• Hans Jeschonnek (1899–1943)
• Werner Junck (1895–1976)

K

• Josef Kammhuber (1896–1986)
• Erich Karlewski (1874–1947)
• Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf (1881–1945)
• Leonhard Kaupisch (1878–1945)
• Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
• Ulrich Kessler (1894–1983)
• Karl Kitzinger (1886–1962)
• Waldemar Klepke (1882–1945)
• Robert Knauss (1892–1955)
• Karl Koller (1898–1951)
• Werner Kreipe (1904–1967)

L

• Otto Langemeyer (1883–1950)
• Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942)

M

• Alfred Mahnke (1888–1979)
• Wilhelm Mayer (1886–1950)
• Rudolf Meister (1897–1958)
• Erhard Milch (1892–1972) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
• Max Mohr (1884–1966)
• Walter Musshoff (1885–1971)

P

• Erich Petersen (1889–1963)
• Kurt Pflugbeil (1890–1955)
• Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951)
• Richard Putzier (1890–1979)

Q

• Erich Quade (1883–1959)

R

• Georg Rieke (1894–1970)
• Hans Ritter (1893–1991)

S

• Hugo Schmidt (1885–1964)
• Wilhelm Schubert (1879–1972)
• Julius Schulz (1889–1975)
• Karl Friedrich Schweickhard (1883–1968)
• Hans-Georg von Seidel (1891–1955)
• Hans Seidemann (1902–1967)
• Hans Siburg (1893–1976)
• Wilhelm Speidel (1895–1970)

Z

• Konrad Zander (1883–1947)

See also

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