For other states with the same rank, see General of the Cavalry.
General of the Cavalry (German language: General der Kavallerie) was a General officer rank in the Imperial Army, the interwar Reichswehr, and the Wehrmacht. It was the second-highest General officer rank below Generaloberst. Artillery officers of equivalent rank were called General der Artillerie, and infantry officers of equivalent rank General der Infanterie. The Wehrmacht also created General der Panzertruppen (tank troops), General der Gebirgstruppen (mountain troops), General der Pioniere (engineers), General der Flieger (aviators), General der Fallschirmtruppen (parachute troops), and General der Nachrichtentruppen (communications troops)
Junior Rank Generalleutnant |
Rank General of the Cavalry |
Senior Rank Generaloberst |
List of officers who were General der Kavallerie[]
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B[]
- Friedrich von Bernhardi (1849–1930)
- Moritz von Bissing (1844–1917)
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- Friedrich August Peter von Colomb (1775–1854)
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- Georg Graf von der Decken (1787–1859)
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- Karl von Einem (1853–1934)
- Rudolf Koch-Erpach (1886–1971)
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- Max von Fabeck (1854–1916)
- Hans Feige (1880–1953)
- Kurt Feldt (1897–1970)
- Rudolf von Frommel (1857–1921)
G[]
- Otto von Garnier (1859–1947)
- Ludwig Freiherr von Gebsattel (1857–1930)
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- Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler (1836–1919)
- Erick-Oskar Hansen (1889–1967)
- Gustav Harteneck (1892–1984)
- Philipp von Hellingrath (1862–1939)
- Erich Hoepner (1886–1944)
- Ernst von Hoeppner (1860–1922)
- Leonhard von Hohenhausen (1788–1872)
- Gustav von Hollen (1851–1917)
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K[]
- Philipp Kleffel (1887–1964)
- Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954)
- Rudolf Koch-Erpach (1886–1971)
- Carl-Erik Koehler (1895–1958)
- Otto Kreß von Kressenstein (1850–1929)
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- Maximilian von Laffert (1855–1917)
- Georg Lindemann (1884–1963)
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- August von Mackensen (1849–1945)
- Eberhard von Mackensen (1889–1969)
- Georg von der Marwitz (1856–1929)
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P[]
- Curt von Pfuel (1849–1936)
- Ernst Ludwig von Pfuel (1716−1798)
- Georg Adam von Pfuel (1618–1672)
- Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931)
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R[]
- Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen (1855–1939)
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- Maximilian von Speidel (1856–1943)
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W[]
- Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904)
- Maximilian von Weichs (1881–1954) (Later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall)
- Siegfried Westphal (1902–1982)
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Z[]
- Christian von Zweibrücken (1782–1859)
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