''General der Luftwaffe'' (en: ''General of the air force'') was a
General of the branch
A general of the branch, general of the branch of service or general of the ... (where instead of the ellipsis an appropriate name of the military branch is being put) is a three or four-star general officer rank in some armies. Several nations d ...
rank of the
Deutsche Luftwaffe ''Luftwaffe'' is a generic German term for an air force
An air force – in the broadest sense – is the national military branch that primarily conducts aerial warfare. More specifically, it is the branch of a nation's armed services tha ...
(en: German Air Force) in Nazi Germany. Until the end of
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
in 1945, this particular general officer rank was on
three-star level (
OF-8), equivalent to a US
Lieutenant general
Lieutenant general (Lt Gen, LTG and similar) is a three-star military rank (NATO code OF-8) used in many countries. The rank traces its origins to the Middle Ages, where the title of lieutenant general was held by the second-in-command on th ...
.
The "General of the branch" ranks of the Luftwaffe were in 1945:
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General of parachute troops
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General of anti-aircraft artillery
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General of the aviators
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General of air force communications troops
* General of the air force
The rank was equivalent to the
General of the branch
A general of the branch, general of the branch of service or general of the ... (where instead of the ellipsis an appropriate name of the military branch is being put) is a three or four-star general officer rank in some armies. Several nations d ...
ranks of the ''
Heer'' (army) as follows:
;Heer:
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General of artillery
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General of mountain troops
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General of infantry General of the Infantry is a military rank of a General officer in the infantry and refers to:
* General of the Infantry (Austria)
* General of the Infantry (Bulgaria)
* General of the Infantry (Germany) ('), a rank of a general in the German Im ...
*
General of cavalry General of the Cavalry (german: General der Kavallerie) was a General officer rank in the cavalry in various states of which the modern states of German and Austria are successors or in other armies which used the German model. Artillery officers o ...
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General of the communications troops
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General of panzer troops (armoured troops)
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General of engineers
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General of the medical corps
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General of the veterinary corps
;Other services:
The rank was also equivalent to the German three-star ranks:
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''Admiral'' of the
Kriegsmarine
The (, ) was the navy of Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The was one of three official branches, along with the a ...
, equivalent to (US
Vice admiral) and
* ''
SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS'' in the ''Waffen-SS''.
Officers in this rank
See also
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General of the branch
A general of the branch, general of the branch of service or general of the ... (where instead of the ellipsis an appropriate name of the military branch is being put) is a three or four-star general officer rank in some armies. Several nations d ...
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Military ranks of the Luftwaffe (1935–45)
Literature
*Reinhard Stumpf: Die Wehrmacht-Elite - Rang und Herkunftsstruktur der deutschen Generale und Admirale 1933–1945, Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard/Rhein 1982.
*Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: Die Generale der Luftwaffe 1935–1945 (3 Bde.), Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1991.
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