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{{Short description|Former branch general rank in the German Army}}
{{Unreferenced|date=February 2012}}
{{Infobox military rank
| name           = General of the Artillery
| native_name    = {{Lang|de|General der Artillerie|italic=no}}
| country        = {{flag|German Empire}}
*{{flag|Kingdom of Prussia}}
*{{flag|Kingdom of Bavaria}}
*{{flag|Kingdom of Saxony}}
*{{flag|Kingdom of Württemberg}}
{{flag|Weimar Republic}}
{{flag|Nazi Germany}}
| image         = General (Wehrmacht) 1.svg
| image_size    = 150px
| caption       = [[Shoulder board]] insignia
| image2          =  [[File:Collar tabs for the Generals of the Heer.svg|70px]] 
| image_size2     = 100px
| caption2        = [[Arabesque (disambiguation)#Military|Arabesque]] [[gorget patch]] insignia
| service branch = {{army|German Empire}}<br />{{army|Prussia}}<br />{{army|Kingdom of Bavaria}}<br />{{flagicon|Kingdom of Saxony}} [[Royal Saxon Army|Saxon Army]]<br />{{army|Württemberg}}<br />{{army|Weimar Republic}}<br />{{army|Nazi Germany}}
| abbreviation   = 
| rank           = [[Three-star rank|Three-star]]
| NATO rank      = [[Ranks and insignia of NATO armies officers#Officers (OF 1–10)|OF-8]]
| Non-NATO rank  = [[Three-star rank|O-9]]
| formation      = 
| abolished      = 
| higher rank    = {{Lang|de|[[Generaloberst]]}}
| lower rank     = {{Lang|de|[[Generalleutnant]]}}
| equivalents    = ''See list''
}}

'''{{Lang|de|General der Artillerie|italic=no}}''' ([[English language|en]]: General of the artillery) may mean:

A rank of [[three-star rank|three-star]] [[General of the branch|general]], comparable to modern armed forces [[OF-8]] grade, in the [[Imperial German Army]] and its contingency armies of [[Prussian Army|Prussia]], [[Bavarian Army|Bavaria]], [[Saxon Army|Saxony]] and [[Army of Württemberg|Württemberg]]. It also was used in the [[Reichswehr]] and the [[Wehrmacht]]. The second-highest regular rank below {{Lang|de|[[Colonel General|Generaloberst]]|italic=no}}; cavalry officers of equivalent rank were called ''[[General of the Cavalry (Germany)|general of the cavalry]]'', and infantry officers of equivalent rank ''[[General of the Infantry (Germany)|general of the infantry]]''.  The Wehrmacht also had ''[[General der Panzertruppe]]n'' (tank troops), ''[[General der Gebirgstruppe]]n'' (mountain troops), {{Lang|de|[[General der Pioniere]]}} (engineers), ''[[General der Nachrichtentruppe]]n'' (communications troops) and several branch variants for the [[Luftwaffe]]. 

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|width="30%" align="center" style="background:#cfcfcf;"|junior Rank<br>'''{{Lang|de|[[Generalleutnant]]}}'''
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{{small|([[World War II German Army ranks and insignia#Ranks and rank insignia|German officer rank]])}}<br />'''{{Lang|de|General der Artillerie}}'''
|width="30%" align="center" style="background:#afafaf;"|senior Rank<br>'''{{Lang|de|[[Generaloberst]]}}'''
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In the modern {{Lang|de|Bundeswehr}}, ''General der Artillerie'' is the position of an artillery officer responsible for certain questions of troop training and equipment, usually with the rank of [[Brigadier General|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 {{Lang|de|General der Artillerie|italic=no}} is unorthodox, since it does not refer to a rank.

Today in the {{Lang|de|[[Bundeswehr]]}}, the rank of [[lieutenant general]] corresponds to the traditional rank of general of the artillery. There was no equivalent rank in the [[National People's Army|army]] of [[East Germany]], where it was merged into that of {{Lang|de|Generaloberst|italic=no}}.

== List of officers who were General der Artillerie ==
{{Compact ToC|d=|i=|n=|q=|u=|x=|y=}}
<!---Only those who held it in sense 1, not sense 2--->

== A ==
* [[Alexander Andrae]] (1888–1979)
* [[Maximilian de Angelis]] (1889–1974)

== B ==
* [[Paul Bader]] (1883–1971)
* [[Anton Reichard von Mauchenheim genannt Bechtolsheim]] (1896–1961)
* [[Karl Heinrich Emil Becker|Karl Becker]] (1879–1940), [[Heereswaffenamt]]
* [[Hans Behlendorff]] (1889–1961)
* [[Wilhelm Berlin]] (1889–1987)
* [[Friedrich von Boetticher]] (1881–1967)
*[[Hans von Bülow (general)|Hans von Bülow]] (1816-1897)

== C ==
* [[Eduard Crasemann]] (1891–1950)

== E ==
* [[Theodor Endres]] (1876–1956)
* [[Erwin Engelbrecht]] (1891–1964)

== F ==
* [[Wilhelm Fahrmbacher]] (1888–1970)
* [[Maximilian Felzmann]] (1894–1962)
* [[Maximilian Fretter-Pico]] (1892–1984)
* [[Werner von Fritsch]] (1880–1939); later Generaloberst

== G ==
* [[Curt Gallenkamp]] (1890–1958)
* [[Max von Gallwitz]] (1852–1937)
* [[Theodor Geib]] (1888–1944)
* [[Hans von Gronau]] (1850–1940)

== H ==
* [[Christian Hansen (general)|Christian Hansen]] (1885–1972)
* [[Otto Hartmann (general)|Otto Hartmann]] (1884–1952)
* [[Walter Hartmann]] (1891–1977)
* [[Friedrich-Wilhelm Hauck]] (1897–1979)
* [[Ernst-Eberhard Hell]] (1887–1973)
* [[Kurt Herzog]] (1889–1948)
* [[Maximilian Ritter von Höhn]] (1859–1936)
* [[Prince Kraft of Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen]] (1827–1892)

== J ==
* [[Wilhelm Keitel]] (1882 – 1946); later Generalfeldmarschall
* [[Curt Jahn]] (1892–1966)
* [[Alfred Jodl]] (1890 – 1946); later Generaloberst

== K ==
* [[Rudolf Kaempfe]] (1893–1962)
* [[Leonhard Kaupisch]] (1878–1945)
* [[Walter Keiner]] (1890–1978)
* [[Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen]] (1862–1953)
* [[Friedrich Freiherr Kress von Kressenstein]] (1870–1948)
* [[Georg von Küchler]] (1881–1968), later Generalfeldmarschall

== L ==
* [[Emil Leeb]] (1881–1969)
* [[Eduard von Lewinski]] (1829–1906)
* [[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)
* [[Max Ludwig (general)|Max Ludwig]] (1871–1961)

== M ==
* [[Erich Marcks]] (1891–1944)
* [[Robert Martinek]] (1889–1944)
* [[Horst von Mellenthin]] (1898–1977)
* [[Heinrich Meyer-Buerdorf]] (1888-1971)
* [[Willi Moser]] (1887–1946)
* [[Eugen Müller]] (1891–1951)

== O ==
* {{ill|Herbert Osterkamp|de}} (1894–1959)

== P ==
* [[Walter Petzel]] (1883–1965)
* [[Max Pfeffer]] (1883–1955)
* [[Georg Pfeiffer]] (1890–1944)

== R ==
* [[Friedrich von Rabenau]] (1884–1945); killed in a concentration camp
* [[Antoni Wilhelm Radziwiłł]] (1833–1904)
* [[Walther von Reichenau]] (1884–1942); later Generalfeldmarschall
* [[Rudolf Freiherr von Roman]] (1893–1970)

== S ==
* [[Friedrich von Scholtz]] (1851–1927)
* [[Walther von Seydlitz-Kurzbach]] (1888–1976)
* [[Johann Sinnhuber]] (1887–1979)
* [[Hermann Ritter von Speck]] (1888–1940)
* [[Hans Speth]] (1897–1985)
* [[Hermann von Stein (1854–1927)|Hermann von Stein]] (1854–1927)
* [[Wilhelm Stemmermann]] (1888–1944)

== T ==
* [[Gerhard Tappen]] (1866–1953); by [[Brevet (military)|brevet]]
* [[Siegfried Thomaschki|Siegfried Paul Leonhard Thomaschki]] (1894–1967)
* [[Johann Nepomuk von Triva]] (1755–1827)

== V ==
* {{ill|Alfred von Vollard-Bockelberg|de}} (1874–1945), [[Heereswaffenamt]]

== W ==
* {{ill|Kurt Waeger|de}} (1893–1952)
* [[Eduard Wagner]] (1894–1944), Generalquartiermeister des Heeres, committed suicide
* [[Martin Wandel]] (1892–1943)
* [[Walter Warlimont]] (1894–1976)
* [[Helmuth Weidling]] (1891–1955), later Kampfkommandant of Berlin Defense Area 
* [[Albert Wodrig]] (1883–1972)
* [[Rolf Wuthmann]] (1893–1977)

== Z ==
* [[Heinz Ziegler]] (1894–1972)

==See also==
*[[General (Germany)]]
*[[General of the branch]]
*[[Military ranks of the German Empire]]
*[[Military ranks of the Weimar Republic]]
*[[Ranks and insignia of the German Army (1935–1945)]]
{{General ranks of the Wehrmacht}}

[[Category:Three-star officers]]
[[Category:Military ranks of Germany]]
[[Category:Three-star officers of Nazi Germany]]
[[Category:Lists of generals]]