General der Flieger
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Script error: No such module "Lang". (Template:Langx) was a General of the branch rank of the Luftwaffe (air force) in Nazi Germany. Until the end of World War II in 1945, this particular general officer rank was on three-star level (OF-8), equivalent to a US Lieutenant general.
The "General of the branch" ranks of the Luftwaffe were in 1945:
- General of parachute troops
- General of anti-aircraft artillery
- General of the aviators
- General of air force communications troops
- General of the air force
The rank was equivalent to the General of the branch ranks of the Heer (army) as follows:
- Heer
- General of artillery
- General of mountain troops
- General of infantry
- General of cavalry
- General of the communications troops
- General of panzer troops (armoured troops)
- General of engineers
- General of the medical corps
- General of the veterinary corps
- Other services
The rank was also equivalent to the German three-star ranks:
- Admiral of the Kriegsmarine, equivalent to (US Vice admiral) and
- SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS.
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List of officers who were General der Flieger
A
- Alexander Andrae (1888–1979)
B
- Template:Ill (1890–1956)
- Template:Ill (1887–1972)
- Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (1890–1979)
- Walter Boenicke (1895–1947)
- Rudolf Bogatsch (1891–1970)
- Alfred Bülowius (1892–1968)
C
- Friedrich Christiansen (1879–1972)
- Template:Ill (1879–1946)
- Joachim Coeler (1891–1955)
D
- Heinrich Danckelmann (1887–1947)
- Paul Deichmann (1898–1981)
- Template:Ill (1890–1965)
- Template:Ill (1883–1964)
- Template:Ill (1893–1968)
E
- Template:Ill (1877–1952)
F
- Hellmuth Felmy (1885–1965)
- Martin Fiebig (1891–1947)
- Johannes Fink (1895–1981)
- Template:Ill (1890–1966)
- Helmuth Förster (1889–1965)
- Stefan Fröhlich (1889–1978)
- Template:Ill (1894–1963)
G
- Hans Geisler (1891–1966)
- Ulrich Grauert (1889–1941) later promoted to Script error: No such module "Lang".
H
- Wilhelm Haehnelt (1875–1946)
- Template:Ill (1879–1957)
- Template:Ill (1892–1975)
- Template:Interlanguage link (1893–1983)
- Otto Hoffmann von Waldau (1898–1943)
J
- Hans Jeschonnek (1899–1943), then a Script error: No such module "Lang". (1942)
K
- Josef Kammhuber (1896–1986)
- Template:Ill (1874–1947)
- Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf (1881–1945)
- Leonhard Kaupisch (1878–1945)
- Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
- Ulrich Kessler (1894–1983)
- Template:Ill (1886–1962)
- Template:Ill (1882–1945)
- Template:Ill (1892–1955)
- Karl Koller (1898–1951)
- Werner Kreipe (1904–1967)
L
- Template:Ill (1883–1950)
- Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942)
M
- Template:Ill (1888–1979)
- Template:Ill (1886–1950)
- Rudolf Meister (1897–1958)
- Erhard Milch (1892–1972) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
- Template:Ill (1884–1966)
- Template:Ill (1885–1971)
P
- Erich Petersen (1889–1963)
- Kurt Pflugbeil (1890–1955)
- Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951)
- Template:Ill (1890–1979)
Q
- Template:Ill (1883–1959)
R
- Template:Ill (1894–1970)
- Template:Ill (1893–1991)
S
- Template:Ill (1885–1964)
- Template:Ill (1879–1972)
- Template:Ill (1889–1975)
- Template:Ill (1883–1968)
- Hans-Georg von Seidel (1891–1955)
- Hans Seidemann (1902–1967)
- Template:Ill (1893–1976)
- Template:Ill (1895–1970)
V
- Template:Ill (1887–1969)
W
- Bernhard Waber (1884–1945)
- Template:Ill (1885–1943)
- Template:Ill (1890–1945)
- Helmuth Wilberg (1880–1941)
- Template:Ill (1889–1973)
- Template:Ill (1876–1943)
- Ludwig Wolff (1886–1950)
Z
- Template:Ill (1883–1947)