() 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.
junior Rank(German officer rank)senior Rank
List of officers who were General der Flieger
A Alexander Andrae (1888–1979)
B (1890–1956) (1887–1972) Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (1890–1979) Walter Boenicke (1895–1947) Rudolf Bogatsch (1891–1970) Alfred Bülowius (1892–1968)
C Friedrich Christiansen (1879–1972) (1879–1946) Joachim Coeler (1891–1955)
D Heinrich Danckelmann (1887–1947) Paul Deichmann (1898–1981) (1890–1965) (1883–1964) (1893–1968)
E (1877–1952)
F Hellmuth Felmy (1885–1965) Martin Fiebig (1891–1947) Johannes Fink (1895–1981) (1890–1966) Helmuth Förster (1889–1965) Stefan Fröhlich (1889–1978) (1894–1963)
G Hans Geisler (1891–1966) Ulrich Grauert (1889–1941) later promoted to Hermann Göring (1893–1946) former a , later promoted to , and
H Wilhelm Haehnelt (1875–1946) (1879–1957) (1892–1975) (1893–1983) Otto Hoffmann von Waldau (1898–1943)
J Hans Jeschonnek (1899–1943) then a (1942)
K Josef Kammhuber (1896–1986) (1874–1947) Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf (1881–1945) Leonhard Kaupisch (1878–1945) Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall Ulrich Kessler (1894–1983) (1886–1962) (1882–1945) (1892–1955) Karl Koller (1898–1951) Werner Kreipe (1904–1967)
L (1883–1950) Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942)
M (1888–1979) (1886–1950) Rudolf Meister (1897–1958) Erhard Milch (1892–1972) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall (1884–1966) (1885–1971)
P Erich Petersen (1889–1963) Kurt Pflugbeil (1890–1955) Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951) (1890–1979)
Q (1883–1959)
R (1894–1970) (1893–1991)
S (1885–1964) (1879–1972) (1889–1975) (1883–1968) Hans-Georg von Seidel (1891–1955) Hans Seidemann (1902–1967) (1893–1976) (1895–1970)
V (1887–1969)
W Bernhard Waber (1884–1945) (1885–1943) (1890–1945) Helmuth Wilberg (1880–1941) (1889–1973) (1876–1943) Ludwig Wolff (1886–1950)
Z (1883–1947)
See also General (Germany) Comparative officer ranks of World War II
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