General der Flakartillerie
# General der Flakartillerie

General der Flakartillerie (en: General of anti-aircraft artillery) was a General of the branch rank of the Luftwaffe (en: German 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.

## List of officers who were General der Flakartillerie

* A
* B
* D
* G
* H
* O
* P
* R
* S
* W
* Z

## A

* Walther von Axthelm (1893-1972)

## B

* Heinrich Burchard (1894-1945)

## D

* Otto Deßloch (1889-1977) (later promoted to Generaloberst)

## G

* Hugo Grimme (1872-1943)

## H

* Alfred Haubold (1887-1969)
* Friedrich Heilingbrunner (1891-1977)
* Friedrich Hirschhauer (1883-1979)
* Gerhard Hoffmann (1887-1969)

## O

* Job Odebrecht (1892-1982)

## P

* Wolfgang Pickert (1897-1984)

## R

* Richard Reimann (1892-1970)
* Otto Wilhelm von Renz (1891-1968)
* Helmut Richter (1891-1977)
* Karl von Roques (1880-1949) (Reentered the Wehrmacht as a General der Infanterie)
* Günther Rüdel (1883-1950) (later promoted to Generaloberst)
* Camillo Ruggera (1885-1947)

## S

* August Schmidt (1883-1955)
* Ludwig von Schröder (1884-1941)

## W

* Hubert Weise (1884-1950) (later promoted to Generaloberst)
* Eugen Weissmann (1892-1951)

## Z

* Emil Zenetti (1883-1945)
