General der Flieger
# General der Flieger

General der Flieger (English: General of the aviators) 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.

## List of officers who were General der Flieger

* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* J
* K
* L
* M
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* V
* W
* Z

## A

* Alexander Andrae (1888–1979)

## B

* Karl Barlen (1890–1956)
* Hellmuth Bieneck (1887–1972)
* Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (1890–1979)
* Walter Boenicke (1895–1947)
* Rudolf Bogatsch (1891–1970)
* Alfred Bülowius (1892–1968)

## C

* Friedrich Christiansen (1879–1972)
* Friedrich Cochenhausen (1879–1946)
* Joachim Coeler (1891–1955)

## D

* Heinrich Danckelmann (1887–1947)
* Paul Deichmann (1898–1981)
* Egon Doerstling (1890–1965)
* Eduard Dransfeld (1883–1964)
* Karl Drum (1893–1968)

## E

* Karl Eberth (1877–1952)

## F

* Hellmuth Felmy (1885–1965)
* Martin Fiebig (1891–1947)
* Johannes Fink (1895–1981)
* Veit Fischer (1890–1966)
* Helmuth Förster (1889–1965)
* Stefan Fröhlich (1889–1978)
* Heribert Fütterer (1894–1963)

## G

* Hans Geisler (1891–1966)
* Ulrich Grauert (1889–1941) later promoted to Generaloberst

## H

* Wilhelm Haehnelt (1875–1946)
* Hans Halm (1879–1957)
* Friedrich-Carl Hanesse (1892–1975)
* Willi Harmjanz (1893–1983)
* Otto Hoffmann von Waldau (1898–1943)

## J

* Hans Jeschonnek (1899–1943), then a Generaloberst (1942)

## K

* Josef Kammhuber (1896–1986)
* Erich Karlewski (1874–1947)
* Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf (1881–1945)
* Leonhard Kaupisch (1878–1945)
* Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
* Ulrich Kessler (1894–1983)
* Karl Kitzinger (1886–1962)
* Waldemar Klepke (1882–1945)
* Robert Knauss (1892–1955)
* Karl Koller (1898–1951)
* Werner Kreipe (1904–1967)

## L

* Otto Langemeyer (1883–1950)
* Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942)

## M

* Alfred Mahnke (1888–1979)
* Wilhelm Mayer (1886–1950)
* Rudolf Meister (1897–1958)
* Erhard Milch (1892–1972) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
* Max Mohr (1884–1966)
* Walter Musshoff (1885–1971)

## P

* Erich Petersen (1889–1963)
* Kurt Pflugbeil (1890–1955)
* Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951)
* Richard Putzier (1890–1979)

## Q

* Erich Quade (1883–1959)

## R

* Georg Rieke (1894–1970)
* Hans Ritter (1893–1991)

## S

* Hugo Schmidt (1885–1964)
* Wilhelm Schubert (1879–1972)
* Julius Schulz (1889–1975)
* Karl Friedrich Schweickhard (1883–1968)
* Hans-Georg von Seidel (1891–1955)
* Hans Seidemann (1902–1967)
* Hans Siburg (1893–1976)
* Wilhelm Speidel (1895–1970)

## V

* Albert Vierling (1887–1969)

## W

* Bernhard Waber (1884–1945)
* Walther Wecke (1885–1943)
* Rudolf Wenninger (1890–1945)
* Helmuth Wilberg (1880–1941)
* Wilhelm Wimmer (1889–1973)
* Bodo von Witzendorff (1876–1943)
* Ludwig Wolff (1886–1950)

## Z

* Konrad Zander (1883–1947)
