General der Panzertruppe

General der Panzertruppe (Literally: General of the Armoured Corps) was a rank of German Army General introduced by the Wehrmacht in 1935. As the commander of a Panzer Corp this rank corresponds to a US Army Lieutenant-General. With the formation of the Bundeswehr in 1955, general ranks were changed to follow US Army structure hence a General moved up one position to command of an army, a position formerly held by a Generaloberst.

The rank was equivalent to the long established General der Kavallerie, General der Artillerie and General der Infanterie. The Wehrmacht also introduced General der Gebirgstruppen (mountain troops), General der Pioniere (engineers), General der Fallschirmtruppen (parachute troops), General der Flieger (aviators) and General der Nachrichtentruppen (communications troops).

Bundeswehr

In the modern German Army of the Bundeswehr, there is a General der Panzertruppen who is usually a brigadier general (Brigadegeneral).

List

The following officers were General der Panzertruppe:

• Hans-Jürgen von Arnim (1889-1962) (Promoted Generaloberst 4/12/1942)
• Hermann Balck (1893–1982)
• Erich Brandenberger (1882–1955)
• Hermann Breith (1892–1964)
• Hans Cramer (1896–1968)
• Ludwig Crüwell (1892–1958)
• Karl Decker (1897–1945) (committed suicide)
• Heinrich Eberbach (1895–1992)
• Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Edelsheim (1897–1994)
• Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck (1892–1955)
• Gustav Fehn (1892–1945) (executed by partisans)
• Ernst Feßmann (1881–1962)
• Wolfgang Fischer (1888–1943)
• Walter Fries (1894–1982)
• Hans Freiherr von Funck (1891–1979)
• Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886–1974)
• Fritz-Hubert Graeser (1888–1960)
• Heinz Wilhelm Guderian (1888–1954) (Promoted Generaloberst 1941)
• Josef Harpe (1887-1986) (Promoted Generaloberst 20/5/1944)
• Sigfrid Henrici (1889–1964)
• Traugott Herr (1890–1976)
• Alfred Ritter von Hubicki (1887–1971)
• Hans-Valentin Hube (1890-1944) (Promoted Generaloberst 20/4/1944, killed in plane crash 21/04/1944)
• Georg Jauer (1896–1971)
• Werner Kempf (1886–1964)
• Mortimer von Kessel (1893–1981)
• Friedrich Kirchner (1885–1960)
• Ulrich Kleemann (1892–1963)
• Otto von Knobelsdorff (1886–1966)
• Walter Krüger (1892–1973)
• Friedrich Kühn (1889–1944) (killed in bombing raid)
• Adolf-Friedrich Kuntzen (1889–1964)
• Willibald Freiherr von Langermann und Erlencamp (1890–1942)
• Joachim Lemelsen (1888–1954)
• Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1896–1969)
• Smilo Freiherr von Lüttwitz (1895–1975)
• Oswald Lutz (1876–1944)
• Hasso von Manteuffel (1897–1978)
• Karl Mauss (1898–1959)
• Walter Model (1891–1945) (Promoted Generaloberst 28/2/1942, Generalfeldmarschall 1/3/1944)
• Walther Nehring (1892–1983)
• Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957) (Promoted Generaloberst, Generalfeldmarschall 30/1/1943)
• Georg-Hans Reinhardt (1887-1963) (Promoted Generaloberst 1/1/1942)
• Erwin Rommel (1891-1944) (Promoted Generaloberst 24/1/1942, Generalfeldmarschall 2/6/1942, committed suicide 14/10/1944)
• Hans Röttiger (1896–1960)
• Dietrich von Saucken (1892–1980)
• Ferdinand Schaal (1889–1962)
• Rudolf Schmidt (1886-1957) (Promoted Generaloberst 1/1/1942)
• Gerhard von Schwerin (1899–1980)
• Frido von Senger und Etterlin (1891–1963)
• Georg Stumme (1886-1942)
• Horst Stumpff (1887-1958)
• Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma (1891–1948)
• Gustav von Vaerst (1894–1975)
• Rudolf Veiel (1883-1956)
• Heinrich von Vietinghoff (1887-1952) (Promoted Generaloberst 1/9/1943)
• Nikolaus von Vormann (1895-1959)
• Walther Wenck (1900-1982)

Gallery

See also

• General (Germany)

Source

• This page is a translation of its German equivalent.