List of German field marshals

The following list of German Field Marshals denotes those who have held the German rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

1 Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony
2 Electorate of Brandenburg and Kingdom of Prussia
3 Imperial Germany
4 Nazi Germany
5 Footnotes
6 See also

Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony

1. 21 June 1631 - Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1583–1641)

2. 24 November 1632 - Duke Franz Albrecht of Saxony-Lauenburg (1598–1642)

3. 19 October 1638 - Rudolf Graf von Marzin (also Marazin)

4. 1 January 1666 - Ernst Albrecht Freiherr von Eberstein (1605–1676)

5. 28 August 1681 - Joachim Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz (1620–1688)

6. 8 September 1688 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (1632–1706)

7. 9 April 1691 - Hans Adam von Schöning (1641–1696)

8. 10 May 1693 - Jeremias von Chauvet († 1696)

9. 30 September 1697 - Prince Heinrich VI of Reuss-Plauen (1649–1697)

10. 27 August 1699 - Adam Heinrich Graf von Steinau († 1712)

11. 3 December 1706 - Georg Benedikt Freiherr von Ogilvy (1651–1710)

12. 22 February 1712 - Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming

13. 17 April 1730 - Christoph August Graf von Wackerbarth (1662–1734)

14. 26 November 1735 - Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685–1746)

15. 11 January 1749 - Friedrich August Graf Rutowski (1702–1764)

16. 27 July 1763 - Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe (1704–1774)

17. 6 January 1775 - Prince Friedrich of Anhalt-Dessau (1705–1781)

18. 11 July 1871 - Crown Prince Albert (later King) of Saxony (1828–1902)

19. 15 June 1888 - Crown Prince Georg (later King) of Saxony (1832–1904)

Electorate of Brandenburg and Kingdom of Prussia

20 June 1657 - Otto Christoph von Sparr (1599-1668)
24 January 1670 - John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627-1693)
18 February 1670 - Georg Reichsfreiherr von Derfflinger (1606-1695)
28 June 1675 - Prince Friedrich II of Hessen-Homburg (1633-1708) (1811: Prince of the Drama from Heinrich von Kleist)
1 May 1688 - Hans Adam von Schöning (1641-1696)
12 March 1691 – Alexander Freiherr von Spaen (1619-1692)
1 May 1691 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (1632-1706)
1698 - Johann Albrecht Reichsgraf von Barfus (1634-1704)
23 March 1706 - Alexander Hermann Graf von Wartensleben (1650-1734)
1712 - Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau 1676-1747)
1713 - Carl Philipp Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum (1650-1719)
1713 - Alexander Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1661-1728)
1728 - Dubislaw Gneomar von Natzmer (1654-1739)
1733 - Albrecht Konrad Graf Finck von Finckenstein (1660-1735)
1737 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow (1678-1739)
1737 – Adrian Bernhard von Borcke (1668–1741),
1739 - Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665-1743)
1740 - Count Hans Heinrich Graf von Katte (1681-1741)
1740 - Count Kurt Christoph von Schwerin (1684-1757)
1741 - Caspar Otto von Glasenapp (1664-1747)
1741 - Samuel Reichsgraf von Schmettau (1684-1751)
16 May 1742 – Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690-1747); father of Empress Catherine II of Russia.
17 May 1742 – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700-1751)
15 January 1745 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow (1669–1758)
19 March 1745 - Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock (1672-1757)
24 May 1747 - Henning Alexander von Kleist (1676-1749)
1747 - Christoph Wilhelm von Kalckstein (1682-1759)
18 September 1747 - James Francis Edward Keith (1696-1758)
1751 - Friedrich Leopold Graf von Gessler (1688-1762)
1751 - Johann von Lehwaldt (1685-1768)
1757 - Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau (1712-1760)
November 1758 - Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1721-1792)
1787 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1735-1806)
1793 - Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf (1724-1816)
20 May 1798 Alexander von Knobelsdorff (1723-1799)
1805 - Wilhelm Magnus von Brünnecke (1727-1817)
21 July 1807 Wilhelm René de l'Homme de Courbière (1733-1811)
1807 Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth (1737-1818)
19 October 1813 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742-1819)
1821 - Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf, (1763-1823)
1821 - Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (1759-1830)
1825 - August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760-1831)
1839 - Hans Ernst Karl Graf von Zieten (1770-1848)
5 October 1847 Karl Freiherr von Müffling (1775-1851)
7 October 1847 - Hermann von Boyen (1771-1848)
9 October 1847 - Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck (1768-1848)
14 March 1854 - Friedrich Karl Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1784-1859)
5 August 1856 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784-1877)
28 October 1870 - Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828-1885)
28 October 1870 - Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (1831-1888)

also Imperial Germany:

1913 - HRH King Constantine I of Greece (1868-1923)
27 January 1916 - HIM Sultan Mehmed V of Turkey (1844-1918)
6 September 1918 - HIM Sultan Mehmed VI of Turkey (1861-1926)

Imperial Germany

8 April 1871 - Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1796-1884)
8 April 1871 - Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796-1877)
16 June 1871 - Helmuth Graf von Moltke (1800-1891)
11 July 1871 - Crown Prince Albert (later King) of Saxony
1 January 1873 - Albrecht Graf von Roon (1803-1879)
1873 - Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809-1885)
1888 - Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom)^[1]
15 March 1888 - Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810-1900)
15 March 1888 - Crown Prince Georg of Saxony
19 June 1888 - Prince Albrecht of Prussia
19 June 1888 - Archduke Albrecht of Austria
27 February 1895 - Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (1830-1916)
6 May 1900 - Alfred von Waldersee (1832-1904)
1 January 1905 - Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler (1836-1919)
1 January 1905 - Wilhelm von Hahnke (1833-1912)
1 January 1905 - Walter Freiherr von Loë (1828-1908)
9 September 1906 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850-1942)
20 April 1909 - King Carol I of Romania
1 January 1911 - Max von Bock und Pollach (1842-1915)
1 January 1911 - Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833-1913)
1 January 1911 - Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843-1916)
16 May 1911 - King George V of the United Kingdom
11 September 1912 - King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
8 August 1913 - King Constantine I of Greece
2 November 1914 - Paul von Hindenburg (1847-1934)
27 January 1915 - Karl von Bülow (1846-1921)
22 June 1915 - Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
22 June 1915 - August von Mackensen (1849-1945)
26 June 1915 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845-1921)
1916 - Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852-1925)
18 January 1916 - Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
1 February 1916 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
23 July 1916 - William II of Württemberg (1848-1921)
1 August 1916 - Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869-1955)
1 August 1916 - Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846-1930)
1 August 1916 - Duke Albrecht of Württemberg (1865-1939)
12 February 1917 - Emperor Karl of Austria (1887-1922)
18 December 1917 - Hermann von Eichhorn (1848-1918)
31 December 1917 - Remus von Woyrsch (1847-1920)

Nazi Germany

20 April 1936 - Werner von Blomberg (1878-1946)
4 February 1938 - Hermann Göring (1893-1946)
19 July 1940 - Fedor von Bock (1880-1945)
19 July 1940 - Walther von Brauchitsch (1881-1948)
19 July 1940 - Albert Kesselring (1885-1960)
19 July 1940 - Wilhelm Keitel (1882-1946)
19 July 1940 - Günther von Kluge (1882-1944)
19 July 1940 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876-1956)
19 July 1940 - Wilhelm List (1880-1971)
19 July 1940 - Erhard Milch (1892-1972)
19 July 1940 - Walther von Reichenau (1884-1942)
19 July 1940 - Gerd von Rundstedt (1875-1953)
19 July 1940 - Hugo Sperrle (1885-1953)
19 July 1940 - Erwin von Witzleben (1881-1944)
31 October 1940 - Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli (1856-1941)
22 June 1942 - Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)
30 June 1942 - Georg von Küchler (1881-1968)
1 July 1942 - Erich von Manstein (1887-1973)
31 January 1943 - Friedrich Paulus (1890-1957)
1 February 1943 - Ernst Busch (1885-1945)
1 February 1943 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954)
1 February 1943 - Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Weichs (1881-1954)
16 February 1943 - Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895-1945)
1 March 1944 - Walter Model (1891-1945)
5 April 1945 - Ferdinand Schörner (1892-1973)
25 April 1945 - Robert Ritter von Greim (1892-1945)

Footnotes

^ The Times, 28 June 1902.