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General der Panzertruppe

WW2-era German Army branch general rank


Summary

WW2-era German Army branch general rank

FieldValue
nameGeneral of the Armoured Corps
native_nameGeneral der Panzertruppe
countryNazi Germany
image
image_size100px
captionArabesque and flecktarn suit insignia
image2General (Wehrmacht) 1.svg
image_size2150px
caption2Army shoulder board
service branch
rankThree-star
formation1935
abolished1945
higher rankGeneraloberst
lower rankGeneralleutnant
equivalentsSee Rank and rank insignia

General der Panzertruppe () was a General of the branch rank of the German Army, introduced in 1935. A General der Panzertruppe was a lieutenant general, above major general (Generalleutnant), commanding a Panzer corps.

Rank and rank insignia

The rank was equivalent to the long established General der Kavallerie, General der Artillerie and General der Infanterie. The Wehrmacht also introduced General der Gebirgstruppe (mountain troops), General der Pioniere (engineers), General der Fallschirmtruppe (parachute troops), General der Flieger (aviators), General der Nachrichtentruppe (communications troops) and General der Luftnachrichtentruppe (air communications troops).

Position

In the present-day German Army, there is a General der Panzertruppen, which is not a rank but a position, who is usually a brigadier general (Brigadegeneral). The General der Panzertruppen commands the Armoured Corps Training Centre. In the Nazi-era Army, the equivalent position was called Generalinspekteur der Panzertruppe.

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 (1887–1968) (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 21/4/1944)
  • 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 30/11/1942, 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)

Literature

  • Reinhard Stumpf: Die Wehrmacht-Elite. Rang- und Herkunftsstruktur der deutschen Generale und Admirale 1933–1945. Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard am Rhein, 1982. .
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