General der Flakartillerie

General of the Anti-aircraft Artillery General der Flakartillerie
Collar patch and flying suit insignia
Luftwaffe shoulder board
Country	Nazi Germany
Service branch	Luftwaffe
Rank	Three-star
NATO rank code	OF-8
Non-NATO rank	O-9
Formation	1939
Abolished	1945
Next higher rank	Generaloberst
Next lower rank	Generalleutnant
Equivalent ranks	See list

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

junior Rank Generalleutnant

(German officer rank) General der Flakartillerie

senior Rank Generaloberst

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

• 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)

See also

• General (Germany)

References

• Horst-Adalbert Koch: Flak - Die Geschichte der deutschen Flakartillerie und der Einsatz der Luftwaffenhelfer, 2. Auflage, Podzun Verlag, Bad Nauheim 1965

This page was last edited on 20 April 2022, at 09:58