1. Lothar Engelhardt (1939)

German General

German military scientist who was Germany's last Commander in Chief of the National People's Army.

2. Heinz Guderian (1888)

German General

Remembered as a proponent of tank warfare, this general in the German Wehrmacht frequently came into conflict with Adolf Hitler over Hitler's management of the Nazi military forces. Over the course of...

3. Kurt Meyer (1910)

German General

Kurt Meyer nicknamed Panzermeyer served as an officer in the Waffen-SS during the Second World War. He saw action in many major battles including the Invasion of France Operation Barbarossa...

4. Bogusław Fryderyk Radziwiłł (1809)

German General

Bogusław Fryderyk Radziwiłł was a Polish nobleman and Prussian military officer and politician. At the time Poland was partitioned he lived in the Kingdom of Prussia where he was a...

5. Wilhelm Koppe (1896)

German General

Karl Heinrich Wilhelm Koppe was a German National Socialist German Workers' Party commander who was responsible for numerous atrocities against Poles and Jews in Reichsgau Wartheland and the General Government...

6. Werner Best (1903)

German General

Dr. Werner Best was a German National Socialist German Workers' Party jurist police chief SS-Obergruppenführer and National Socialist German Workers' Party Party leader from Darmstadt Hesse. He studied law and...

7. Walter Schellenberg (1910)

German General

Schellenberg was a German SS-Brigadeführer who rose through the ranks of the SS to become the head of foreign intelligence following the abolition of the Abwehr in 1944.

8. Max Hoffmann (1869)

German General

Max Hoffmann was a German officer and military strategist during World War I. He is widely regarded as one of the finest staff officers of the imperial period.

9. Gerhard von Scharnhorst (1755)

German General

Gerhard Johann David Waitz von Scharnhorst usually known as Scharnhorst was a general in Prussian service Chief of the Prussian General Staff noted for his military theories his reforms of...

10. Günter Voigt (1955)

German General

Günter Voigt is a military scientist a retired major general and his last assignment was to Deputy Commander in Chief and Chief of Staff of the National People's Army Air...

11. Albrecht Konrad Finck von Finckenstein (1660)

German General

Albrecht Konrad Reinhold Finck von Finckenstein was a Prussian nobleman Field Marshal and statesman. Finck von Finckenstein came from ancient Prussian nobility or according to the Imperial Count Diploma originally...

12. Gerhard von Schwerin (1899)

German General

Gerhard Helmuth Detloff Graf von Schwerin was a German army General in World War II. As General der Panzertruppe he was tasked with defending the city of Aachen while in...

13. Lothar Debes (1890)

German General

SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Lothar Debes was German Heer and Waffen-SS officer who served in both World War I and World War II. In World War II Debes commanded...

14. Carl-Alfred Schumacher (1896)

German General

Generalmajor Carl-Alfred Schumacher was born 19 February 1896 in Rheine and died 22 May 1967 in Bad Godesberg. During World War II Schumacher served in the German Luftwaffe commanding the...

15. Walther Bronsart von Schellendorff (1833)

German General

z Georg Bronsart von Schellendorff Dr. jur.

16. Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz (1795)

German General

Moritz Karl Ernst von Prittwitz Royal Prussian Lieutenant-General of Infantry supervised the building of the large fortress in Ulm admitted to the Order of St. John as a Knight of...

17. Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1796)

German General

Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld was a Prussian field marshal.

18. Karl Eberhard Schöngarth (1903)

German General

Karl Georg Eberhard Schöngarth was a German National Socialist German Workers' Party appointed SS-Brigadeführer und Generalmajor der Polizei on Himmler’s orders in 1943. He was a war criminal who perpetrated...

19. Nikolaus von Maillot de la Treille (1774)

German General

Nikolaus Hubert Freiherr von Maillot de la Treille was a Bavarian lieutenant general and War Minister under Maximilian I Joseph and Ludwig I of Bavaria.

20. Walter Schreiber (1893)

German General

Dr Walter Paul Emil Schreiber was a National Socialist German Workers' Party German military officer in World War II and brigadier-general of the Medical Service of the Wehrmacht.

21. Wilhelm Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand von Rohr (1783)

German General

Eugen Ludwig Ferdinand von Rohr was a Prussian general and minister of war.

22. Philipp Bouhler (1899)

German General

Philipp Bouhler was a senior National Socialist German Workers' Party Party official who was both a Reichsleiter and Chief of the Chancellery of the Führer of the NSDAP. He was...

23. Hermann von Boyen (1771)

German General

Leopold Hermann Ludwig von Boyen was a Prussian army officer who helped to reform the Prussian Army in the early 19th century. He also served as minister of war of...

24. Albrecht von Roon (1803)

German General

Albrecht Theodor Emil Graf von Roon was a Prussian soldier and statesman. As Minister of War from 1859 to 1873 Roon along with Otto von Bismarck and Helmuth von Moltke...

25. Albrecht von Stosch (1818)

German General

Albrecht von Stosch was a German General of the Infantry and Admiral who served as first chief of the newly created Imperial German Navy from 1872 to 1883. Born in...

26. Hartmut Bagger (1938)

German General

Hartmut Bagger is a retired German general. He served as Chief of Staff of the Army from 1994 to 1996 and Chief of Staff of the German armed forces the...

27. Lothar Rendulic (1887)

German General

Lothar Rendulic was an army group commander in the German Army during World War II. Rendulic was one of three Austrians who rose to the rank of Generaloberst in the...

28. Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof (1939)

German General

Gerd Schultze-Rhonhof is a German author and former Generalmajor in the German Army of the Bundeswehr.

29. Josef Bühler (1904)

German General

Josef Bühler was a secretary and deputy governor to the National Socialist German Workers' Party-controlled General Government in Kraków during World War II.

30. Walther Reinhardt (1872)

German General

Gustav Reinhardt was a German officer who served as the last Prussian Minister of War and the first head of the army command within the newly created Ministry of the...

31. Wilhelm Friedrich Loeper (1883)

German General

Loeper was a National Socialist German Workers' Party politician and a National Socialist German Workers' Party Gauleiter in the Gau of Magdeburg-Anhalt.

32. Carl Blumenreuter (1881)

German General

Carl Blumenreuter was a German chemist and politician. He served as a SS-Gruppenführer and SS-Chefapotkeker for the National Socialist German Workers' Party Party. Blumenreuter studied the Nahrungsmittelchemie. He received special...

33. Adalbert von Bredow (1814)

German General

Adalbert von Bredow was a German cavalry officer.

34. Moritz von Bissing (1844)

German General

Moritz Ferdinand Freiherr von Bissing was a Prussian General.

35. Alexander von Falkenhausen (1878)

German General

Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann Freiherr von Falkenhausen was a German general. He was an important figure during the Sino-German cooperation to reform the Chinese Army. During World War II Germany...

36. Karl Hanke (1903)

German General

Karl August Hanke was an official of the National Socialist German Workers Party. He served as governor of Lower Silesia from 1941 to 1945 and as the final Reichsführer-SS for...

37. Moritz von Spies (1805)

German General

Moritz Ritter von Spies was a Bavarian Major General and War Minister for two times under Maximilian II of Bavaria.

38. Hugo Blaschke (1881)

German General

Dr Hugo Johannes Blaschke was a German dental surgeon notable for being Adolf Hitler’s personal dentist from 1933 to April 1945 and for being the chief dentist on the staff...

39. Walther von Lüttwitz (1859)

German General

von Lüttwitz or Walther Freiherr von Lüttwitz was a German general who fought in World War I. Lüttwitz is best known for being the driving force between the Kapp-Lüttwitz Putsch...

40. Wilhelm von Dörnberg (1768)

German General

Caspar Ferdinand Freiherr von Dörnberg was a German general. He was also known as 'Aufstandsdörnberg' or 'Uprising Dörnberg' for his part in the German campaign of the Napoleonic Wars. He...

41. Berthold von Deimling (1853)

German General

Berthold Karl Adolf von Deimling was a general officer of the German Army during World War I. Deimling entered the army in 1871 following the Franco-Prussian War and after working...

42. Karl Haushofer (1869)

German General

Karl Ernst Haushofer was a German general geographer and geopolitician. Through his student Rudolf Hess Haushofer's ideas may have influenced the development of Adolf Hitler's expansionist strategies although Haushofer denied...

43. Alexander von Spaen (1619)

German General

Alexander Freiherr von Spaen was a Generalfeldmarschall of Brandenburg-Prussia. Spaen was born in the Duchy of Cleves as the son of Bernhard von Spaen the lord of Kreuzfort. By 1650...

44. Wilhelm Murr (1888)

German General

Murr was a National Socialist German Workers' Party German politician. From 1928 until his death he was Gauleiter of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and from early 1933 held the offices of State President...

45. Harald Kujat (1942)

German General

Harald Kujat is a retired German general. He served as Chief of Staff of the German armed forces the Bundeswehr from 2000 to 2002 and as Chairman of the NATO...

46. Alfred Jodl (1890)

German General

Alfred Josef Ferdinand Jodl was a German military commander attaining the position of Chief of the Operations Staff of the Armed Forces High Command during World War II acting as...

47. Joseph Berchtold (1897)

German General

Joseph Berchtold a former stationery salesman succeeded Julius Schreck as Reichsführer SS in 1926. He was the last surviving person to hold that rank and the only one to survive...

48. Wilhelm von Le Suire (1787)

German General

von Le Suire was a Bavarian Lieutenant General War Minister under Otto of Greece during 1834 and under Maximilian II of Bavaria from November 21 1848 to May 29 1849.

49. Maximilian Vogel von Falckenstein (1839)

German General

Maximilian Eduard August Hannibal Kunz Sigismund Vogel von Falkenstein was a Prussian General der Infanterie and politician. Falckenstein was born in Berlin as the son of the Prussian general Eduard...

50. Karl von Einem (Unknow)

German General

Karl von Einem genannt von Rothmaler was the commander of the German 3rd Army during the First World War and served as the Prussian Minister of War responsible for much...