General der Luftwaffe

General officer rank in the Luftwaffe branch of the German Wehrmacht

General of the Air Force
General der Luftwaffe

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
Next higher rank| Generaloberst
Next lower rank| Generalleutnant
Equivalent ranks| See list

General der Luftwaffe (en: General of the air force) was a General of the branch rank of the Deutsche 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 Luftwaffe

| senior Rank
Generaloberst

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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.

## Officers in this rank

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Name | Dates of life | Promotion | Remark

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Wilhelm Schubert [de] | 1879–1972 | July 1, 1942 | Expert of war economy and armament
Walther Wecke [de] | 1885–1943 | December 1, 1942 | First commanding officer of the Hermann Görings police Stabswache

## See also

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* General of the branch
* Military ranks of the Luftwaffe (1935–45)

## Literature

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* Reinhard Stumpf: Die Wehrmacht-Elite - Rang und Herkunftsstruktur der deutschen Generale und Admirale 1933–1945, Harald Boldt Verlag, Boppard/Rhein 1982. ISBN 3-7646-1815-9
* Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: Die Generale der Luftwaffe 1935–1945 (3 Bde.), Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1991. ISBN 376481701-1

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