Parachute General

Badge of rank until 1945

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General of the Parachute Force (OF8)

General of the parachute troops was a military rank in the German armed forces . This corresponds to the current rank of lieutenant general and was intended for the commanding general of a parachute corps or air force field corps within the air force of the Wehrmacht . The introduction of the rank took place with the renaming of the commanding general of the XI. Fliegerkorps and later Colonel General Kurt Student (before he was General der Flieger ) on May 1, 1943. Similar rank designations were introduced by the Wehrmacht for other branches of service (including General of the Panzer Troops , General of the Mountain Troops ).

Officers in this rank

• Kurt Student (1890–1978), appointed May 1, 1943, later Colonel General
• Alfred Schlemm (1894–1986), appointed January 1, 1944
• Eugen Meindl (1892–1951), appointed April 1, 1944
• Bruno Bräuer (1893–1947), appointed June 1, 1944
• Hermann-Bernhard Ramcke (1889–1968), appointed September 1, 1944
• Richard Heidrich (1896–1947), appointed October 31, 1944
• Paul Conrath (1896–1979), appointed January 1, 1945

See also

• Ranks of the armed forces
• Paratrooper (armed forces)

literature

• Dermot Bradley (ed.), Karl Friedrich Hildebrandt: The Generals of the Air Force 1935-1945. Biblio publishing house. Osnabrück 1991. 3 volumes. ISBN 3-7648-1701-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Reinhard Stumpf: The Wehrmacht Elite. Rank and origin structure of the German generals and admirals 1933–1945. Harald Boldt Verlag. Boppard am Rhein 1982. ISBN 3-7646-1815-9 . P. 172.