General of the mountain troops

General of the mountain troops was a military rank in the German armed forces . Similar ranks were introduced in the Wehrmacht for other branches of service. There was the army general of the infantry , the cavalry general , General of Artillery , General of the Armored Corps , the Engineer General , General of the signal corps and the air force Luftwaffe General , General of the flak , General of the paratroops and general air signal corps . The admiral was of the same rank in the Navy.

The next lower rank was Lieutenant General , the next higher Colonel General .

Officers in this rank

Eduard Dietl (1890–1944), appointed on July 19, 1940, later Colonel General
Franz Böhme (1885–1947), appointed August 1, 1940
Ludwig Kübler (1889–1947), appointed August 1, 1940
Valentin Feurstein (1885–1970), appointed September 1, 1941
Rudolf Konrad (1891–1964), appointed March 1, 1942
Ferdinand Schörner (1892–1973), appointed June 1, 1942, later General Field Marshal
Emmerich von Nagy (1882–1965), appointed August 1, 1942
Hubert Lanz (1896–1982), appointed January 28, 1943
Hans Kreysing (1890–1969), appointed November 1, 1943
Georg Ritter von Hengl (1897–1952), appointed January 1, 1944
Karl Eglseer (1890–1944), appointed March 1, 1944
Julius Ringel (1889–1967), appointed June 1, 1944
Ferdinand Jodl (1896–1956), appointed September 1, 1944
Karl von Le Suire (1898–1954), appointed October 1, 1944
Kurt Versock (1895–1963), appointed November 1, 1944
Hans Schlemmer (1893–1973), appointed November 9, 1944
Emil Vogel (1894–1985), appointed November 9, 1944
Friedrich Jobst Volckamer von Kirchensittenbach (1894–1989), appointed January 1, 1945
August Winter (1897–1979), appointed May 1, 1945

Andris J. Kursietis: The Wehrmacht at War 1939–1945. Aspect, Soesterberg / Netherland 1999, ISBN 90-75323-38-7 .