General der Gebirgstruppe
General of the mountain troops was a military rank in the German Wehrmacht. Similar ranks were introduced in the Wehrmacht for other branches of service. There was in the Army General of the Infantry, Cavalry General, General of Artillery, General of Panzer troops, the Engineer General, General of the Signal Corps and in the Air Force Luftwaffe General, General of the flak, General of the paratroops and general of the air corps. In the same rank was the admiral in the Navy.
The next lower rank was lieutenant general, the next higher Colonel General.
Officers in this grade
- Eduard Dietl (1890-1944), appointed on 19 July 1940 later Colonel-General
- Franz Böhme (1885-1947), appointed on August 1, 1940
- Ludwig Kübler (1889-1947), appointed on August 1, 1940
- Valentin Feuerstein (1885-1970), appointed on November 1, 1941
- Rudolf Konrad (1891-1964), appointed on March 1, 1942
- Schörner Ferdinand (1892-1973), appointed on 1 June 1942 later Field Marshal
- Karl Hubert Lanz (1896-1982), appointed on January 28, 1943
- Hans Kreysing (1890-1969), appointed on November 1, 1943
- Georg Ritter von Hengl (1897-1952), appointed on January 1, 1944
- Karl Eglseer (1890-1944), appointed on March 1, 1944
- Alfred Julius Ringel (1889-1967), appointed on June 1, 1944
- Ferdinand Jodl (1896-1956), appointed on September 1, 1944
- Karl Hans Maximilian von Le Suire (1898-1954), appointed on October 1, 1944
- Kurt Versock (1895-1963), appointed on November 1, 1944
- Hans Schlemmer (1893-1973), appointed on November 9, 1944
- Emil Vogel (1894-1985), appointed on November 9, 1944
- Friedrich Jobst Volckamer of Kirchensittenbach (1894-1989), appointed on January 1, 1945
- August Winter (1897-1979), appointed on 1 May 1945