List of German colonel generals
Third Reich -- Heer
Table:
Promoted
Name
Born
Died

Notes

20 Apr 1936
Werner von Fritsch
1880
1939
Commander-in-Chief of the Oberkommando des Heeres

1 Nov 1938
Ludwig Beck
1880
1944
Chief of the German General Staff

1 Jan 1939
Wilhelm Adam
1877
1949
Commander-in-Chief of the Heeresgruppe 2 in Kassel (1938)

1 Oct 1939
Johannes Blaskowitz
1883
1948
8th Army (Wehrmacht) - 9th Army (Wehrmacht) - 1st Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group G - Army Group H - 25th Army (Wehrmacht)

19 July 1940
Friedrich Dollmann
1882
1944
7th Army (Wehrmacht)

19 July 1940
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst
1885
1968
Army HC Norwegen

19 July 1940
Friedrich Fromm
1888
1945
Replacement Army

19 July 1940
Heinz Guderian
1884
1954
Panzer Group Guderian - 2nd Panzer Army -Chief of the German General Staff

19 July 1940
Curt Haase
1881
1943
15th Army (Wehrmacht)

19 July 1940
Franz Halder
1884
1972
Chief of the German General Staff

19 July 1940
Hermann Hoth
1885
1971
17th Army (Wehrmacht) - 4th Panzer Army - Panzer Group Hoth

19 July 1940
Erich Hoepner
1886
1944
4th Panzer Army

19 July 1940
Eugen von Schobert
1883
1941
11th Army (Wehrmacht)

19 July 1940
Adolf Strauß
1879
1973
9th Army (Wehrmacht)

1 Jan 1942
Georg-Hans Reinhardt
1887
1963
3rd Panzer Army - Army Group Center

1 Jan 1942
Rudolf Schmidt
1886
1957
2nd Panzer Army

1 Apr 1942
Richard Ruoff
1883
1967
4th Panzer Army - 17th Army (Wehrmacht) - Panzer Group Ruoff - 17th Army (Wehrmacht)

1 June 1942
Eduard Dietl
1890
1944
Army Lapland - 20th Mountain Army

5 July 1942
Georg Lindemann
1884
1963
18th Army (Wehrmacht) - Army Group North

4 Dec 1942
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim
1889
1962
5th Panzer Army - Army Group Africa

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Thomas Ludwig Werner Freiherr von Fritsch ( 4 August 1880 - 22 September 1939 ) was a member of the German High Command . He was commander-in-chief of the German Army from 1933 until February 1938 , when he was forced to resign after being falsely accused of being homosexual .
The Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ) was the High Command ( lit . Upper Command ) of the German Army during the Era of Nazi Germany . It was founded in 1935 as a part of Adolf Hitler 's re-militarisation of Germany . From 1938 OKH was , together with OKL ( Oberkommando der Luftwaffe , High Command of the Air Force ) and OKM ( Oberkommando der Marine , High Command of the Navy ) , formally subordinated to the OKW ( Oberkommando der Wehrmacht , High Command of the Armed Forces ) , with the exception of the Waffen-SS . During the war , OKH had the responsibility of strategic planning of Armies and Army Groups , while the General Staff of the OKH managed operational matters . Each German Army also had an Armeeoberkommando , Army Command , or AOK . Until the German defeat at Moscow in December 1941 , OKH and its staff was de facto the most important unit within the German war planning . OKW then took over this function for theatres other than the German-Soviet front . OKH commander held the title Oberbefehlshaber des Heeres ( Supreme Commander of the Army ) . Following the Battle of Moscow , after OKH commander Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch was excused , Hitler appointed himself as Commander-in-Chief of the Army .
Ludwig August Theodor Beck ( 29 June 1880 - 20 July 1944 ) was a German general and Chief of the German General Staff during the early years of the Nazi regime in Germany before World War II . Ludwig Beck never became a member of the Nazi Party , though in the early 1930s he supported Adolf Hitler 's forceful denunciation of the Versailles Treaty and his belief in the need for Germany to rearm . Beck had grave misgivings regarding the Nazi demand that all German officers swear an oath of fealty to the person of Hitler in 1934 , though he believed that Germany needed strong government and that Hitler could successfully provide this so long as the Führer was influenced by traditional elements within the military rather than by the SA and SS . In serving as Chief of Staff of the German Army between 1935 and 1938 , Beck became increasingly disillusioned , standing in opposition to the increasing totalitarianism of the Nazi regime and to Hitler 's aggressive foreign policy . Due to public foreign-policy disagreements with Hitler , Beck resigned as Chief of Staff in August 1938 . From this point Beck came to believe that Hitler could not be influenced for good , and that both Hitler and the Nazi party needed to be removed from government . He became a major leader within the conspiracy against Hitler , and would have served as head of state - with the title of either President or regent ( Reichsverweser ) , depending on the source - had the 20 July plot succeeded . However , when the plot failed , Beck was arrested . He reportedly made an unsuccessful attempt at suicide , and was then shot dead .
The German General Staff , originally the Prussian General Staff and officially Great General Staff ( German : Großer Generalstab ) , was a full-time body at the head of the Prussian Army and later , the German Army , responsible for the continuous study of all aspects of war , and for drawing up and reviewing plans for mobilization or campaign . It existed unofficially from 1806 , and was formally established by law in 1814 , the first general staff in existence . It was distinguished by the formal selection of its officers by intelligence and proven merit rather than patronage or wealth , and by the exhaustive and rigorously structured training which its staff officers undertook . Its rise and development gave the German armed forces a decisive strategic advantage over their adversaries for nearly a century and a half . The Prussian General Staff also enjoyed greater freedom from political control than its contemporaries , and this autonomy was enshrined in law on the unification of Germany and the establishment of the German Empire in 1871 . It came to be regarded as the home of German militarism in the aftermath of World War I , and the victors attempted to suppress the institution . It nevertheless survived to play its accustomed part in the German re-armament and World War II . In a broader sense , the Prussian General Staff corps consisted of those officers qualified to perform staff duties , and formed a unique military fraternity . Their exhaustive training was designed not only to weed out the less motivated or less able candidates , but also to produce a body of professional military experts with common methods and outlook . General Staff-qualified officers alternated between line and staff duties but remained lifelong members of this special organization . Until the end of the German Empire , social and political convention often placed members of noble or royal households in command of its armies or corps but the actual responsibility for the planning and conduct of operations lay with the formation 's staff officers . For other European armies which lacked this professionally trained staff corps , the same conventions were often a recipe for disaster .
Wilhelm Adam ( 15 September 1877 - 8 April 1949 ) was a German general who served in the Bavarian Army , the Reichswehr and the Wehrmacht . Adam was born in Ansbach , joining the German Army in 1897 , and serving in Bavarian telegraph and Communication units before being detached to the Bavarian War Academy in 1907 . During World War I , Adam fought as a company leader of a Bavarian pioneer unit , but only for a short period . Towards the end of 1914 , Adam became a General Staff Officer on the Staff of the Army High command . But right at the end of the war he was back to being a Bavarian engineer unit leader . With the end of the war , Adam served in various posts within the Reichswehr , from posts such as a liaison officer to the Bavarian Military Ministry and being an infantry battalion commander , in the 20th Infantry Regiment . By Hitler 's rise to power in 1933 , Adam was Chief of the Troop Office and soon was commanding a division and was also at the same time commanding Military District VII . Adam retired on 31 December 1938 , but he was recalled for service from 26 August 1939 . After several years of being at the disposal of the army he retired in 1943 and died in 1949 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen .
Johannes Albrecht Blaskowitz ( 10 July 1883 - 5 February 1948 ) was a German general during World War II and recipient of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords . Blaskowitz led the 8th Army during the Invasion of Poland and was the Commander in Chief of Occupied Poland from 1939 to 1940 ; he had written several memoranda for the German High Command protesting the SS atrocities and handed out death sentences to members of the SS for crimes against the civilian population . He was dismissed , but then re-appointed . He commanded Army Group G during the Allied invasion of Southern France and Operation Nordwind , the last major German offensive of World War II on the Western Front . After the war , he was charged with war crimes in the High Command Trial at Nuremberg and committed suicide on 5 February 1948 . He was posthumously acquitted on all counts .
The 8th Army ( German : 8 . Armee Oberkommando ) was a World War I and possibly World War II field army . It existed twice during the war , in the invasion of Poland in 1939 , and on the Eastern Front from 1943 onwards . The 8th Army was activated on 1 August 1939 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command . In 1939 it was part of Gerd von Rundstedt 's Army Group South for the Invasion of Poland . It consisted of two corps , X. Armeekorps and XIII . Armeekorps , and was responsible for the northern part of Army Group South 's front . The army saw heavy combat during the Battle of the Bzura . After the conclusion of the Polish campaign , it was reorganized into the 2nd Army which took part in the Battle of France in 1940 . In 1943 it was reformed after the Battle of Kursk from Army Detachment Kempf . After fierce defensive battles throughout 1943 , 1944 and the first months of 1945 , it finally surrendered in Austria in 1945 . It fought in Hungary , Romania , and Austria in 1944 and 1945 .
The 9th Army ( German : 9 . Armee ) was a World War II field army . It was activated on 15 May 1940 with General Johannes Blaskowitz in command .
The 1st Army ( German : 1 . Armee ) was a World War II field army .
The German Army Group G ( Heeresgruppe G ) fought on the Western Front of World War II and was a component of OB West .
Army Group H ( Heeresgruppe H ) was a German army group in the Netherlands and in Nordrhein-Westfalen during World War II . Army Group H ( for Holland ) was activated on 11 November 1944 in the Netherlands . It contained the 1st Parachute Army and the 15th Army ( in January 1945 replaced by the 25th Army ) . It garrisoned the Netherlands with twelve divisions . In March 1945 the army group became Heeresgruppe Nordwest under Ernst Busch the Oberbefehlshaber Nordwest ( OB Nordwest , the Northwest High Command ) . After being pushed from the Rhine by Operation Varsity , on 4 May 1945 OB Nordwest capitulated on the Lüneburger Heide to Field Marshal Montgomery .
The 25th Army ( German : 25 . Armee ) was a World War II field army of the German Army .
Friedrich Karl Albert Dollmann ( 2 February 1882 - 28 June 1944 ) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 7th Army during the Invasion of France and the early phases of the Allied invasion of Normandy until his death in June 1944 .
The 7th Army ( German : 7 . Armee Oberkommando ) was a World War II field army of the German land forces .
Nikolaus von Falkenhorst ( 17 January 1885 - 18 June 1968 ) was a German general and a war criminal during World War II . He planned and commanded the German invasion of Denmark and Norway in 1940 , and was commander of German troops during the occupation of Norway from 1940 to 1944 . After the war , Falkenhorst was tried by a joint British-Norwegian military tribunal for war crimes . He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1946 . The sentence was later commuted to twenty years ' imprisonment . Falkenhorst was released in 1953 and died in 1968 .
Friedrich Fromm ( 8 October 1888 - 12 March 1945 ) was a German army officer . In World War II , Fromm was Commander in Chief of the Reserve Army ( Ersatzheer ) , in charge of training and personnel replacement for combat divisions of the German Army , a position he occupied for most of the war . A recipient of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross , he was executed for failing to act against the plot of 20 July 1944 to assassinate Hitler .
The Replacement Army ( German : Ersatzheer ) was part of the Imperial German Army during World War I and part of the Wehrmacht during World War II . It was based within Germany proper and included command and administrative units as well as training and guard troops . Its primary role was to provide replacements for the combat divisions of the regular army .
Heinz Wilhelm Guderian ( German : [ ɡuˈdeːʁi̯an ] ; 17 June 1888 - 14 May 1954 ) was a German general during World War II who , after the war , became a successful memoirist . An early pioneer and advocate of the blitzkrieg approach , he played a central role in the development of the panzer division concept . In 1936 , he became the Inspector of Motorized Troops . At the beginning of the Second World War , Guderian led an armoured corps in the Invasion of Poland . During the Invasion of France , he commanded the armoured units that attacked through the Ardennes forest and overwhelmed the Allied defenses at the Battle of Sedan . He led the 2nd Panzer Army during Operation Barbarossa , the invasion of the Soviet Union . The campaign ended in failure after the German offensive Operation Typhoon failed to capture Moscow , after which Guderian was dismissed . In early 1943 , Adolf Hitler appointed Guderian to the newly created position of Inspector General of Armoured Troops . In this role , he had broad responsibility to rebuild and train new panzer forces but saw limited success due to Germany 's worsening war economy . Guderian was appointed Acting Chief of the General Staff of the Army High Command , immediately following the 20 July Plot to assassinate Hitler . Guderian was placed in charge of the Court of Honour by Hitler , which in the aftermath of the plot was used to dismiss people from the military so they could be tried in the People 's Court and executed . He was Hitler 's personal advisor on the Eastern Front and became closely associated with the Nazi regime .
The 2nd Panzer Army ( German : 2 . Panzerarmee ) was a German armoured formation during World War II , formed from the 2nd Panzer Group on October 5 , 1941 .
The 2nd Panzer Army ( German : 2 . Panzerarmee ) was a German armoured formation during World War II , formed from the 2nd Panzer Group on October 5 , 1941 .
Curt Haase ( 15 December 1881 - 9 February 1943 ) was a German general ( Generaloberst ) in the Wehrmacht during World War II . He commanded the III Corps during the Invasion of Poland and France . He later commanded the 15th Army in German-occupied France from January 1941 to November 1942 .
The 15th Army ( German : 15 . Armee ) was a World War II field army .
Franz Halder ( 30 June 1884 - 2 April 1972 ) was a German general and the chief of staff of the Army High Command ( OKH ) in Nazi Germany from 1938 until September 1942 who , after World War II , had a decisive role in the development of the myth of the clean Wehrmacht . He directed the planning and implementation of Operation Barbarossa , the 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union . Halder became instrumental in the radicalisation of warfare on the Eastern Front . He had his staff draft both the Commissar Order ( issued on 6 June 1941 ) and the Barbarossa Decree ( signed on 13 May 1941 ) that allowed German soldiers to execute Soviet citizens for any reason without fear of later prosecution , leading to numerous war crimes and atrocities during the campaign . Halder joined the Imperial German Army in a unit under the command of his father and served in World War I ( 1914-1918 ) . In 1937 he met and became a loyal supporter of Adolf Hitler . Halder participated in the strategic planning for the 1939 German invasion of Poland . The plans authorised the SS to carry out security tasks on behalf of the army that included the imprisonment or execution of Poles . At the end of 1939 , Halder oversaw the development of the invasion plans of France , the Low Countries , and the Balkans . In August 1940 he began planning for the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union , Operation Barbarossa , which began on 22 June 1941 . That summer Halder engaged in a long-running and divisive dispute with Hitler over strategy . The Barbarossa Decree and Commissar Order became fundamental during the Battle for Moscow in the winter of 1941-1942 .
Hermann Hoth ( 12 April 1885 - 25 January 1971 ) was a German army commander and war criminal during World War II . He fought in the Battle of France and as a panzer commander on the Eastern Front . Hoth commanded the 3rd Panzer Group during Operation Barbarossa in 1941 , and the 4th Panzer Army during the Wehrmacht 's 1942 summer offensive . Following the encirclement of the 6th Army in the Battle of Stalingrad in November 1942 , Hoth 's panzer army unsuccessfully attempted to relieve it during Operation Winter Storm . After Stalingrad , Hoth was involved in the Third Battle of Kharkov , the Battle of Kursk in the summer of 1943 and the Battle of Kiev . Hoth implemented the criminal Commissar Order during the invasion of the Soviet Union . After the war , Hoth was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity in the High Command trial and sentenced to 15 years . He was released on parole in 1954 .
The German Seventeenth Army ( German : 17 . Armee ) was a World War II field army .
The 4th Panzer Army ( German : 4 . Panzerarmee ) ( operating as Panzer Group 4 ( German : 4 . Panzergruppe ) from its formation on 15 February 1941 to 1 January 1942 , when it was redesignated as a full army ) was a German panzer formation during World War II . As a key armoured component of the Wehrmacht , the army took part in the crucial battles of the German-Soviet war of 1941-45 , including Operation Barbarossa , the Battle of Moscow , the Battle of Stalingrad , the Battle of Kursk , and the 1943 Battle of Kiev .
Erich Hoepner ( 14 September 1886 - 8 August 1944 ) was a German general during World War II . An early proponent of mechanisation and armoured warfare , he was a Wehrmacht army corps commander at the beginning of the war , leading his troops during the invasion of Poland and the Battle of France . Hoepner commanded the 4th Panzer Group on the Eastern Front during Operation Barbarossa , the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 . Units under his command closely cooperated with the Einsatzgruppen and implemented the Commissar Order that directed Wehrmacht troops to summarily execute Red Army political commissars immediately upon capture . Hoepner 's Panzer group , along with the 3rd Panzer Group , spearheaded the advance on Moscow in Operation Typhoon , the failed attempt to seize the Soviet capital . Dismissed from the Wehrmacht after the failure of the 1941 campaign , Hoepner restored his pension rights through a lawsuit . He was implicated in the failed 20 July plot against Adolf Hitler and executed in 1944 .
Eugen Siegfried Erich Ritter von Schobert ( 13 March 1883 - 12 September 1941 ) was a German general during World War II . He commanded the 11th Army during Operation Barbarossa , the invasion of the Soviet Union . Schobert died when his observation plane crashed in a Soviet minefield .
The 11th Army ( German : 11 . Armee ) was a World War II field army .
Adolf Strauß ( 6 September 1879 - 20 March 1973 ) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II . As with all German armies on the Eastern Front , Strauß 's 9th Army implemented the criminal Commissar Order . As commander of the II Army Corps , Strauß participated in the German Invasion of Poland . On 30 May 1940 , he was appointed commander of the 9th Army in France . Strauß participated in Operation Barbarossa with Army Group Centre . In January 1942 he was replaced in command of the 9th Army by Walter Model following the initial breakthrough of the Soviet forces during commencement of the Rzhev Battles . He died on 20 March 1973 in Lübeck . Mentioned by Sven Hassel in Wheels of Terror
Georg-Hans Reinhardt ( 1 March 1887 - 23 November 1963 ) was a German general and war criminal during World War II . He commanded the 3rd Panzer Army from 1941 to 1944 , and Army Group Centre in 1944 and 1945 , reaching the rank of colonel general ( Generaloberst ) . Following the war , Reinhardt was tried in the High Command Trial , as part of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials . He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity and sentenced to 15 years . He was released in 1952 .
The 3rd Panzer Army ( German : 3 . Panzerarmee ) was a German armoured formation during World War II , formed from the 3rd Panzer Group on 1 January 1942 .
Army Group Centre ( German : Heeresgruppe Mitte ) was the name of two distinct strategic German Army Groups that fought on the Eastern Front in World War II . The first Army Group Centre was created on 22 June 1941 , as one of three German Army formations assigned to the invasion of the Soviet Union ( Operation Barbarossa ) . On 25 January 1945 , after it was encircled in the Königsberg pocket , Army Group Centre was renamed Army Group North ( Heeresgruppe Nord ) , and Army Group A ( Heeresgruppe A ) became Army Group Centre . The latter formation retained its name until the end of the war in Europe .
Rudolf Schmidt ( 12 May 1886 - 7 April 1957 ) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded the 2nd Panzer Army on the Eastern Front . He was a recipient of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves .
Richard Ruoff ( 18 August 1883 - 30 March 1967 ) was a general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II . He commanded the 4th Panzer Army and the 17th Army on the Eastern Front .
Eduard Dietl ( 21 July 1890 - 23 June 1944 ) was a German general during World War II who commanded the 20th Mountain Army . He was a recipient of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords of Nazi Germany .
The German Lapland Army ( AOK Lappland ) was one of the two army echelon headquarters controlling German troops in the far north of Norway and Finland during World War II . It was established in January 1942 , and renamed the 20th Mountain Army ( 20 . Gebirgsarmee ) in June 1942 . On 18 December 1944 , the 20th Mountain Army absorbed the German 21st Army .
Georg Lindemann ( 8 March 1884 - 25 September 1963 ) was a German general during World War II . He commanded the 18th Army during the Soviet Kingisepp-Gdov Offensive .
The 18th Army ( German : 18 . Armee ) was a World War II field army in the German Wehrmacht . Formed in November 1939 in Military Region ( Wehrkreis ) VI , the 18th Army was part of the offensive into the Netherlands ( Battle of the Netherlands ) and Belgium ( Battle of Belgium ) during Fall Gelb and later moved into France in 1940 . The 18th Army was then moved East and participated in Operation Barbarossa in 1941 . The Army was a part of the Army Group North until early 1945 , when it was subordinated to Army Group Kurland . In October 1944 , the army was encircled by the Red Army offensives and spent the remainder of the war in the Courland Pocket .
Army Group North ( German : Heeresgruppe Nord ) was a German strategic echelon formation , commanding a grouping of field armies during World War II . The German Army Group was subordinated to the Oberkommando des Heeres ( OKH ) , the German army high command , and coordinated the operations of attached separate army corps , reserve formations , rear services and logistics , including the Army Group North Rear Area .
Hans-Jürgen von Arnim ( German : [ ˈaɐ̯niːm ] ; 4 April 1889 - 1 September 1962 ) was a German general in the Wehrmacht of Nazi Germany during World War II who commanded several armies . He was a recipient of the Knight 's Cross of the Iron Cross .
The 5th Panzer Army ( German : 5 . Panzerarmee ) was a German armoured formation that operated on the Western Front and North Africa . The remnants of the army surrendered in the Ruhr pocket in 1945 .
As the number of German troops committed to the North African Campaign of World War II grew from the initial commitment of a small corps the Germans developed a more elaborate command structure and placed the enlarged Afrika Korps , with Italian units under this new German command and a succession of commands were created to manage Axis forces in Africa :