General der Flieger

General der Flieger (General of the aviators) was a General of the branch rank of the Luftwaffe (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

The rank was also equivalent to the German three-star ranks:
 * Other services:
 * Admiral of the Kriegsmarine, equivalent to (US Vice admiral) and
 * SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS in the Waffen-SS.

A

 * Alexander Andrae (1888–1979)

B

 * Karl Barlen (1890–1956)
 * Hellmuth Bieneck (1887–1972)
 * Karl-Heinrich Bodenschatz (1890–1979)
 * Walter Boenicke (1895–1947)
 * Rudolf Bogatsch (1891–1970)
 * Alfred Bülowius (1892–1968)

C

 * Friedrich Christiansen (1879–1972)
 * Friedrich Cochenhausen (1879–1946)
 * Joachim Coeler (1891–1955)

D

 * Heinrich Danckelmann (1887–1947)
 * Paul Deichmann (1898–1981)
 * Egon Doerstling (1890–1965)
 * Eduard Dransfeld (1883–1964)
 * Karl Drum (1893–1968)

E

 * Karl Eberth (1877–1952)

F

 * Hellmuth Felmy (1885–1965)
 * Martin Fiebig (1891–1947)
 * Johannes Fink (1895–1981)
 * Veit Fischer (1890–1966)
 * Helmuth Förster (1889–1965)
 * Stefan Fröhlich (1889–1978)
 * Heribert Fütterer (1894–1963)

G

 * Hans Geisler (1891–1966)
 * Ulrich Grauert (1889–1941) later promoted to Generaloberst

H

 * Wilhelm Haehnelt (1875–1946)
 * Hans Halm (1879–1957)
 * Friedrich-Carl Hanesse (1892–1975)
 * Willi Harmjanz (1893–1983)
 * Otto Hoffmann von Waldau (1898–1943)

J

 * Hans Jeschonnek (1899–1943), then a Generaloberst (1942)

K

 * Josef Kammhuber (1896–1986)
 * Erich Karlewski (1874–1947)
 * Gustav Kastner-Kirdorf (1881–1945)
 * Leonhard Kaupisch (1878–1945)
 * Albert Kesselring (1885–1960) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
 * Ulrich Kessler (1894–1983)
 * Karl Kitzinger (1886–1962)
 * Waldemar Klepke (1882–1945)
 * Robert Knauss (1892–1955)
 * Karl Koller (1898–1951)
 * Werner Kreipe (1904–1967)

L

 * Otto Langemeyer (1883–1950)
 * Hermann von der Lieth-Thomsen (1867–1942)

M

 * Alfred Mahnke (1888–1979)
 * Wilhelm Mayer (1886–1950)
 * Rudolf Meister (1897–1958)
 * Erhard Milch (1892–1972) later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall
 * Max Mohr (1884–1966)
 * Walter Musshoff (1885–1971)

P

 * Erich Petersen (1889–1963)
 * Kurt Pflugbeil (1890–1955)
 * Maximilian Ritter von Pohl (1893–1951)
 * Richard Putzier (1890–1979)

Q

 * Erich Quade (1883–1959)

R

 * Georg Rieke (1894–1970)
 * Hans Ritter (1893–1991)

S

 * Hugo Schmidt (1885–1964)
 * Wilhelm Schubert (1879–1972)
 * Julius Schulz (1889–1975)
 * Karl Friedrich Schweickhard (1883–1968)
 * Hans-Georg von Seidel (1891–1955)
 * Hans Seidemann (1902–1967)
 * Hans Siburg (1893–1976)
 * Wilhelm Speidel (1895–1970)

V

 * Albert Vierling (1887–1969)

W

 * Bernhard Waber (1884–1945)
 * Walther Wecke (1885–1943)
 * Rudolf Wenninger (1890–1945)
 * Helmuth Wilberg (1880–1941)
 * Wilhelm Wimmer (1889–1973)
 * Bodo von Witzendorff (1876–1943)
 * Ludwig Wolff (1886–1950)

Z

 * Konrad Zander (1883–1947)