He also did not much like his commanding officer, Generalleutnant Otto von Lossow, " a sorry figure of a man ".

In reality, the German commanders in Sicily were contemptuous of their allies, and German units took their orders from the German liaison officer attached to Italian 6th Army HQ, Generalleutnant Frido von Senger und Etterlin who was subordinate to Albert Kesselring, the German Commander-in-Chief Army Command South ( OB Süd ).

* Generalleutnant Max von Hartlieb-Walsporn ( 8 October 1939 – 29 May 1940 )

The Convention of Tauroggen was a truce signed 30 December 1812 at Tauroggen ( now Tauragė, Lithuania ), between Generalleutnant Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg on behalf of his Prussian troops ( who had been compelled to augment the Grande Armée during the invasion of Russia ), and by General Hans Karl von Diebitsch of the Russian Army.

Moltke was born in Parchim, Mecklenburg-Schwerin, son of the Danish Generalleutnant Friedrich Philipp Victor von Moltke ( 1768 – 1845 ).

Generalleutnant Otto Liman von Sanders ( February 17, 1855 – August 22, 1929 ) was a German general who served as adviser and military commander for the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

Major General ( Generalleutnant ) Frido von Senger und Etterlin — commanding German XIV Panzer Corps ( XIV Panzerkorps )— later wrote that he had taken to travelling in a little Volkswagen "( displaying ) no general's insignia of rank — no peaked cap, no gold or red flags ...".

From June 1942, Kaminski ’ s militia took part in the major action codenamed Operation Vogelsang, as a part of Generalleutnant Werner Freiherr von und zu Gilsa's Kampfgruppe ( taskforce ) Gilsa II.

He was promoted to Major-General ( Generalleutnant ) in 1932 by Kurt von Schleicher, who regarded him as a promising young officer.

From June 1942, Kaminski ’ s militia took part in the major anti-partisan action, code-named Operation Vogelsang, as a part of Generalleutnant Werner Freiherr von und zu Gilsa's kampfgruppe ( taskforce ) Gilsa II.

* Generalleutnant Konrad von Cochenhausen ( March 1938 – September 1940 )

* Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm von Loeper ( October 1940 – April 1942 )

* Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, 1 February 1943

* Generalleutnant Friedrich-Wilhelm von Rothkirch und Panthen ( 11 October 1940 – 25 June 1941

* Generalleutnant Hellmut von der Chevallerie ( 1 November 1942 – 1 December 1942 )

* Generalleutnant Hellmut von der Chevallerie ( 15 May 1943 – 1 September 1943 )

* Generalleutnant Hans Graf von Sponeck ( 10 Nov 1938-10 Oct 1941 )

* Generalleutnant Dietrich von Müller, 14 August 1944

* Generalleutnant Dietrich von Müller, 2 February 1945

* Generalleutnant Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck ( 17 February 1942-31 May 1942 ) ( Vacation )

* Generalleutnant Hans-Karl Freiherr von Esebeck ( 1 July 1942-10 August 1942 ) ( Wounded )

* Generalleutnant Heinrich Freiherr von Lüttwitz ( 1 February 1944-4 May 1944 ) ( Vacation )

With 15 Panzer IV tanks, mainly from 6th Company 2nd Battalion Panzer Lehr Regiment 130, and a further 10 collected from a workshop south of Route Nationale 175, Ritgen rendezvoused with the Panzer Lehr Division's commanding officer, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, at Villy-Bocage.

At that time, the German Imperial Navy had only four ranks for admirals: Rear Admiral, ( Konteradmiral, equal to a Generalmajor, with no pips on the shoulder board ); Vice Admiral ( Vizeadmiral, equal to a Generalleutnant, with one pip ); Admiral ( equal to a General der Infanterie, with two pips ), and Grand Admiral ( equal to a Field Marshal ).

On July 8, 1938, barely two years after the death of Germany's main strategic bombing advocate, Generalleutnant Walter Wever, the Luftwaffe's commander-in-chief Hermann Göring, gave a speech saying, " I completely lack the bombers capable of round-trip flights to New York with a 4. 5-tonne bomb load.

* June 3 – Generalleutnant Walther Wever, the first chief-of-staff of the restored German Luftwaffe and the main proponent for the new force to have the aircraft to perform strategic bombing, dies along with his flight engineer when the Heinkel He 70 he is piloting crashes on takeoff at Dresden, Germany.

Streckenbach held this post to the end of the war, and in battles of 1944-1945 on Eastern Front serving with his crack Latvian unit enabled him to earn further advancement in rank to SS-Brigadeführer in July and finally to SS-Gruppenführer und Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS in November ' 44.

The defense of the city was under German Generalleutnant Hermann Ramcke with whom Middleton carried on a dialog during the siege.

Generalleutnant Karl-Wilhelm von Schlieben, commander of the 709th Infantry Division reported that the commander of the 922nd Grenadier Regiment, Oberstleutnant Franz Müller, who had been assigned to the 243rd Infantry Division on the west coast, had been transferred by Generalleutnant Heinz Hellmich with regimental troops of the 922nd Grenadier Regiment, the 3rd Battalion 922nd Grenadier Regiment, and one Battalion of the 920th Grenadier Regiment, and the engineer battalion of the 243rd Infantry Division to Montebourg by night march on June 6.

* Oberst ( future Generalleutnant ) Constantin Wilhelm Albert von Müller, awarded the 3rd Class with Crown and Swords for actions in Camerooon, 1905

Promoted to the rank of Colonel ( Oberst ) in 1925 and Lieutenant General ( Generalleutnant ) in 1931, Stülpnagel played a leading role in the Reichswehr in conjunction with Kurt von Schleicher and Freiherr von Bussche during the Weimar era.

This brought him, at 57, into the highest ranks of the German Army, reflected in his promotion to Lieutenant General ( Generalleutnant ).

The area and the V-weapons project were under the control of Generalleutnant ( General ) Dietrich Kraiss and his 352nd Static Infantry Division.

However, within the Waffen-SS, the rank of SS-Gruppenführer was equivalent to a Generalleutnant and a SS-Obergruppenführer came to be considered the equivalent of a General ; holders were titled in full SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Waffen-SS.

Recognized as a fine staff officer and planner, in August 1936 Halder was promoted to Generalleutnant ( rank of a division commander, hence equivalent to a US Army Major General ).

In 1927, he was promoted to Oberst, in 1930 he was promoted to Generalmajor ( Equivalent to a US Brigadier General ) and in 1932 he was promoted to Generalleutnant ( Major General ).

* Generalleutnant ( Major General )-1 October 1932

On 27 August 1937 as a Generalleutnant he was appointed Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Army.

* Generalleutnant – Lieutenant-General ( before 1956 equivalent to US Major General )

* Waffen-SS service: Generalleutnant der SS-Verfügungstruppe, General der Waffen-SS

The Battle of Ortona ( December 20 – 28, 1943 ) was a small, yet extremely fierce, battle fought between a battalion of German Fallschirmjäger ( paratroops ) from the German 1st Parachute Division under Generalleutnant Richard Heidrich, and assaulting Canadian forces from the 1st Canadian Infantry Division under Major General Chris Vokes.

Weidling replaced Lieutenant General ( Generalleutnant ) Helmuth Reymann, Colonel ( Oberst ) Ernst Kaether, and Hitler himself.

On 1 July 1935, he was promoted to Major General and Chief of Staff of the Third Army and in 1937 to Generalleutnant.

On June 23, 1944, a Ju 52 aircraft carrying Dietl, General der Infanterie Thomas-Emil von Wickede, General der Gebirgstruppe Karl Eglseer, Generalleutnant Franz Rossi and three other passengers crashed in the vicinity of the small village of Rettenegg, Styria ; there were no survivors.

* Generalleutnant á la suite Viktor Adolph Theophil von Podbielski ( 1844 – 1916 ), hussar general, Prussian Minister of Agriculture, Postmaster General, and President of the German Olympic Committee ; awarded 1st Class, Jan 27, 1902

To the direct descendants of the Jauchs belong furthermore the German painter and head of the Nazarene movement Johann Friedrich Overbeck ( 1789 – 1869 ), the Nobel Prize-winning novelist Henryk Sienkiewicz ( 1846 – 1916 ), Lieutenant Colonel Otto von Feldmann ( 1873 – 1945 ), as Feldmann Pasha chief of military operations department at the Ottoman General Headquarters in World War I, SS-Gruppenführer and Generalleutnant der Waffen-SS Karl Fischer von Treuenfeld ( 1885 – 1946 ), inter alia commander of the escalade of Prague's Ss.

On 31 January 1944, Baur was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer ( Major General ) and major general of the police ; and on February 24, 1945 became an SS-Gruppenführer ( Lieutenant General ) and Generalleutnant of the Police.