List of German field marshals

Prussian Field Marshal's baton

The following list of German Field Marshals denotes those who have held the German rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony

Arnim-Boitzenburg, the first 'German' Field Marshal

1. 21 June 1631 - Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1583–1641)

2. 24 November 1632 - Duke Franz Albrecht of Saxony-Lauenburg (1598–1642)

3. 19 October 1638 - Rudolf Graf von Marzin (also Marazin)

4. 1 January 1666 - Ernst Albrecht Freiherr von Eberstein (1605–1676)

5. 28 August 1681 - Joachim Rüdiger Freiherr von der Goltz (1620–1688)

6. 8 September 1688 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (1632–1706)

7. 9 April 1691 - Hans Adam von Schöning (1641–1696)

8. 10 May 1693 - Jeremias von Chauvet († 1696)

9. 30 September 1697 - Prince Heinrich VI of Reuss-Plauen (1649–1697)

10. 27 August 1699 - Adam Heinrich Graf von Steinau († 1712)

11. 3 December 1706 - Georg Benedikt Freiherr von Ogilvy (1651–1710)

12. 22 February 1712 - Jakob Heinrich Graf von Flemming

13. 17 April 1730 - Christoph August Graf von Wackerbarth (1662–1734)

14. 26 November 1735 - Johann Adolf II, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels (1685–1746)

15. 11 January 1749 - Friedrich August Graf Rutowski (1702–1764)

16. 27 July 1763 - Johann Georg, Chevalier de Saxe (1704–1774)

17. 6 January 1775 - Prince Friedrich of Anhalt-Dessau (1705–1781)

18. 11 July 1871 - Crown Prince Albert (later King) of Saxony (1828–1902)

19. 15 June 1888 - Crown Prince Georg (later King) of Saxony (1832–1904)

Electorate of Brandenburg and Kingdom of Prussia

John George II of Anhalt-Dessau

Yorck von Wartenburg

Marshal Blücher in 1813

• 20 June 1657 - Otto Christoph von Sparr (1599–1668)
• 24 January 1670 - John George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1627–1693)
• 18 February 1670 - Georg Reichsfreiherr von Derfflinger (1606–1695)
• 28 June 1675 - Prince Friedrich II of Hessen-Homburg (1633–1708) (1811: Prince of the Drama from Heinrich von Kleist)
• 1 May 1688 - Hans Adam von Schöning (1641–1696)
• 12 March 1691 – Alexander Freiherr von Spaen (1619–1692)
• 1 May 1691 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming (1632–1706)
• 1698 - Johann Albrecht Reichsgraf von Barfus (1634–1704)
• 23 March 1706 - Alexander Hermann Graf von Wartensleben (1650–1734)
• 1712 - Leopold I of Anhalt-Dessau 1676-1747)
• 1713 - Carl Philipp Reichsgraf von Wylich und Lottum (1650–1719)
• 1713 - Alexander Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1661–1728)
• 1728 - Dubislaw Gneomar von Natzmer (1654–1739)
• 1733 - Albrecht Konrad Graf Finck von Finckenstein (1660–1735)
• 1737 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow (1678–1739)
• 1737 – Adrian Bernhard von Borcke (1668–1741),
• 1739 - Erhard Ernst von Röder (1665–1743)
• 1740 - Count Hans Heinrich Graf von Katte (1681–1741)
• 1740 - Count Kurt Christoph von Schwerin (1684–1757)
• 1741 - Caspar Otto von Glasenapp (1664–1747)
• 1741 - Samuel Reichsgraf von Schmettau (1684–1751)
• 16 May 1742 – Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (1690–1747); father of Empress Catherine II of Russia.
• 17 May 1742 – Leopold II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1700–1751)
• 15 January 1745 – Friedrich Wilhelm von Dossow (1669–1758)
• 19 March 1745 - Wilhelm Dietrich von Buddenbrock (1672–1757)
• 24 May 1747 - Henning Alexander von Kleist (1676–1749)
• 1747 - Christoph Wilhelm von Kalckstein (1682–1759)
• 18 September 1747 - James Francis Edward Keith (1696–1758)
• 1751 - Friedrich Leopold Graf von Gessler (1688–1762)
• 1751 - Johann von Lehwaldt (1685–1768)
• 1757 - Prince Moritz of Anhalt-Dessau (1712–1760)
• November 1758 - Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1721–1792)
• 1787 - Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1735–1806)
• 1793 - Wichard Joachim Heinrich von Möllendorf (1724–1816)
• 20 May 1798 Alexander von Knobelsdorff (1723–1799)
• 1805 - Wilhelm Magnus von Brünnecke (1727–1817)
• 21 July 1807 Wilhelm René de l'Homme de Courbière (1733–1811)
• 1807 Friedrich Adolf Graf von Kalckreuth (1737–1818)
• 19 October 1813 - Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher (1742–1819)
• 1821 - Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf, (1763–1823)
• 1821 - Ludwig Graf Yorck von Wartenburg (1759–1830)
• 1825 - August Graf Neidhardt von Gneisenau (1760–1831)
• 1839 - Hans Ernst Karl Graf von Zieten (1770–1848)
• 5 October 1847 Karl Freiherr von Müffling (1775–1851)
• 7 October 1847 - Hermann von Boyen (1771–1848)
• 9 October 1847 - Karl Friedrich von dem Knesebeck (1768–1848)
• 14 March 1854 - Friedrich Karl Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (1784–1859)
• 5 August 1856 - Friedrich Graf von Wrangel (1784–1877)
• 28 October 1870 - Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia (1828–1885)
• 28 October 1870 - Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia (1831–1888)

also Imperial Germany:

• 1913 - HRH King Constantine I of Greece (1868–1923)
• 27 January 1916 - HIM Sultan Mehmed V of Turkey (1844–1918)
• 6 September 1918 - HIM Sultan Mehmed VI of Turkey (1861–1926)

Imperial Germany

Helmuth Graf von Moltke

Kaiser Wilhelm II and Field Marshal August von Mackensen

• 8 April 1871 - Karl Eberhard Herwarth von Bittenfeld (1796–1884)
• 8 April 1871 - Karl Friedrich von Steinmetz (1796–1877)
• 16 June 1871 - Helmuth Graf von Moltke (1800–1891)
• 11 July 1871 - Crown Prince Albert (later King) of Saxony
• 1 January 1873 - Albrecht Graf von Roon (1803–1879)
• 1873 - Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel (1809–1885)
• 1888 - Edward, Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII of the United Kingdom)
• 15 March 1888 - Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal (1810–1900)
• 15 March 1888 - Crown Prince Georg of Saxony
• 19 June 1888 - Prince Albrecht of Prussia
• 19 June 1888 - Archduke Albrecht of Austria
• 27 February 1895 - Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary (1830–1916)
• 6 May 1900 - Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904)
• 1 January 1905 - Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler (1836–1919)
• 1 January 1905 - Wilhelm von Hahnke (1833–1912)
• 1 January 1905 - Walter Freiherr von Loë (1828–1908)
• 9 September 1906 - Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught (1850–1942)
• 20 April 1909 - King Carol I of Romania
• 1 January 1911 - Max von Bock und Pollach (1842–1915)
• 1 January 1911 - Alfred Graf von Schlieffen (1833–1913)
• 1 January 1911 - Colmar Freiherr von der Goltz (1843–1916)
• 16 May 1911 - King George V of the United Kingdom
• 11 September 1912 - King Frederick Augustus III of Saxony
• 8 August 1913 - King Constantine I of Greece
• 2 November 1914 - Paul von Hindenburg (1847–1934)
• 27 January 1915 - Karl von Bülow (1846–1921)
• 22 June 1915 - Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen
• 22 June 1915 - August von Mackensen (1849–1945)
• 26 June 1915 - King Ludwig III of Bavaria (1845–1921)
• 1916 - Franz Graf Conrad von Hötzendorf (1852–1925)
• 18 January 1916 - Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria
• 1 February 1916 - Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire
• 23 July 1916 - William II of Württemberg (1848–1921)
• 1 August 1916 - Crown Prince Rupprecht of Bavaria (1869–1955)
• 1 August 1916 - Prince Leopold of Bavaria (1846–1930)
• 1 August 1916 - Duke Albrecht of Württemberg (1865–1939)
• 12 February 1917 - Emperor Karl of Austria (1887–1922)
• 18 December 1917 - Hermann von Eichhorn (1848–1918)
• 31 December 1917 - Remus von Woyrsch (1847–1920)

Nazi Germany

Field Marshals von Rundstedt and von Weichs, 1940

Field Marshals von Leeb and von Küchler, 1941

Field Marshal Rommel, 1942

• 20 April 1936 - Werner von Blomberg (1878–1946)
• 4 February 1938 - Hermann Göring (1893–1946)
• 19 July 1940 - Fedor von Bock (1880–1945)
• 19 July 1940 - Walther von Brauchitsch (1881–1948)
• 19 July 1940 - Albert Kesselring (1885–1960)
• 19 July 1940 - Wilhelm Keitel (1882–1946)
• 19 July 1940 - Günther von Kluge (1882–1944)
• 19 July 1940 - Wilhelm Ritter von Leeb (1876–1956)
• 19 July 1940 - Wilhelm List (1880–1971)
• 19 July 1940 - Erhard Milch (1892–1972)
• 19 July 1940 - Walther von Reichenau (1884–1942)
• 19 July 1940 - Gerd von Rundstedt (1875–1953)
• 19 July 1940 - Hugo Sperrle (1885–1953)
• 19 July 1940 - Erwin von Witzleben (1881–1944)
• 31 October 1940 - Eduard Freiherr von Böhm-Ermolli (1856–1941)
• 22 June 1942 - Erwin Rommel (1891–1944)
• 30 June 1942 - Georg von Küchler (1881–1968)
• 1 July 1942 - Erich von Manstein (1887–1973)
• 31 January 1943 - Friedrich Paulus (1890–1957)
• 1 February 1943 - Ernst Busch (1885–1945)
• 1 February 1943 - Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881–1954)
• 1 February 1943 - Maximilian Reichsfreiherr von Weichs (1881–1954)
• 16 February 1943 - Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895–1945)
• 1 March 1944 - Walter Model (1891–1945)
• 5 April 1945 - Ferdinand Schörner (1892–1973)
• 25 April 1945 - Robert Ritter von Greim (1892–1945)

See also

• List of Field Marshals of the Holy Roman Empire
• List of Austrian Field Marshals