General of the Cavalry () was a general of the branch rank in the Imperial German Army, Reichswehr and Wehrmacht. It was the second-highest general officer rank below .
Artillery officers of equivalent rank were called General der Artillerie, and infantry officers of equivalent rank General der Infanterie. The Wehrmacht also created (tank troops), (mountain troops), (engineers), (aviators), (parachute troops), and (communications troops).
junior rank(Ranks Wehrmacht)(General of the branch)senior rank
List of officers who were General der Kavallerie
Friedrich von Bernhardi (1849–1930) Moritz von Bissing (1844–1917) Walter Braemer (1883–1955) Friedrich August Peter von Colomb (1775–1854) (1787–1859) Adolf von Deines (1845-1911) Karl von Einem (1853–1934) Rudolf Koch-Erpach (1886–1971) Franz Hermann Günther von Etzel (1862–1948) Max von Fabeck (1854–1916) Hans Feige (1880–1953) Kurt Feldt (1897–1970) (1857–1921) Otto von Garnier (1859–1947) (1857–1930) Gottlieb Graf von Haeseler (1836–1919) Erick-Oskar Hansen (1889–1967) Gustav Harteneck (1892–1984) Philipp von Hellingrath (1862–1939) Erich Hoepner (1886–1944) Ernst von Hoeppner (1860–1922) Leonhard von Hohenhausen (1788–1872) (1851–1917) Alfred von Kühne (1853-1945) Philipp Kleffel (1887–1964) Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist (1881-1954) Rudolf Koch-Erpach (1886–1971) Carl-Erik Koehler (1895–1958) Ernst August Köstring (1876–1953) Otto Kreß von Kressenstein (1850–1929) Karl Wilhelm Heinrich von Kleist (1836-1917) (1835-1904) Maximilian von Laffert (1855–1917) Georg Lindemann (1884–1963) August von Mackensen (1849–1945) Eberhard von Mackensen (1889–1969) Georg von der Marwitz (1856–1929) of the Pfuel family (1849–1936) (1716−1798) Wilhelm Malte II of Putbus (1833–1907) (1618–1672) Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (1865–1931) Alfred Bonaventura von Rauch (1824–1900) Friedrich von Rauch (1855–1935) Gustav Waldemar von Rauch (1819–1890) Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen (1855–1939) Edwin Graf von Rothkirch und Trach (1888–1980) Maximilian von Speidel (1856–1943) Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg (1886-1974) Wilhelm Karl, Duke of Urach Franz Heinrich Schnitzer (1814-1815) Alfred von Waldersee (1832–1904) (1826–1921) Maximilian von Weichs (1881–1954) (Later promoted to Generalfeldmarschall) Siegfried Westphal (1902–1982) Christian von Zweibrücken (1782–1859)
See also General (Germany) Comparative officer ranks of World War II
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