List of German field marshals



The following list of German field marshals denotes those who have held the German rank of Generalfeldmarschall.

Electorate and Kingdom of Saxony

 * 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

 * 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

 * 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

 * 20 April 1936 – Werner von Blomberg (1878–1946)
 * 4 February 1938 – Hermann Göring (1893–1946) Göring was later promoted to the even-higher rank of Reichsmarshal and was the only German to have held this rank.
 * 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)