- Erwin Rommel
Erwin Rommel (Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, 1891-1944) | The famous "Desert Fox" commander of the North African campaign was born in Heidenheim, near Ulm on Nov. 15, 1891. While earning the respect of both sides in WWII, Rommel became disillusioned with Hitler. Although the Nazis accused him of being involved in the abortive July 20, 1944 bombing/assassination attempt against Hitler, his active role in the plot is doubtful.
- Hermann Göring
Hermann Wilhelm Göring was a German politician and military leader, a leading member of the Nazi Party, second in command of the Third Reich, and commander of the Luftwaffe. He was tried for war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945-1946 and sentenced to death by hanging; however, he escaped the hangman's noose around two hours before his scheduled execution by taking his life through the use of potassium cyanide.
- Paul von Hindenburg
Paul Ludwig Hans Anton von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, known universally as Paul von Hindenburg (October 2, 1847 - August 2, 1934) was a German field marshal and statesman. Hindenburg enjoyed a long if undistinguished career in the Prussian army, eventually retiring in 1913. He was recalled at the outbreak of the First World War, and first came to national attention, at the age of sixty-six, as the victor at Tannenberg in 1914.
- Wilhelm Keitel
Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel was a German field marshal (Generalfeldmarschall) and a senior military leader during World War II.
- Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (April 30, 1893 – October 16, 1946) was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg trials.
- Franz von Papen
"'"' (29 October 1879 - 2 May 1969) was a German nobleman, Catholic politician, General Staff officer, and diplomat, who served as Chancellor of Germany (Reichskanzler) in 1932. To many historians, Papen was also a key member in the small clique of right-wing politicians who "jobbed Adolf Hitler into power by backstairs intrigue". He has been called a "stirrup holder" ("Steigbügelhalter") for Hitler.
- Gerd von Rundstedt
Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rundstedt (December 12, 1875 - February 24, 1953) was a "Generalfeldmarschall" of the German Army during World War II. He held some of the highest field commands in all phases of the war.
- Hans Frank
Hans Michael Frank (May 23, 1900 - October 16, 1946) was a German lawyer who worked for the Nazi party during the 1920s and 1930s and a senior official in Nazi Germany. He was prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials for his role in perpetrating the Holocaust during his tenure as Governor-General of occupied Poland. He was found guilty of complicity in the murder of millions of Poles and Polish Jews, and executed on October 16 1946.
- Karl Dönitz
Karl Dönitz ; September 16, 1891-December 24, 1980) was a German naval leader, who was in command of the "Kriegsmarine" during World War II and was President of Germany for 23 days after Adolf Hitler's suicide. Dönitz was born in the suburb Grünau of Berlin. He entered the "Kaiserliche Marine" (Imperial German Navy) in 1911. During World War I, he served on surface ships before transferring to submarines.
- Franz Halder
Franz Ritter Halder (June 30 1884 - April 2 1972) was a German General and the head of the Army General Staff from 1938 until September 1942, when he was dismissed after frequent disagreements with Adolf Hitler.
- Erich Ludendorff
Erich Friedrich Wilhelm Ludendorff (sometimes given incorrectly as von Ludendorff) (April 9, 1865 - December 20, 1937, Tutzing, Bavaria, Germany) was a German Army officer, Quartermaster General during World War I, victor of Liege, and, with Paul von Hindenburg, one of the victors of the battle of Tannenberg. After the war, he briefly supported Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
- Sepp Dietrich
Josef "Sepp" Dietrich was a German Waffen-SS general, an SS-Oberstgruppenführer, and one of the closest men to Adolf Hitler. For his wartime services, he was one of only 27 men to be awarded the Knight's Cross with Oak leaves, Swords, and Diamonds.
- Erich Raeder
Erich Johann Albert Raeder was a naval leader in Germany before and during World War II. Raeder attained the highest possible naval rank – that of "Großadmiral" (Grand Admiral) – in 1939, becoming the first person to hold that rank since Alfred von Tirpitz. Raeder led the "Kriegsmarine" (German Navy) for the first half of World War II, but resigned in 1943 and was replaced by Karl Dönitz. He was sentenced to life in prison at the Nuremberg Trials, …
- Ernst Röhm
Ernst Julius Röhm, also known as Ernst Roehm in English (Munich November 28, 1887 – july 2, 1934) was a German military officer, and the commander and co-founder of the Nazi Sturmabteilung — the SA.
- Hans von Seeckt
Hans von Seeckt (22 April 1866 - 27 December 1936) was a German military officer. Born in Schleswig, he entered the army in 1885 and was seconded to the General Staff in 1899. During World War I von Seeckt served in various high-level staff positions on the Eastern Front, including Chief of Staff to August von Mackensen while the latter commanded the Eleventh Army.
- Walter Model
Otto Moritz Walter Model (24 January 1891 – 21 April 1945) was a German General and later Field Marshal during World War II. He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism. He has been called the Wehrmacht's best defensive tactician. Although he was a hard-driving, aggressive panzer commander early in the war, …
- Fedor von Bock
Fedor von Bock (December 3, 1880 - May 4, 1945) was an officer in the German military from 1898 to 1942, attaining the rank of "Generalfeldmarschall" during World War 2. He served as the commander of Army Group North during the Invasion of Poland in 1939, commander of Army Group B during the Invasion of France in 1940, and later as the commander of Army Group Center during the attack on the Soviet Union in 1941; his final command was that of Army Group South in 1942.
- Werner von Blomberg
Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg was a leading member of the German Army until January 1938. Born in Stargard, Pomerania, German Empire, Werner von Blomberg joined the army at a young age and attended Germany's Kriegsakademie in 1904. After graduating in 1907, Blomberg entered the General Staff in 1908. Serving with distinction on the Western Front during World War I, Blomberg was awarded the Pour le Mérite.
- Kurt von Schleicher
"'"' (7 April 1882 - 30 June 1934) was a German general and the last Chancellor of Germany during the era of the Weimar Republic
- Walther von Brauchitsch
Heinrich Alfred Hermann Walther von Brauchitsch (October 4, 1881 - October 18, 1948) was an aristocratic German General and the Commander-in-Chief of the Heer (German Army) in the early years of World War II.
- Klaus Naumann
Klaus Naumann is a German general, who was General Inspector of the German military from 1991 to 1996 and Chair of the Military Committee of the NATO from 1996 to 1999, succeeding the British general Richard Frederick Vincent, Baron Vincent of Coleshill. He testified against Slobodan Milošević in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He attended as a course member the Royal College of Defence Studies in London.
- Fritz Bayerlein
Fritz Bayerlein was a German panzer general during the Second World War. Fritz Bayerlein was born in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany. During the First World War, Bayerlein was drafted into the 9th Bavarian Infantry in 1917 and fought on the Western front. He was wounded and received an Iron Cross when he was in the 4th infantry regiment. After the war Bayerlein was briefly a member of a volunteer battalion but was transferred to Regiment 45 in May 1919.
- Ernst Udet
Ernst Udet was the second-highest scoring German flying ace of World War I. He was one of the youngest aces and was the highest scoring German ace to survive the war (at the age of only 22). His 62 victories were second only to Manfred von Richthofen, his commander in the Flying Circus.
- Johannes Blaskowitz
Johannes Blaskowitz (10 July 1883 - 5 February 1948) was a German general during World War II.
- Erich von Falkenhayn
Erich von Falkenhayn (11 November 1861 - 8 April 1922) was a German soldier and Chief of the General Staff during World War I.
- Wolfram von Richthofen
Generalfeldmarschall Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (10 October 1895 - 12 July 1945) was a German a general and field marshal of the Luftwaffe during World War II. Von Richthofen was a distant cousin of the German World War I flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, popularly known as the "Red Baron" (who had shot down 80 enemy aircraft before being killed in action in 1918), and the baron's younger brother Lothar von Richthofen, who himself shot down 40 enemy aircraft.
- Konstantin von Neurath
Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath (February 2, 1873 - August 14, 1956) was a German diplomat, Foreign Minister of Germany (1932-1938) and "Reichsprotektor" (Governor) of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (1939-1941. He remained titular Protector until 1943).
- Karl Wolff
Karl Friedrich Otto Wolff was a high-ranking member of the Nazi SS. He held the rank of "SS-Obergruppenführer" and General of the Waffen-SS. Wolff was born in Darmstadt, Germany, and joined the German Army during World War I, leaving as a Lieutenant. In 1931 Wolff joined the Nazi Party and in 1932 the SS, and worked his way up to being Chief of Staff, Main Office Personal Staff "Reichsführer SS" in 1933.
- Oswald Pohl
Oswald Pohl was a Nazi official and member of the SS (with a rank of "SS-Obergruppenführer"), involved in the mass murders of Jews in concentration camps, the "Endlösung".
- Ernst Busch
Ernst Busch (6 July, 1885 - 17 July, 1945) was a German field marshal during World War II.
- Ludwig Erhard
Ludwig Erhard (February 4, 1897-May 5, 1977) was a German politician (CDU) and Chancellor of West Germany from 1963 until 1966.
- Walther von Reichenau
Walter von Reichenau (October 8, 1884 - January 17, 1942) was a German "Generalfeldmarschall". Von Reichenau was born in Karlsruhe to a Prussian general in and joined the German Army in 1902. During World War I he served on the Western Front. He won the Iron Cross and by 1918 was a captain. Von Reichenau stayed in the army under the Weimar Republic as a General Staff officer. From 193] he was Chief of Staff to the Inspector of Signals at the Reichswehr Ministry, …
- Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg
Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Count von Stauffenberg (15 November 1907 - 21 July 1944) was a German army officer and one of the leading figures of the failed July 20 Plot of 1944 to kill Adolf Hitler and seize power in Germany.
- Werner von Fritsch
Werner Freiherr von Fritsch (4 August 1880 - 22 September 1939) was a prominent Wehrmacht officer, member of the German High Command, and the first German general to die in the Second World War.
- Robert Ritter von Greim
Robert Ritter von Greim (Robert Greim; June 22, 1892 - May 24, 1945) was a German Field Marshal, pilot and army officer.
- Hugo Sperrle
Hugo Sperrle, was a German field marshal of the "Luftwaffe" during World War II. Born in Ludwigsburg, he joined the German Army in 1903 and transferred to the Luftstreitkräfte (German Army Air Service) at the start of World War I, serving as an observer to the end of the war. Sperrle joined the Freikorps at the end of the war after the disbanding of the Air Service, before rejoining the German Army.
- Wilhelm Groener
Karl Eduard Wilhelm Groener (November 22 1867 - May 3 1939) was a German soldier and politician
- Maximilian von Weichs
Maximilian Maria Joseph Karl Gabriel Lamoral Reichsfreiherr von Weichs zu Glon (12 November 1881 - 27 June 1954) was a German Nazi generalfeldmarschall and a military leader in World War II.
- Walter Ulbricht
Walter Ulbricht (June 30, 1893 - August 1, 1973) was a German communist statesman. As First Secretary of the Socialist Unity Party from 1950 to 1971, he held arguably the central role in the early development and establishment of German Democratic Republic (East Germany).
- Alfred von Tirpitz
Alfred von Tirpitz was a German Admiral, Secretary of State of the Imperial Naval Office, the powerful administrative branch of the Kaiserliche Marine from 1897 until 1916. Born in Küstrin in Brandenburg, the son of a senior civil servant, he grew up in Frankfurt (Oder). He joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 and attended Kiel Naval School, gaining his commission in 1869. Upon the creation of the German fleet in 1871 he was part of a torpedo squadron.