Can u tell me who are some of the great German war generals?

Question

If u can give me a little details of their role that will be great!

Answer 1

Paul Hausser: tactical genius, his II SS Panzer Corp defeated a Soviet Army 7 times its size at the 3rd Battle of Kharkov (Feb 43). He was one of the few generals who directly disobeyed the Fuhrer's order to not retreat.

Rommel: notable for his blitzkrieg tactics in France and North Africa. His distinct leadership quality was leading from the front.

Kurt "Panzer" Meyer: A Waffen SS general awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oakleaves and Swords, the third highest military decoration in Germany. He was the youngest divisional commander of both sides. Notable battles were Kharkov & Normandy.

Manstein: strategical genius on the Eastern Front helped stem the tide of the Red Army after the defeat at Stalingrad.

Heinz Guderian: the father of blitzkrieg war, use of massed tank formations at the point of attack.

Answer 2

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel - commanded the Afrika Korps & defeated the British at many battles
General Heinz Guderian - the brains behind combined arms warfare
General Erich von Manstein - the brains behind the Ardennes offensive in the invasion of France
General Hasso von Manteufel
Field Marshal Albert Kesselring - a great strategists whose views unfortunately for Germany, dismissed by Hitler

Answer 3

The only great person, that comes to mind was not a General, but was Field Marshall Rommel. I don't know of any great German war Generals.

Answer 4

Well obviously Erwin Rommel was a genius tactician.He lead the Axis effort in North Africa.Heinz Guderian was a tank commander who led the german blitkrieg in Poland and France.

Answer 5

friederich ernst willhelm von paulus - commander of the heroic 8th army annihilated in stalingrad, russia '42. This commander refused to disobe hitler and personally led the futile defense of this great city. He then marched with his soldiers into the prison camps in siberia.
General karl Srudent
This man effectively created the first properly organised parachute battalion, for the wermacht. it was then immediately taken over by the luftwaffe. making germany the only nation to have the air force in charge of its paras.
student had many successes landings in belguim, greece, crete, etc.
then of course there waas erwin rommel. a master tactician.
there are a few more, but these should get u going!

Answer 6

The great triumvirate (Poland, France, Barbarossa) was von Bock, von Leeb and von Rundstedt, all of whom were fired when the winter set in along with Guderian. Von Manstein was the only German general who could regularly stand up to Hitler and Hitler would back down to.

Answer 7

appeasement is the be conscious you're in seek of for - particularly english coverage with the aid of top minister Chamberlain who theory he might desire to stay faraway from conflict with the aid of giving Germany the occupied lands (Austria, Czechoslovakia) the version with poland became that there became a treaty in consequence binding England and France to assist Poland - Russia at present became allied with germany and attacked poland from the east the protecting treaty meant an attack on poland might propose conflict with england and france for germany edit: martynia is unquestionably suitable that poland became left on my own - yet a press release of conflict became the consequence of the german invasion the later invasion of Denmark delivered on no reaction and in basic terms in Norway (April ´40) did the british deliver forces to guard the invasions of the netherlands, belgium and luxenburg have been already component of the invasion of france interior the summertime of ´40

Answer 8

Try
http://www.generals.dk/nation/Germany.html

I found it with about 5 seconds of hard work typing in
german generals "world war ii"
into http://www.google.com

Answer 9

There were no great generals they ultimately they all LOST.