Army general was the highest rank of the national People's Army of the GDR regularly which can be reached. The highest rank of the national People's Army, Marshal of the GDR, was never assigned.

The rank insignia of the army general be based on already the twisted shoulder piece usual in the armed forces and former German armies, contains however four stars arranged in a line.

Army general was at the same time usually the military rank of the Minister for national defense of the GDR as well as the Minister for public security and the GDR Minister of the Interior, which were a boss of the German people police at the same time.

Since the rank structure was comparable generally speaking to range Warsaw Treaty (and/or the Soviet model had a feeling for), gave it the rank of the army general in numerous further states, so in the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other more.

The comparable rank of the German Federal Armed Forces is a general.

Army generals of the NVA

• Willi Stoph
• Karl-Heinz Hoffmann
• Heinz Kessler

Other army generals

• Erich Mielke (Minister for public security)
• Friedrich Dickel (Minister of the Interior)

See also

• General OF the Army
• Four-star general

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