General of the artillery designates:

1. a general rank in former German ground forces (imperial army, realm resistance and German armed forces), regularly second highest rank under the colonel general. Kavallerieoffiziere were promoted accordingly to general of the Kavallerie, Infanerieoffiziere to the general of the infantry. In the armed forces it in addition the equivalent ranks general of the armored troops, general gave to the supply troop, general of the mountain troops, general of the paratroopses, general of the Signal Corps. Today in the German Federal Armed Forces the rank lieutenant general corresponds to the traditional rank general of the artillery. The NVA did not know the rank, the general of the artillery corresponded here the colonel general.

2. in the German Federal Armed Forces the utility position for certain questions of the troop training and - equipment of the artillery responsible person officer.

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