Germany

The expression major general is a military rank and designates third-highest rank at army and Air Force of the German Federal Armed Forces. The sequence participates:

• Brigadier General (1 star)
• Major general (2 stars)
• Lieutenant general (3 stars)
• General (4 stars)

This is first confusing, since the second lieutenant under the major is settled, the lieutenant general however as the major general is: The explanation for this is the historical development of the rank designations. There were the following rank designations in the individual command stages.

• Company: Captain - second lieutenant - Wachtmeister
• Regiment: Colonel - lieutenant colonel - Colonel being awake master
• General: General - lieutenant general - general being awake master

When in Germany of the titles "“major"” arose, this displaced rank "“Colonel being awake master"”. That did not remain also without influence on rank "“general being awake master"”. Thus the major general became from the "“general being awake master"”.

Typical uses for major generals of the German Federal Armed Forces are division commander and staff department leader in the Ministry of Defense. They are paid after the salary bracket B7.

Of equal standing ranks

• • General staff physician
• Navy
  • Countering admiral, admiral medical officer

Switzerland

Swiss officer that used in Panmunjeom neutrally nation Supervisory Commission (NNSC), momentarily Gerhard has the rank of a major general. Otherwise in Switzerland a general is used only in times of war.

Austria

Since 2002 the Austrian federal army knows like the German Federal Armed Forces the rank major general as the secondarylowest general rank.

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