Rank insignia of the German Bundeswehr and Related Topics

German Air Force

Aerial warfare branch of the Bundeswehr, the armed forces of Germany.

This Canadair CL-13 is preserved at the Military History Museum in Berlin.

One of 212 Panavia Tornado IDSs delivered to the Luftwaffe

A Luftwaffe Tornado ECR carrying an AGM-88-HARM missile during the air campaign over Kosovo in 1999

A Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoon (single-seater version)

A Luftwaffe Eurofighter Typhoon 30+68 with the painting "60 years of Luftwaffe", 2016

A German Air Force MIM-104 Patriot system

Luftwaffe Panavia Tornados at CFB Goose Bay

A preserved Fokker D.VII with the original-style Balkenkreuz of 1918

A Eurofighter Typhoon during exercise Frisian Flag

A CH-53G in flight over ILA Berlin, 2016

The ranks of the Air Force are identical to the ranks of the German Army.

Stabshauptmann

German Senior Captain rank and the highest military rank in the Bundeswehr for specialist officers (Offiziere des Militärfachlichen Dienstes (OffzMilFD)).

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A poster showing the rank insignia of the officers of several armed forces at the time of the Second World War.

Military rank

Armed forces, police, intelligence agencies or other institutions organized along military lines.

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Karl Hanke

Official of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) during its rule over Germany and served as the fifth and last Reichsführer of the Schutzstaffel (SS).

Reichsminister Goebbels has a meeting with his Staatssekretär, Walther Funk, in his office at the Ministry. In the background, Referent des Ministers Karl Hanke takes a call.

Gauleiter Hanke addresses a new battalion of Volkssturm in Breslau, February 1945.

Delegation of German officers walking for negotiations before capitulation of Festung Breslau, 6 May 1945.

Panzerschütze - 1937

BOAC Flight 777

Scheduled British Overseas Airways Corporation civilian airline flight from Portela Airport in Lisbon, Portugal to Whitchurch Airport near Bristol, England.

BOAC Flight 777 was shot down over the Bay of Biscay.

Photo taken by BOAC at Whitchurch to commemorate the 500th flight on the Bristol-Lisbon line on 16 June 1942; the aircraft is the DC-3 G-AGBD/PH-ARB Buizerd (buzzard). The crew of the downed G-AGBB are included (Tepas middle row and de Koning top row standing, both just left of left engine propeller blade).

An aerial view of Henderson Park (2005). Part of the old Whitchurch runway is still visible.

A Douglas C-47 Dakota, silhouetted by night at Gibraltar by the batteries of searchlights on the Rock, as it is prepared for a flight to the United Kingdom.

Actor Leslie Howard was the best-known of the 17 crew and passengers aboard BOAC Flight 777.

G-AGBB BOAC / PH-ALI KLM, search 3 June 1943 by Spanish destroyer

Eight Junkers Ju 88C-6s similar to this preserved Ju 88R-1 night fighter version on display at RAF Hendon attacked and downed BOAC Flight 777.

Winston Churchill giving his famous 'V' sign

The names of four of the eight pilots are known: Staffelführer Oberleutnant (Oblt) Herbert Hintze, Leutnant Max Wittmer-Eigenbrot, Oblt Albrecht Bellstedt, and Oberfeldwebel (Ofw) Hans Rakow.

Outline of Germany

Provided as an overview of and topical guide to Germany:

An enlargeable map of the Federal Republic of Germany

An enlargeable topographic map of Germany

An enlargeable satellite image of Germany

Old Town of Regensburg (UNESCO world heritage)

The Oktoberfest in Munich is the world's largest fair

The German Unity Flag is a national symbol of German Reunification that was raised on 3 October 1990. It waves in front of the Bundestag in Berlin (seat of the German parliament).

Michael Schumacher has claimed 91 race victories and 7 championships in his F1 career.

Wind turbine at Trampe (Breydin), wind farm Heckelberg-Brunow/Breydin

Military ranks of Germany

Presidential Order on Rank Designation and Uniform of Soldiers

In Germany, the Presidential Order on Rank Designation and Uniform of Soldiers (Anordnung des Bundespräsidenten über die Dienstgradbezeichnungen und die Uniform der Soldaten) is a presidential decree on the ranks and uniforms of the German Federal Defence Forces (Bundeswehr).

Gottfried Huyn von Geleen

Gottfried, Count Huyn, Baron of Geleen or Godefridus Comes ab Huyn Baro de Geleen (died 27 August 1657), rose to the rank of Field Marshal in the service of the Holy Roman Emperor during the 30 Years War.

Geleen joined the imperial service in 1636 with the rank of generalwachtmeister (major-general).

Frohnlach

Located in Upper Franconia in the district of (Landkreis) Coburg.

Hauptstraße 1, former inn Goldener Adler [Golden Eagle]

Kellergasse 1, timbered house dating from 1854

The back and forth brought Imperial troops, Hungarians, Croats, and Lombards, and Generalwachtmeister (Major General)] Heinrich Holk’s cavalrymen and even ravagers from Kronach to the place.

Adrian von Enkevort

Brabantine nobleman and Generalfeldmarschall who fought during the course of the Thirty Years' War and the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59).

In 1636, Enkevort was promoted to Generalwachtmeister and sent to the north where he fought under Spanish general Ottavio Piccolomini, fighting the French in the Spanish Netherlands and Picardy as part of the Franco-Spanish War (1635–59).