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Such questions can only make Americans: A reader of the American magazine MHG ("The Quarterly Journal of Military History") wanted to know who were the ten largest German generals of all time. response Robert M. Citino, a professor of European history was at the University of North Texas and author of a book with the wonderful title "The German Way of War."

Hitler, who famously celebrated as the "greatest general of all time" and "Gröfaz" taunts was missing, incidentally. Famous names such as Rommel and Hindenburg are also present. Even the Duke of Brunswick , after all, Frederick the Great as the greatest Commander of the 18th Century celebrated missing - his successes in the Seven Years' War may have been too much obscured by the subsequent failures in the first and second coalition war (cannonade of Valmy, Jena and Auerstadt).

Frederick the Great

interesting from a Protestant point of view: the ten top generals apparently is not one Catholic (or was Manstein Catholic, he was indeed from Berlin - but? Strasbourg attended a Catholic high school). Now before anyone scoffs, "Catholics are just the Italians in Germany," we must make it clear: the inquisitive reader has the period at issue, from the beginning to the time of Frederick the Great, limited to 1945. Citino has then expanded its list, up to the time of the Great Elector - but still fall to Tilly or Wallenstein made from the outset. Citino also left out all the Austrians, although it had made in the times at issue here, still not as accurate as today between Austrians and Germans. On the other hand, was the largest Austrian general of all time, Prince Eugen, anyway Frenchman.

And here's the list:

10th Heinz Guderian , the great theorist and practitioner of the German armor 2nd World War

9th Eberhard von Mackensen , also a tank commander in the 2nd World War II, when the campaign of 1942 with his corps to Citinos assessment establishes a new speed record for military operations

8th Erich von Manstein , including the planned German campaign in France in 1940

7th George of Derfflinger , field marshal of the Great Elector. He was largely responsible for defeating the Swedes at Fehrbellin

6th Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz , the most important cavalry commander Frederick the Great, who decided to include the Battle of Rossbach

5th Friedrich Karl, the Red Prince, and a commander in the Austro-Prussian war of 1866 and the Franco-German War of 1870-71

4th Friedrich Wilhelm, the Great Elector , the Brandenburg-Prussia in the first place as a military power established

third Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher victor over Napoleon at Waterloo (with Wellington)

second Helmuth von Moltke the Elder , army reformer, military theorists and victorious commander in the wars of 1864 (against Denmark), 1866 and 1870-71.

first Frederick the Great. About his battles by the way we learn no more so than in the highly informative book "The wars of Frederick II" the East German military historian Olaf Groehler. In it every single battle in the wars of the king is described in detail. Unfortunately, the book is already available only second-hand - via ZVAB get it quite easily.