Generals of World War II

Well done Steen.

 

Wow Steen great site. I spent a long time looking through it, very well done!

 

I have been working hard on getting new information, and I have today made an update of the database. More than 1000 new generals have been added to the database - primarily Chinese but also a considerably number of British and US generals has been added. Besides adding new generals a lot of information has been added to the existing ones – again it is mainly the British, Chinese and US sections that have benefitted from this update. More than 300 previously faceless generals are now with a photo.
I hope that you will continue to find the database useful.

I see that I have neglected to bring information about my website updates. So here is a status.

The database now covers 17409 generals distributed over these nations.

AUS 235
BEL 112
BGR 107
BRA 27
CAN 219
CHN 1139
CZE 196
DEN 16
EST 20
FIN 63
FRA 1008
GER 257
GBR 2622
GRC 61
HUN 366
HVR 93
ITA 1181
JPN 1626
LVA 33
LTU 36
NLD 44
NOR 11
NZL 78
POL 196
ROU 270
SOV 5490 (This also covers the generals of the Air Force VVS)
THA 30
USA 1656 (This also covers the generals of the Air Force USAAF)
YUG 177
ZAF 37

There are now photos over a thousand generals.

Enjoy

Hello Steen,

Thanks for then update. Have you got a contribution table like the earlier one above!

Best,

Steve.

 

Thank you all.

Steve - it is easily produced. Here you are:

AUS 251
BEL 113
BGR 107
BRA 75
CAN 232
CHN 3898
CZE 198
DEN 16
EST 19
FIN 63
FRA 1025
GER 264
GBR 3058
GRC 63
HUN 367
HVR 90
ITA 1195
JPN 1622
LVA 33
LTU 19
NLD 44
NOR 11
NZL 77
POL 181
ROU 243
SOV 5549 (This also covers the generals of the Air Force VVS)
THA 30
USA 1973 (This also covers the generals of the Air Force USAAF)
YUG 255
ZAF 38

In the cases were the number has gone down it is because some of the generals was previously thought to have served as generals during the war. Further research has this wasn't the case, they have now been removed.

There are now photos of over 5000 of the generals.

Enjoy.

 

Thanks for that Steen. I like your website!

I am surprised at the low number of German Generals. Is this still work in progress?

Best,

Steve.

 

Thanks for that Steen. I like your website!

I am surprised at the low number of German Generals. Is this still work in progress?

Best,

Steve.

I agree i was suprised as well. Good information on the ones that are there, but i was hoping to see more!

 

Yes - the number of German generals in the database is low. I am still have to add a bit more than 3000 Germans generals. I do have information on them - so it is just a question of time. I must admit that I have neglected the German generals and concentrated on the other nations as information on most of the German generals is available on the net.

 

After a long time preparing it a new update was made yesterday. More than 400 (Including German) generals have been added to the database bringing the number up to 21502 generals covered. I added photos on more 500 generals.

Otherwise a lot of information has been added to the American, Chinese, French and Japanese generals.

Enjoy.

 

Thanks for that

 

Well done Steen.

The work is never done.

Cheers

Geoff

 

German Generals were sacked for A.H.'s mistakes, then brought back, that is why the Wermacht Generals have a low number from 1939 - 1945 , von Manstein, Guderian both sacked then brought back, had von Manstein had a stronger OKH , that would listen to his ideas he could have fought the numerically superior soviets to a stalemate!

 

I don't believe that for a moment.

 

This is not correct : Manstein was sacked in march 1944 and never came back .

There was also no need to listen to Manstein :stalemate in the East was excluded .What Manstein wanted was that everything would be sent to AGS,if so,this would result in the collaps of AGN and AGC.

 

Hi,

It has been a while, and I have been inactive on most forums. I just want to let you know, that I am still working on my database and I have today launched an update of the database, which now includes more than 27.000 generals or equivalents. Thank you to all the relatives, collectors, writers and other contributors who has assisted me – every bits of information counts! I would however like to mention two who have given invaluable support: Tom Chan and Mikhail Eremenko in the Chinese and Soviet sections respectively.

The stats below compared with those above gives you an idea where the updates has been made, though numerous entries has been updated without showing in the stats.

Enjoy

Country: Total number of generals - with photo - known year of birth – known year of death

Australia: 251 - 166 - 251 - 241
Belgium: 149 - 41 - 149 - 90
Brazil: 99 - 69 - 95 - 72
Bulgaria: 113 - 74 - 112 - 65
Canada: 236 - 122 - 230 - 209
China: 4928 - 542 - 3986 - 2997
Croatia: 90 - 17 - 90 - 76
Czechoslovakia: 198 - 44 - 197 170
Denmark: 16 - 16 - 16 - 16
Estonia: 19 - 19 - 19 - 19
Finland: 63 - 61 - 63 - 63
France: 1406 - 254 - 1402 - 1395
Germany: 292 - 109 - 291 - 288
Great Britain: 3063 - 518 - 2971 - 2863
Greece: 63 - 30 - 44 - 42
Hungary: 367 - 98 - 357 - 214
Italy: 1657 - 470 - 1570 - 486
Japan: 2711 - 300 - 2708 - 2471
Latvia: 33 - 33 - 33 -33
Lithuania: 21 - 20 - 21 - 21
Manchukuo: 193 - 4 - 4 - 3
New Zealand: 77 - 61 - 77 - 77
Norway: 11 - 9 - 11 - 11
Poland: 182 - 148 - 180 - 173
Romania: 474 - 161 - 329 - 293
South Africa: 38 - 16 - 34 - 32
Soviet Union: 8336 - 4531 - 6800 - 6325
Thailand: 30 - 16 - 20 - 20
The Netherlands : 46 - 39 - 45 - 44
USA: 1927 - 1469 - 1926 - 1916
Yugoslavia: 255 - 23 - 254 - 220

 

Photo of "Pip" Roberts to add to your database?

 

I met his granddaughter years ago. Nice woman.