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Kingdom of Prussia and German Empire [ edit] In the Prussian Army, the Imperial German Army and later in the Wehrmacht, the rank of Generalfeldmarschall had several privileges, such as elevation to nobility, equal protocol rank with Cabinet ministers, the right of reporting directly to the monarch, and a constant escort.
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In the Prussian military tradition, which set the tone for the 19th century and the German Empire, field marshals could only be promoted in wartime and the royal family was excluded, both resulting in the creation of the rank of colonel general with the rank of general field marshal (German: Generaloberst mit dem Range eines ...
NameDate Of PromotionBirth And Death21 June 16311583–1641Francis Albert of Saxe-Lauenburg24 November 16321598–164219 October 16381585–16451 January 16661605–76Hermann Emil Gottfried von Eichhorn (13 February 1848 – 30 July 1918) was a Prussian officer, later Generalfeldmarschall during World War I. He was a recipient of Pour le Mérite with Oak Leaves, one of the highest orders of merit in the Kingdom of Prussia and, subsequently, Imperial Germany.
Generalfeldmarschall: Generaloberst mit dem Rang als Generalfeldmarschall: Generaloberst: General der Waffengattung: Generalleutnant: Generalmajor (English designation) General Field Marshal: Colonel General in the rank of Field Marshal: Colonel General: General of the branch: Lieutenant General: Major General
Friedrich Heinrich Ernst Graf von Wrangel (13 April 1784 – 2 November 1877) was a Generalfeldmarschall of the Prussian Army. A Baltic German, he was nicknamed "Papa Wrangel" and was a member of the Baltic noble family of Wrangel.
In both the kingdom and the empire, the original constituencies were never redrawn to reflect changes in population, meaning that rural areas were grossly overrepresented by the turn of the 20th century. As a result, Prussia and the German Empire were something of a paradox.
