General
* 4th of August 1897
† 30th of November 1982
| 1939-04-01 | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 1940-08-01 | Colonel |
| 1942-01-01 | Major-General |
| 1943-01-01 | Lieutenant-General |
| 1955-11-01 | Lieutenant-General (Bundeswehr) |
| 1957-06-14 | General (Bundeswehr) |
| 1937-08-01 | – | 1940-10-15 | General Staff Officer, 1st Section (Operations), Army General Staff |
| 1940-10-15 | – | 1944-06-10 | Chief of Operations Section, Army General Staff |
| 1944-06-10 | – | 1944-07-20 | Acting Chief of the Army General Staff |
| 1944-07-20 | – | 1944-07-21 | Wounded and hospitalised |
| 1944-07-21 | – | 1944-07-22 | Unemployed |
| 1944-07-22 | – | 1944-10-XX | Arrested |
| 1944-10-XX | Released | ||
| 1944-10-XX | – | 1945-03-25 | Unemployed |
| 1945-03-25 | – | 1945-05-XX | Chief of Armed Forces Mapping Affairs, Armed Forces High Command OKW |
| 1945-05-XX | – | 1945-05-08 | General for Special Employment to the General Inspector of Panzer Troops, Replacement Army |
| 1945-05-08 | – | 1947-06-30 | Prisoner of War |
| 1947-06-30 | Released | ||
| 1955-11-01 | Joins the Bundeswehr | ||
| 1955-11-22 | – | 1957-02-27 | Chairman of Military Operations Directives, Federal Ministry of Defence |
| 1957-02-28 | – | 1957-05-31 | Director of Department IV (Armed Forces), Federal Ministry of Defence |
| 1957-06-01 | – | 1961-03-31 | Inspector-General of the Bundeswehr |
| 1961-04-01 | – | 1964-03-31 | Chairman of the Standing Military Committee, NATO, Washington |
| 1964-03-31 | Retired |