Colonel-General
* 10th of May 1890
† 16th of October 1946
| 1933-10-01 | Lieutenant-Colonel |
| 1935-10-01 | Colonel |
| 1939-04-01 | Major-General |
| 1940-07-19 | Lieutenant-General |
| 1940-07-19 | General of Artillery |
| 1944-01-30 | Colonel-General |
| 1932-10-01 | – | 1935-05-21 | Attached to the Reichwehr Ministry |
| 1935-05-21 | – | 1935-07-01 | Attached to the Ministry of War |
| 1935-07-01 | – | 1938-02-04 | Chief of National Defence Section L, Ministry of War |
| 1938-02-04 | – | 1938-11-20 | Chief of Operations Office, Armed Forces High Command OKW |
| 1938-11-20 | – | 1939-08-25 | Artillery Commander 44 |
| 1939-08-25 | – | 1939-08-27 | Attached to the Operations Office, Armed Forces High Command OKW |
| 1939-08-27 | – | 1940-08-08 | Chief of Operations Office, Armed Forces High Command OKW |
| 1940-08-08 | – | 1945-05-06 | Chief of the Operations Staff, Armed Forces High Command OKW |
| 1945-05-01 | – | 1945-05-06 | Temporary Chief of the Armed Forces High Command OKW |
| 1945-05-13 | – | 1945-05-23 | Chief of the Armed Forces High Command OKW |
| 1945-05-13 | – | 1945-05-23 | Chief of the Army General Staff, Army High Command OKH |
| 1945-05-23 | – | 1946-10-01 | Prisoner of War |
| 1946-10-01 | Condemned to death by the International Military Tribunal as war criminal | ||
| 1946-10-16 | Executed |