Talk:Comparative military ranks of World War I

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The Luftwaffe was formed in WWI and there were also Austrian and Ottoman Navies. Information on these should be added if anyone knows Dainamo 21:25, 1 May 2004 (UTC)

Actually, the German air force remained part of the army during WWI. -- Necrothesp 22:56, 15 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Thank you, that has saved me some confusion in other areas to do with this Dainamo

The rank of Generaloberst (or "Colonel-General") in the German and Austrian armies would come between those of General and Field-Marshal in the British army. General/General, Lieutenant-General/Generalleutnant and Major-General/Generalmajor were all equivalent. The German and Austrian armies had no rank corresponding to that of Brigadier-General. Donald

It's generally considered that German ranks equated to one below apparently equivalent British ranks (Generalmajors usually commanded brigades, Generalleutnants commanded divisions and Generals commanded corps, one level below British Major Generals, Lieutenant Generals and Generals) and that Generaloberst equated to General in the British Army. But as with all rank equivalents, it's not an exact science. -- Necrothesp 20:58, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

'generally considered' is not a term for an encyclopedia - what about a source???? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.183.213.15 (talk) 12:52, 21 March 2008 (UTC)

Contents 1 translations 2 Belgium and others 3 Ritt baron 4 Majors in the Russian Army 5 Air Ranks? / German Generals 6 Americans?

[edit] translations

Is there any reason why the Russian rank names are in most cases translated (or pseudo-translated) into English but the others countries' are not? If it's just a desire to have some Latin characters in there then a transliteration would seem more appropriate.

• I would oppose translations. 12.220.94.199 01:36, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

Not sure where you're coming from here. They are transliterated, not translated. Since they were generally based on German ranks, the transliteration just doesn't look very Russian. -- Necrothesp 03:40, 29 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Belgium and others

Here is a source for Belgium and other countries. [1] 12.220.94.199 01:36, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Ritt baron

Rittmeister was also used (I think) by WW1 German air service; von Richthoven was Rittmeister Manfred Baron vR.

Has anybody considered a pre-WW1/historical table? Trekphiler 17:39, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Majors in the Russian Army

The rank of Major in the Russian army was discontinued in 1884! (source: uniforminsignia.net)

Lukasz-40

[edit] Air Ranks? / German Generals

Is there any particular need to include the air ranks? At the moment only the British column has them, and they're identical to the army rank - I assume that these are representing the Royal Flying Corps, and not the Royal Naval Air Service. IIRC the RAF was the first independent air service, and not until after the war - it seems to me that air ranks, if they differ, should be handled similarly to the Germanic Rittmeister rank, as an alternative within whatever branch of service the air unit is part of.

On an unrelated topic, I was under the impression that both Germany and Austria-Hungary used the form "General der [branch]", as shown in the Austro-Hungarian column. Xt828 21:40, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Americans?

Why aren't Americans included? CsikosLo (talk) 14:53, 8 May 2008 (UTC)