This is a list of full generals in the Royal Danish Army and Air Force. The rank of general (or full general to distinguish it from the lower general officer ranks) is the highest rank currently achievable by serving officers. It ranks above lieutenant general and was prior to 1842 below general field marshal.
Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) | Appointed | Retired | Branch | Ref. |
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Poul Vendelbo Løvenørn (1686–1740) | 1738 As general of the cavalry | 27 February 1740 † | Royal Danish Army | [1] | |
Conrad Ahlefeldt (1707–1791) | 1763 As general of the cavalry | 25 January 1771 | Royal Danish Army | [2] | |
Heinrich Wilhelm von Huth (1717–1806) | 17 January 1772 As general of the infantry | Royal Danish Army | [3] | ||
Ernest Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1727–1780) | 1763 As general of the infantry | 3 July 1765 | Royal Danish Army | [4] | |
Friedrich August von Finck (1718–1766) | 21 October 1764 As general of the infantry | 24 February 1766 † | Royal Danish Army | [5] | |
Andreas Hauch (1708–1782) | 21 October 1774 As general of the infantry | 19 May 1782 † | Royal Danish Army | [6] | |
Caspar Moltke (1738–1800) | 11 October 1791 As general of the cavalry | 17 April 1800 † | Royal Danish Army | [6] | |
Ernst Peymann (1737–1823) | 2 January 1795 As general of the infantry | 18 January 1809 | Royal Danish Army | [7] | |
Crown Prince Frederick of Denmark (1768–1839) | 3 December 1839 † | Royalty Royal Danish Army | |||
Frederik Carl Christian Ulrik Ahlefeldt Laurvigen (1742–1825) | 22 February 1808 | 1808 | Royal Danish Army | [8] | |
Adam Ludvig Moltke (1743–1810) | 1 April 1808 | 11 March 1808 | Royal Danish Army | [9] | |
Prince Frederik of Hesse (1771–1845) | 1808 | 1842 [lower-alpha 1] | Royalty Royal Danish Army | [10] | |
Prince Christian of Hesse (1776–1814) | 1 January 1812 | 14 November 1814 † | Royalty Royal Danish Army | [11] | |
Crown Prince Christian of Denmark (1786–1848) | 28 January 1812 | 20 January 1848 † | Royalty Royal Danish Army | [11] | |
Emil of Slesvig-Holsten-Sønderborg-Augustenborg (1767–1841) | 31 July 1815 | ? | Royal Danish Army | [12] | |
Carl Friederich Bielefeldt (1752–1825) | 1815 | ? | Royal Danish Army | [13] | |
Joachim Castenschiold (1743–1817) | 5 November 1809 | Royal Danish Army | [14] | ||
Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1792–1863) | 1 August 1829 | 29 June 1863 † | Royalty Royal Danish Army | [15] | |
Frantz Bülow (1769–1844) | 1 January 1840 (À la suite) | Royal Danish Army | [16] | ||
Otto von Blome (1770–1849) | 27 February 1841 | ? | Royal Danish Army | [17] | |
Frederik Caspar Conrad Frieboe (1767–1846) | 1 July 1842 (À la suite) | Royal Danish Army | [18] | ||
Frederick VII of Denmark (1808–1863) | 20 January 1848 | 15 November 1863 † | Royalty | [19] | |
Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (1787–1867) | 28 February 1848 | 5 September 1867 † | Royalty | [20] | |
Christian IX of Denmark (1818–1906) | 15 November 1863 | 29 January 1906 † | Royalty | [21] | |
Christian de Meza (1792–1865) | 19 December 1864 | 1 April 1865 (À la suite) | Royal Danish Army | [18] | |
Otto Bülow (1812–1895) | 18 September 1867 | 3 April 1882 | Royal Danish Army | [22] | |
Gustav Castenskiold (1815–1886) | 18 September 1867 | 8 August 1885 | Royal Danish Army | [23] | |
Frederik Dreyer (1814–1898) | 18 September 1867 | 31 March 1881 | Royal Danish Army | [24] | |
Henri de Dompierre de Jonquières (1816–1879) | 18 September 1867 | ? | Royal Danish Army | [25] [26] | |
Friedemann Maximilian Müller (1808–1884) | 18 September 1867 | 1 January 1879 | Royal Danish Army | [27] | |
Johan Waldemar Neergaard (1810–1879) | 18 September 1867 | 14 December 1877 | Royal Danish Army | [28] | |
Georg Julius Wilhelm Nielsen (1811–1891) | 18 September 1867 | 1 April 1881 | Royal Danish Army | [29] | |
Paul Scharffenberg (1810–1882) | 18 September 1867 | 21 April 1879 | Royal Danish Army | [30] | |
Peter Frederik Steinmann (1812–1894) | 18 September 1867 14 December 1877 | 11 June 1875 3 April 1882 | Royal Danish Army | [31] | |
Frederik Stiernholm (1822–1879) | 18 September 1867 | 21 April 1879 | Royal Danish Army | [32] | |
Wilhelm Carl Bernt Stricker (1817–1885) | 18 September 1867 | 26 August 1885 † | Royal Danish Army | [33] | |
Ernst Wilster (1808–1881) | 18 September 1867 | 14 December 1877 | Royal Danish Army | [34] | |
Philipp Wörishöffer (1804–1892) | 18 September 1867 | 2 April 1874 | Royal Danish Army | [35] | |
Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark (1843–1912) | 18 September 1867 | 14 May 1912 † | Royalty | [36] | |
Ernst du Plat (1816–1892) | 24 September 1870 | Royal Danish Army | [37] | ||
Edvard Valentin Schreiber (1822–1892) | 8 October 1870 | 13 November 1889 | Royal Danish Army | [38] | |
Wolfgang von Haffner (1810–1887) | 30 August 1871 (À la suite) | 23 December 1872 | Royal Danish Army | [39] | |
Carl Wolle (1813–1893) | 22 April 1874 | Royal Danish Army | [40] | ||
Christian Bauditz (1815–1909) | 23 April 1874 | 29 January 1885 | Royal Danish Army | [41] | |
Christian Albert Frederik Thomsen (1827–1896) | 16 July 1874 Out of number | ? | Royal Danish Army | [42] | |
Stephan Ankjær (1820–1892) | 16 July 1874 | 15 October 1888 | Royal Danish Army | [43] | |
Poul Egede Glahn (1811–1896) | 17 December 1876 (À la suite) | Royal Danish Army | [44] [45] | ||
Jacob Ernst (1820–1897) | 31 July 1877 | 21 July 1890 | Royal Danish Army | [46] | |
Wilhelm Kauffmann (1821–1892) | 1 January 1879 | 18 March 1891 | Royal Danish Army | [47] | |
Lorentz August Bie (1815–1891) | 10 January 1879 | 29 January 1885 | Royal Danish Army | [48] | |
Johan Ditlev Høst (1818–1882) | 21 April 1879 | 9 February 1882 | Royal Danish Army | [49] | |
Ludolph Fog (1825–1897) | 21 April 1879 | 1895 | Royal Danish Army | [50] | |
Heinrich Theodor Wenck (1810–1885) | 15 December 1879 (À la suite) | Royal Danish Army | [51] | ||
Prince Wilhelm of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1816–1893) | 1880 | 5 September 1893 † | Royalty | [20] | |
Gustaf V of Sweden (1858–1950) | 20 December 1907 | 29 October 1950 † | Royalty | [52] | |
Edward VII of England (1841–1910) | 22 April 1908 | 6 May 1910 † | Royalty | [53] | |
Franz Joseph I of Austria (1830–1916) | 11 May 1908 | 21 November 1916 † | Royalty | [53] | |
Christian X of Denmark (1870–1947) | 15 May 1912 | 20 April 1947 † | Royalty | [52] | |
Frederick Francis IV of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1882–1945) | 19 July 1913 | 17 November 1945 † | Royalty | [52] | |
George VI of the United Kingdom (1895–1952) | 13 December 1937 | 6 February 1952 † | Royalty | [54] | |
Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden (1882–1973) | 24 March 1952 | 15 September 1973 † | Royalty | [55] | |
Frederik IX of Denmark (1899–1972) | 20 April 1947 | 14 January 1972 † | Royalty | [55] | |
Kurt Ramberg (1908–1997) | 1 October 1962 | 30 November 1973 | Royal Danish Air Force | [56] | |
Otto Blixenkrone-Møller (1912–2006) | 1 December 1972 | 30 April 1977 | Royal Danish Army | [57] | |
Knud Jørgensen (1919–1990) | 1 May 1977 | 30 September 1984 | Royal Danish Army | [57] | |
Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (1967–2018) | 1981 | 13 February 2018 † | Royalty | [58] | |
Otto K. Lind (1920–2000) | 1 October 1984 | 30 November 1985 | Royal Danish Army | [57] | |
Jørgen Lyng (born 1934) | 1 November 1989 | 31 March 1996 | Royal Danish Army | [57] | |
Christian Hvidt (born 1942) | 20 August 1996 | 30 September 2002 | Royal Danish Air Force | [57] | |
Hans Jesper Helsø (born 1948) | 1 October 2002 | 31 July 2008 | Royal Danish Army | [57] | |
Knud Bartels (born 1948) | 16 November 2009 | 15 July 2015 | Royal Danish Army | [59] [60] | |
Peter Bartram (born 1961) | 20 March 2012 | 10 January 2017 | Royal Danish Army | [61] [62] | |
Bjørn Bisserup (born 1960) | 10 January 2017 | 1 December 2020 | Royal Danish Army | [62] [63] | |
Flemming Lentfer (born 1964) | 1 December 2020 | 3 April 2024 | Royal Danish Air Force | [64] [65] | |
Frederik X of Denmark (born 1968) | 14 January 2024 | Royalty | [66] | ||
Michael Hyldgaard (born 1964) | 3 April 2024 | Royal Danish Army | [65] [67] |
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