General of the Artillery (Austria)

(Feld- means battlefield, as used in the German title for field marshal (Feldmarschall), and -zeug- refers to the guns used by the artillery.)

In French, the equivalent expression was Grand maitre d'artillerie [fr], used since the days of Philip VI of France (r. 1328–1350).

Although the expression was common in the German artillery, Austrian, Hungarian and French militias also used the title.

In 1898, the Ministry of War of the Kingdom of Prussia created the position of a Feldzeugmeister which was comparable to the commander of a division.

[citation needed] It remained the second highest rank of the Austrian army until the creation of colonel-general (Generaloberst) in 1915.