Biagio Abrate

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Biagio Abrate

Biagio Abrate (born November 8, 1949 in Sant'Albano Stura , Piedmont ) is a retired Italian general . From January 2011 to January 2013 he was Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces .

Military career

Advise against graduated from 1969 to 1974 the military academies in Modena and Turin and was as officer then platoon leader in the Alpini - Battalion Bolzano in Brixen , South Tyrol . In 1975 he was transferred to the Trento Alpini Battalion in Welsberg-Taisten in the Puster Valley . There, he served as lieutenant and captain chief a mortar - and a mountain infantry - company . From 1979 he served as a trainer at the mountain troop school in Aosta . From 1983 to 1984 and from 1986 to 1987 Abrate completed general staff training for the army in Civitavecchia . Until 1990 he worked as a major and lieutenant colonel in human resources in the Army General Staff in Rome . Abrate commanded the Bassano alpine battalion in San Candido from 1990 to 1992 , after which he was chief of staff at the mountain troop school in Aosta until 1994.

In 1994 Abrate became head of the military district of Florence as colonel . From 1995 to 1996 he completed a course at the Armed Forces Command Academy in Rome, after which he headed a department in the office of the Defense Minister until 1998 . In 1998 Abrate became deputy commander of the Alpini Brigade Taurinense in Turin, and in 1999 as brigadier general then commander of the brigade . With the staff of the Taurinense he led the Multinational Brigade West of the KFOR in Peć , Kosovo from July to November 2000 . From November 2000 to July 2001 he was chief of staff in the mountain troop command in Bolzano .

In July 2001 Abrate became Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Defense, and in February 2006 he was appointed Head of Cabinet. In these two functions, he served until 2010 under ministers belonging to both center-right and center-left coalitions. Abrate was promoted to major general in early 2003 and to lieutenant general in January 2007 . On February 10, 2010, Abrate became Secretary General and Head of Office of the Ministry of Defense and thus also "National Armaments Director ". At the end of November 2010, the Italian Council of Ministers designated him as the new Chief of Staff of the armed forces. Abrate took over this office on January 18, 2011 from General Vincenzo Camporini . On January 31, 2013, he gave it to Admiral Luigi Binelli Mantelli and retired.

In addition to his military training, General Abrate has a master's degree in political science ( University of Trieste ). He is a ski instructor and mountain guide . Abrate is married and has two sons.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Was first cadre in the course of the army reform of 1975 and then completely dissolved.
  2. ↑ Was later relocated to Bruneck and disbanded there as the 11th Alpini Regiment ( Brigade Tridentina ) in 2002.
  3. ↑ Today as the 6th Alpini Regiment, a partially active training association in Bruneck and Innichen.
  4. ↑ No longer exists today in this form. Comparable to the former German Defense District Command .
  5. ↑ The Segretario Generale della Difesa - Direttore Nazionale degli Armamenti (SGD / DNA) report to all administrative and procurement departments of the ministry. He is a lieutenant general with a fourth “functional” star .
personal data
SURNAME Abrate, Biagio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian officer, Chief of Staff of the Italian Armed Forces (2011-2013)
DATE OF BIRTH November 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Sant'Albano Stura