Hans-Christoph Ammon

Hans-Christoph Ammon (born August 26, 1950 in Celle ) is a Brigadier General a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . From 2007 to 2010 he was the commander of the Special Forces Command and in this capacity he was also General Special Forces .

Military career

Ammon began his service in the Bundeswehr on July 1, 1970 in Panzerartilleriebataillon 75 and was promoted to lieutenant on April 1, 1972 . With his promotion to first lieutenant on October 1, 1974, he became a battery officer in the 111 Field Artillery Battalion.

From 1975 to 1978 he served as an intelligence officer ( S2 ) in the 165 armored artillery battalion in Wentorf . On April 26, 1978 he was promoted to captain and was employed as the battery chief of the 4th battery in the 95th Panzer Artillery Training Battalion in Munster .

From 1981 to 1983 he completed the 24th General Staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg , where he wrote a scientific thesis on the subject of "Soviet deception operations - lessons learned from them for the defense - presented and evaluated using examples". He then served as head of General Staff Department 4 (Logistics) of Panzer Brigade 33 in Celle until 1986 and was promoted to major on October 1, 1985 . Between 1986 and 1987 he was a trainee at the Indian Defense Service Staff College .

After that, Ammon served as head of General Staff Division 3 (training and operations) of Panzer Brigade 2 . With the promotion to lieutenant colonel on October 21, 1989 , he became commander of the 25th Panzer Artillery Battalion.

Between 1991 and 1994 he was head of General Staff Department 3 of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division / Wehrbereichskommando I. During this time, he also worked abroad at UNOSOM II in Somalia , where he served as head of staff of the German Somalia Support Association from November 1993 to April 1994 .

After his return he served as G3-op until 1996 in General Staff Department 3 of the Army Command in Koblenz . On January 16, 1997, he was promoted to Colonel and took over the service of Chief Operation and Deputy Chief of Staff (G3) in the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) until 2000 . In this function, he was deployed with the staff during his second foreign assignment from February 1999 to October 1999 in Kosovo as part of KFOR 6 in Skopje / Pristina .

In 2000 he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense and served there until 2003 as head of the division for operational planning in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü SV 2).

From 2003 to 2005 he was the commander of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 30 . Before his third assignment abroad from July to December 2005, he was promoted to brigadier general on May 1, 2005 , and served as commander of the 8th German mission contingent ISAF and deputy commander of the Kabul Multinational Brigade (KMNB) in Afghanistan. From 2006 to 2007 he served again in the Allied Europe Rapid Reaction Corps , this time as Commander Rear Support Command and senior German officer (DDO) on the command staff.

His fourth assignment abroad took him back to Afghanistan from May 2006 to February 2007, where he was deployed as Director Combined Joint Operation Center at ISAF headquarters.

On June 29, 2007 he took over the special forces command in Calw from Rainer Hartbrod , which he transferred to Colonel i. G. Heinz Josef Feldmann , with whom he had served in the Army Command between 1994 and 1996, and then retired.

Private

Ammon is married and has two children.

Awards

• Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr (1993),
• Mission medal of the Bundeswehr Kosovo Verification Mission in bronze (1999),
• Federal Cross of Merit (2002),
• Mission medal of the Bundeswehr ISAF in bronze (2005),
• Operation medal of the Bundeswehr ISAF in silver (2007).

Web links

• General can do something else too. October 5, 2010, archived from the original on October 28, 2012 ; accessed on January 1, 2020 : "As a civilian and voluntary construction worker, Ammon will work in the future" 
• Killing is part of the job. KSK commander Ammon in conversation. May 20, 2010, accessed March 30, 2011 . 
• KSK boss attacks Afghanistan policy . November 28, 2008 ( tagesspiegel.de ).