Kai Rohrschneider

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Kai Rohrschneider (2017) as Brigadier General and Chief of Staff of the US Army Europe

Kai Roland pipe cutter (* 4. March 1964 in Bochum ) is a Lieutenant General of the Army of the Armed Forces and since April 1, 2020 Head of leadership Armed Forces (feet SK) in the Federal Ministry of Defense (MoD).

Military career

Promotions

Training and first uses

Rohrschneider joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate in 1983 and was initially assigned to the 63rd Panzer Battalion in Bad Arolsen . From 1984 to 1988 he studied economic and organizational sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and completed the study as a business graduate from. From 1988 to 1992 he was employed as platoon leader and telecommunications officer in the tank training battalion 93 in Munster and from 1992 to 1996 as a company commander of a tank company in tank battalion 74 in Cuxhaven , before he took part in the general staff course at the command academy of the German armed forces in Hamburg from 1996 to 1998 Officer in the general staff service .

Service as a staff officer

Afterwards Rohrschneider was staff officer G3 (planning, operational command) in the Army Command in Koblenz . From 2000 to 2001 he attended the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Shrivenham, Great Britain . After that he was employed for the personnel management of the colonels and generals of the army in the BMVg. After two years as chief of the staff of the Jägerbrigade 37 in Frankenberg , he took over as commander of the 393 tank battalion in Bad Salzungen in 2005 , before he became personnel leader again, now as personnel officer in the personnel office of the Bundeswehr and now responsible for the personnel management of officers with general staff training for the army up to including to grade A 15.

Rohrschneider was then Head of Department 3 on the staff of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division in Leipzig before spending a year as a course participant at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto . From 2012 to 2014 he was head of division in the politics department at the BMVg in Berlin .

Service as a general

In March 2014 Rohrschneider took over the tank brigade 21 "Lipperland". In this role, Rohrschneider was promoted to brigadier general. He handed over this post to Colonel Heico Hübner on December 9, 2016 .

On January 1, 2017, Rohrschneider succeeded Brigadier General Markus Laubenthal , and thus the second German Chief of Staff of the US Army Europe . He handed over this post to Brigadier General Hartmut Renk in September 2018 to become Chief of Staff of the Multinational Command Operational Command in Ulm and promoted to Major General . On this post he replaced Major General Klaus Habersetzer . On April 1, 2020, Rohrschneider handed over his post in Ulm again to Brigadier General Hartmut Renk and was reassigned to the BMVg; this time as the successor to Lieutenant General Markus Laubenthal in the role of department head of the armed forces leadership department .

Calls

  • 2006: Chief of Staff PRT Kunduz , ISAF
  • 2009/2010: Commander PRT Kunduz, ISAF

Awards (selection)

Web links

Commons : Kai Rohrschneider  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Vita Commander. In: deutschesheer.de. Retrieved February 21, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Lippische Landes-Zeitung: Panzer Brigade has a new commander . In: Augustdorf . ( lz.de [accessed on January 1, 2017]).
  3. ↑ LIPPE aktuell: General at the top - LIPPE aktuell - the news and advertising paper for the Lippe region. In: www.lippe-aktuell.de. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
  4. Jump up ↑ 21st Panzer Brigade under new command. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Astrid Sewing: General Rohrschneider leaves Augustdorf and looks back in an interview . In: Augustdorf . ( lz.de [accessed on January 1, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - January 2017. Accessed January 1, 2017 .
  7. ↑ New challenge, new boss. In: http://www.kommando.streitkraeftebasis.de . PIZ Armed Forces Base, September 22, 2018, accessed September 25, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Upper Palatinate Media - The New Day: The German soldiers in Afghanistan feel abandoned and misunderstood by their homeland: Combat at altitude 431 near Kunduz . In: onetz.de . ( onetz.de [accessed on January 1, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Afghanistan mission: Bundeswehr commander calls for more troops - WELT. In: THE WORLD. Retrieved January 1, 2017 .
  10. ^ Vita commander. In: www.deutschesheer.de. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rohrschneider, Kai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rohrschneider, Kai Roland (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH March 4th 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum