Achim Wohlgethan

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Achim Wohlgethan (* 1966 in Wolfsburg ) is a former soldier in the German Bundeswehr and the author of several books.

Life

After graduating from high school , he did his basic military service with the Panzer Grenadier Troops. He then completed civilian training as a helicopter pilot and returned to the Bundeswehr in 1995 as a regular soldier . He served in the paratrooper battalion 314 in Oldenburg . In 2002 and 2003 he was stationed for six months in Afghanistan (2002 in Kabul , 2003 in Kunduz ) as a staff sergeant as part of the German participation in the ISAF mission .

Together with his co-author Dirk Schulze , a former Bundeswehr press officer , he processed the impressions he had gained during the first mission in Afghanistan into a documentary report that was published in January 2008 under the title Kabul End Station . The Bundeswehr rejected the criticism he published there that there had been operations outside of the mandate area. In their statement it was said that a simple staff sergeant often does not have the necessary overview of all matters. He currently lives in Wolfsburg as a freelance writer and security advisor.

Works

  • Terminal in Kabul. As a German soldier in Afghanistan - an inside report. Econ Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-430-20043-1
  • Operation Kunduz. My second assignment in Afghanistan. Econ Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-430-20073-8
  • Black Book Bundeswehr: Overstretched, Demoralized and Left in the Lurch C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Bielefeld 2010, ISBN 978-3570100622

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Kabul terminus. As a German soldier in Afghanistan - an inside report. Econ Verlag, Berlin 2008
  2. ↑ Frank Jungbluth, Achim: book on bestseller list above http://www.newsclick.de/index.jsp/menuid/2165/artid/8016483
  3. ↑ "The suffering mocked any description", interview with Achim Wohlgethan on stern.de, http://www.stern.de/politik/panorama/607427.html?q=wohlgethan
personal data
SURNAME Well done, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Wolfsburg