Alfons Mais

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Alfons Mais (born April 24, 1962 in Koblenz ) is a Lieutenant General of the Army of the Bundeswehr and the 21st Army Inspector .

Military career

Training and first uses

Mais joined the Bundeswehr in 1981 and completed his officer candidate training at the Army Aviation School in Bückeburg . From 1982 to 1985 he studied economics and organizational sciences at the Helmut Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg , then he was trained as a helicopter pilot in Bückeburg.

After completing his training and retraining on the Alouette II , he was transferred to Flying Department 301 in Niederstetten .

From 1989 to 1991 he was employed as an adjutant at the head of the Army Office in Cologne .

Mais became a squadron captain in 1991 and took over the army aviation supply squadron in Fassberg . From 1993 he was a squad leader at the same location and was retrained on the Bell UH-1D . From 1994 onwards, he completed the 34th Army General Staff Course at the Bundeswehr Commanding Academy in Hamburg for two years  .

Service as a staff officer

After completing his general staff training, Mais was transferred to the command staff of the armed forces in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . After a brief assignment in Fritzlar with Air Mechanized Brigade 1 , he took over the Flying Division 101 in Faßberg from 2000 to 2002 as its commander . In the years from 2002 to 2011 a teaching position at the management academy followed, participation in the high-quality course at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Berlin, as deputy. Head of the field of military policy at the German Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels, a staff assignment at the Air Mobility Operations division in Veitshöchheim , and finally as head of division at the Federal Ministry of Defense.

Service as a general

In 2011, Mais became commander of Airmobile Brigade 1 and promoted to brigadier general. In 2013 he became commander of the Army Aviation School and thus General of the Army Aviation Force .

In October 2014 he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Army Command. He handed over this post to Brigadier General Alexander Sollfrank on May 18, 2018. On June 16, 2018, Mais succeeded Lieutenant General Johann Langenegger as Chief of Staff of the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan and was promoted to Lieutenant General. At the beginning of April 2019 he handed over this post to Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow .

On May 9, 2019, he took over command of the 1st German-Dutch Corps from Lieutenant General Michiel van der Laan and handed over this post to Lieutenant General Andreas Marlow on February 6, 2020.

On February 13, 2020, Mais was appointed the 21st Army Inspector, succeeding Lieutenant General Jörg Vollmer .

Awards

  • 1991 Bronze Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
  • 1999 SFOR operational medal in bronze
  • 2002 NATO Medal KFOR
  • 2004 Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
  • 2012 ISAF operational medal in bronze
  • 2012 NATO Mission Medal ISAF
  • 2019 Resolute Support Mission bronze medal
  • 2019 NATO Resolute Support Mission Medal
  • 2019 National Memorial Cross for the Peace Mission in Afghanistan (Italy)
  • 2019 Legion of Merit , Degree of Officer (USA)

Private

Alfons Mais is married and has one son.

Web links

Military vita

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Major General Alfons Mais. In: deutschesheer.de. Bundeswehr, accessed on May 29, 2015 .
  2. ↑ General Alfons Mais leaves the Bückeburg site. Schaumburger Zeitung, October 11, 2014, accessed on May 19, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Command Army: New Chief of Staff takes on official business. In: http://www.deutschesheer.de . PIZ German Army, May 18, 2018, accessed on June 20, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Another change of command in the corps Lieutenant General Alfons Mais becomes Army Inspector. Again change of command in the corps. In: https://www.muensterschezeitung.de/ . February 6, 2020, accessed February 10, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Change of leadership in the German Army. In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . PIZ German Army, February 7, 2020, accessed on February 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Mais, Alfons
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General and Inspector of the Army
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz , Germany