Andreas Krause (Admiral)

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Andreas Krause (2017)

Andreas Krause (born October 11, 1956 in Lübeck ) is a Vice Admiral of the German Navy in the Bundeswehr and has been an inspector of the Navy since October 28, 2014 .

Military career

Training and first uses

Promotions

Krause joined the Bundeswehr as a member of Crew VII / 76 and was promoted to lieutenant at sea in July 1979 after training as an officer . In 1977 he started studying pedagogy at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , which he completed in 1980 as a qualified pedagogue. This was followed by training as a submarine officer. In January 1982 Krause was promoted to lieutenant at sea . From 1981 to 1986 he served as an officer on watch on board submarines and as a platoon officer in cadet training on the training ship "Deutschland" . In his employment as an officer on watch, he was promoted to lieutenant captain in April 1985 . A year later, in 1986, he took over as commander of the U 22 submarine . From 1989 to 1990 he completed the tactical officer training for sea operations (B course submarine hunting).

Service as a staff officer

From 1990 to 1992, Krause completed the 32nd admiralty staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and was subsequently promoted to corvette captain in April 1992 . He then served until 1993 as an operational planning officer in the submarine flotilla (A31).

From 1993 to 1996 he was employed in various positions in the command staff of the Navy (FüM) and in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS) in the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense . During this time he was promoted to frigate captain in April 1995 and from 1996 to 1999 took over command of the submarine training center (AZU) at the Eckernförde naval base .

After this troop command he was from 1999 to 2001 as head of division in the Joint Headquarters Northeast (JHQ NORTHEAST) of NATO in Karup , Denmark . During this employment he was promoted to sea captain in April 2000 . In 2001 he returned to Germany and Bonn, where he was appointed head of department in the naval command staff until 2003. Krause stayed in the ministry and from 2003 to 2004 took on the post of deputy head of operations management in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS V).

Service as an admiral

Vice Admiral Andreas Krause on board the USS Jason Dunham in Kiel in June 2015

In November 2004, Krause was appointed Flotilla Admiral and took over the post of Head of Department for Concept, Planning and Leadership in the Naval Staff (FüM III). Following these ministerial assignments, he took over on July 1, 2006 as the first commander of the operational flotilla 1 in Kiel . Since September 2006 he was also the commander of the UNIFIL mission on the Lebanese coast with eight floating units of the German Navy and around 1,000 soldiers.

Since April 24, 2007, Krause has also been the director of the newly established " Center of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters" (COE CSW). With the establishment of this agency, the German Navy responded to the changed deployment scenarios, as the focus of maritime operations has shifted from the high seas to the coastal regions.

On October 1, 2008 Krause took over the post of Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff in the Fleet Command in Glücksburg under the command of Vice Admiral Hans-Joachim Stricker . With this post the appointment as rear admiral was connected. After almost a year, on August 27, 2009, Krause took over the management of the operational command staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense , which supports the inspector general in operational matters. From January 1, 2012 to April 2013, he was Deputy Commander of the Allied Maritime Command in Naples , which earned him the promotion to Vice Admiral. From the end of July 2013 to October 28, 2014, Krause was the deputy inspector of the navy in the naval command in Rostock.

Awards

His awards include a .: the Cross of Honor of the German Armed Forces in silver and gold as well as the German Armed Forces Medal in bronze (participation in UN mission UNIFIL). UN Medal of the United Nations (participation UNIFIL), L'Ordre National du Mérite officer (France) , Orden del Mérito Naval Almirante Padilla (Colombia), Forsvarets hederskors ( Norway ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military positions. (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Defense, June 27, 2006, archived from the original ; accessed on January 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Maximilian Köllmann: Pursuing new approaches. (No longer available online.) In: Marine.de. April 25, 2007, archived from the original on January 7, 2008 ; accessed on January 30, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (No longer available online.) BMVg press and information staff, September 15, 2008, archived from the original on October 1, 2009 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (PDF; 29 kB) (No longer available online.) In: www.bmvg.de. BMVg, December 30, 2011, archived from the original on August 19, 2014 ; Retrieved January 3, 2012 .
personal data
SURNAME Krause, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German naval officer, Vice Admiral of the German Navy
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck