Bernd Heise

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Bernd Heise giving a speech in 2001

Bernd Heise (born January 26, 1943 in Berlin ) is a retired German Vice Admiral .

From October 1, 2000 to January 31, 2004, Heise was the inspector of the armed forces base and from July 1, 2003, he was the deputy inspector general of the Bundeswehr . As the highest person responsible for the armed forces base , he was responsible for the armed forces support command , the armed forces office and numerous other agencies, including the former Central Military Services of the Bundeswehr as well as the Bundeswehr Operations Command and the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD).

biography

Heise began his military career in 1962 with training as a naval officer . First he was employed as a lieutenant at sea in the training of officer candidates for the Navy on the training ship Germany and as a company officer in a (naval) telecommunications battalion. When he was promoted to lieutenant at sea , he began training in logistics and transport in the Navy in 1968 , which initially led to a position as head of inspection at the Technical Naval School in Kiel. This was followed by a deployment as a ship supply officer for the supply ship Offenburg , during which he was promoted to lieutenant captain on October 1, 1970 . This was followed by a job as a company commander in an amphibious transport and handling battalion and training at the US Naval War College ( Naval Staff Course ).

With the promotion to corvette captain in 1975, Heise completed the 17th admiral staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. Staff assignments followed in operational and basic logistics in the fleet command , in the naval command , with promotion to frigate captain on April 1, 1980. From April 1984 Heise was deployed as a group leader in the naval support command, where he was promoted to sea captain on October 1, 1985 has been. In the autumn of 1986 he went to List on Sylt as commander of the naval supply school , after a six-month interim assignment as head of department in the logistics department of the navy on October 1, 1989, for three and a half years.

In 1993, promoted to Flotilla Admiral, he took on the role of Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff in the Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command in Kiel and, after being reclassified to Military District Command I / 6. Panzergrenadierdivision that of the deputy commander and became commander of the military area troops. In July 1995, he returned to the naval management staff in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) as head of the logistics and armaments department , where he succeeded the deputy inspector of the navy and chief of the command staff on April 1, 1997, while being promoted to rear admiral .

With his appointment as Vice Admiral on October 1, 2000, Heise became the first inspector of the armed forces base and was responsible for the development of this new military organizational area of ​​the Bundeswehr. With the merger of his staff with the command staff of the armed forces, Heise became deputy inspector general of the Bundeswehr and inspector of the armed forces base in the summer of 2003. Celebrating his 61st birthday, he joined as scheduled in retirement . Subsequently, from March 2004 he was chairman of the board of the Evangelical Working Group for Soldiers Care .

Bernd Heise is married to Christel Heise and has two children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Heise. In: German Maritime Competence Network. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014 ; accessed on June 22, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Heise, Bernd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION retired German admiral (Navy)
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin