Bernd Klug (General)

Bernd Klug (born March 31, 1934 in Schmiegrode , Silesia ) is a lieutenant general out of service in the army of the Bundeswehr . His last assignment was the commanding general of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland LANDJUT ( Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland ).

Life

After graduating from high school in 1953 in Freiburg im Breisgau, Klug joined the Border Guard Command as an officer candidate and was promoted to lieutenant in the Federal Border Guard (BGS) there in March 1956 . In July 1956 he switched to the German Armed Forces and was an Army officer in the Army Air Defense Force . After service with the Air Defense Battalion 4 in Amberg and the Mountain Air Defense Artillery Battalion 8 in Traunstein , he completed his training as a general staff officer from 1965 to 1967 and was promoted to major in 1967 . He was then employed as a G 1 staff officer and as a G 3 staff officer in the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division in Regensburg , before moving to the personnel department of the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn in 1970 as a senior officer for the junior general staff officers .

After Klug became commander of the Mountain Air Defense Artillery Battalion 8 in 1972, he was among the participants in the 46th course at the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome in 1974/75 . After his return he was promoted to colonel in 1975 and took over the post as G 1 staff officer in the II Corps in Ulm , before returning to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn in 1977, where he was head of the department for basic personnel requirements in the army command staff (FüH ) has been. Subsequently, in 1979, he became head of the field of application in the FüH and then on October 1, 1981, successor to Colonel Kurt Barthel as commander of the Mountain Infantry Brigade 23 “Bavaria” in Bad Reichenhall . He remained in this post until September 30, 1983, when he was promoted to Brigadier General . His successor as commander of the Mountain Infantry Brigade 23 was Brigadier General Franz Werner on October 1, 1983 .

Klug himself was then from October 1, 1983 to March 31, 1986 Head of Subdivision P III in the Federal Ministry of Defense, before he succeeded Major General Jörn Söder as commander of the 7th Panzer Division in Unna on April 1, 1984 as Major General . He remained in this post until September 30, 1990 and was then replaced on October 1, 1990 by Major General Helmut Willmann .

Last Klug was promoted on 1 October 1990 to Lieutenant General and took over as successor to the Danish Lieutenant General PB Krogen the post as commanding general of the NATO associated Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland LANDJUT ( Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland ) in Rendsburg . He remained in this post until his retirement on September 31, 1993 and was then replaced by the Danish Lieutenant General G. Grüner . Among other things, he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit for his many years of service.

In his retirement, Klug took part in panel discussions organized by the Diocese of Regensburg on the subject of “Building bridges with Christ”, the motto of the 99th German Catholic Day .

literature

• Clemens Range : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr , ES Mittler, Herford 1990, ISBN 3-8132-0350-6 .
• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 1990/1991 , Verlag Bernhard & Graefe, Bonn 1990, p. 70, ISBN 3-7637-5865-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter E. Kilian : Politics and the military in Germany: the Federal Presidents and Federal Chancellors and their relationship to the military and the Bundeswehr , 2011, p. 153, ISBN 3-9378-8536-6
2. ↑ European Security , Volume 42, Verlag ES Mittler, 1993, p. 593
3. ^ Wehrtechnik , Volume 25, Verlag Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993, p. 3
4. ↑ Panel discussion "Building bridges between church and world" on May 14, 2014 in Spindlhof Castle on the homepage of the Diocese of Regensburg