Bernd Müller (General)

Bernd Müller (left) with other generals during exercise Brightstar 01/02 (2001)

Bernd Hans Richard Müller (* 1944 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a retired brigadier general of the army . He works as a historian in Oldenburg (Oldenburg) .

Life

Bernd Müller attended the humanistic grammar school in Freiburg and graduated in 1963 with the Abitur. He then joined the Bundeswehr in service with the Panzergrenadierbataillon 242 in Füssen and completed the officer training course at the Army Officer School III in Munich from 1965 to 1966 . He was employed as a platoon leader in the training company, the anti-tank mortar platoon and the telecommunications platoon in the training battalion of Army Officer School II in Hamburg . From 1971 to 1975 he was chief of a combat company of this battalion and was promoted to captain .

1975-1977 he was on the Staff College in Hamburg staff officer formed, and then as a staff officer for logistics in the airborne brigade 27 in Lippstadt used. 1979–1982 he was employed as Officer Generalstaff Intelligence in the staff of the Army Group North / Central Europe. From 1982 to 1984 he led the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 173 in Hamburg-Rahlstedt as a lieutenant colonel and then headed a lecture hall in the general staff training of the army at the leadership academy in Hamburg. 1986–1987 he worked as a security policy advisor at the Federal Chancellery in Bonn , and from 1987–1990, as a colonel , he was in charge of preparations for the establishment of the Federal Security Academy in Bad Godesberg . For three years he was the army attaché at the German embassy in Washington / DC, USA , and was then briefly appointed head of the central department in the command staff of the army in Bonn. Brigadier General Müller led Airborne Brigade 31 in Oldenburg for five years ; During this time he served as commander of the Brigade Center in Bosnia for six months in 1997 . In 1999 he served as the Deputy Commander of the Special Operations Division in Regensburg , and from December 2001 to March 2002 he was head of the German Liaison Staff to the US Central Command headquarters in Tampa / Florida . He was retired on March 31, 2003.

Müller then took up regular studies in history and political science at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg , graduating in 2008 with a master's degree . In 2011 he was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD in history. He works as a historian in Oldenburg and is a lecturer at the Institute for History at the University of Oldenburg (Eastern Europe, Oldenburg and Holstein regional history).

Bernd Müller is married and has two daughters.

Publications

• The foreign policy of Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Holstein-Oldenburg . Foreign policy action, arguments and notions of order by an inferior prince from the Old Reich to the German Confederation 1785–1829 , Isensee-Verlag Oldenburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-89995-784-6 .
• Peter Friedrich Ludwig and his Russian house , in: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde, Eutin 2012 (46), pp. 74–98.
• Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Holstein-Oldenburg and his Russian house , Verlag Lumpeter & Lasel Eutin 2013, ISSN 1866-2730.
• Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Holstein-Oldenburg (1755-1829): The foreign policy instructions, memoranda and wills. Annotated edition, Isensee-Verlag Oldenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7308-1069-9 .
• The early years of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Holstein-Oldenburg 1755-1785 , Isensee-Verlag Oldenburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7308-1281-5 .
• Oldenburg and the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss 1803. The disputes between Russia, France and Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig von Holstein-Oldenburg over the possessions of the House of Holstein-Gottorp younger line , in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 2016, Isensee-Verlag Oldenburg, ISBN 978-3-7308- 1302-7 .
• "Hereditary Prince Paul Friedrich August of Holstein-Oldenburg in Russia 1811-1816. Exile and abolition of serfdom in Estonia", Isensee-Verlag Oldenburg 2017, ISBN 978-3-7308-1343-0 .
• "Duke and Prince-Bishop Friedrich August von Holstein-Gottorp (1711–1785). A biographical study" (Eutin Research Volume 14), Eutin 2018. ISBN 978-3-939643-20-3 .
• "International connections between the Polish January uprising and the German-Danish conflict in 1863/64", in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History, Vol. 143/144 (2018/2019), pp. 49-63. ISBN 978-3-7868-5603-0 .
• "Oldenburg and the passage of the Braunschweiger Black Corps through the Duchy of Oldenburg 1809", in: Oldenburger Jahrbuch 119 (2019), pp. 31-46. ISBN 978-3-7308-1573-1 .

Trivia

• Because of his brisk demeanor, Müller was nicknamed Congo-Müller , based on the mercenary Siegfried Müller .

literature

• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 2001, Bernhard & Graefe Verlag Bonn 2001.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Fröhlingsdorf et al: The overwhelmed army , in: Der Spiegel 11/2002, p. 174
2. ↑ Susanne Koelbl: War under palm trees , in: Der Spiegel 13/2002, p. 176