Bernhardt Schlaak

Bernhardt Schlaak (* 27. August 1959 in Hamburg ) is a Major General of the Air Force of the Armed Forces and Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff at Air Force troops command in Cologne - Wahn .

Military career

Training and first uses

Schlaak joined the German Army in the 7th Air Force Training Regiment in Roth in 1980 as an officer candidate . This was followed by officer training at the Air Force officers' school in Fürstenfeldbruck . From 1981 to 1985 he studied economics and organizational science (WOW) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . After completing his degree in business administration , he trained as an anti-aircraft missile officer at the Air Force missile school in El Paso , USA . From 1986 to 1990, Schlaak was then employed at FlaRakBtl 37 in Bremervörde and Cuxhaven . From 1990 to 1993 he was employed as head of the FlaRakGrp 36 squadron in Bremervörde. In the context of the Iraq / Kuwait conflict, Schlaak was deployed in 1991 as the squadron chief of the partial deployment contingent FlaRak HAWK of the NATO mobile intervention force in south-east Turkey.

General staff training and service as a staff officer

This was followed by general staff training at the command academy of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg from 1993 to 1995. Schlaak then became department head A3b in the 4th Air Force Division in Aurich . In 1997 the course European Security Policy followed at the Center for Security Policy in Geneva , in the same year he became a consultant on the staff of German military representatives in the military committee of NATO and WEU and German spokesman in the NATO committee for the standardization of air force matters in Brussels . In 2000, he was transferred to the Air Force Command in the Federal Ministry of Defense as a policy officer and deputy. Head of International Cooperation Air Force NATO, EU and WEU (Fü L III 2) in Bonn . From 2001 to 2004 two assignments followed as an adjutant , first with the Deputy Inspector of the Air Force , then as an Adjutant of the Air Force with the Inspector General . From 2004 to 2006 he was employed as a group leader A 5 II in the air force command in Cologne , and in 2007 as a commodore to take over command of the anti-aircraft missile squadron 1 in Husum . In 2008 he was employed again in the BMVg as Head of Section Fü L III 6 in Bonn.

General usage

On April 4, 2012, he was entrusted with the command of the Air Force officers' school and thus succeeded Klaus Habersetzer as commander. In the same year Bernhardt Schlaak was promoted to Brigadier General. He handed over the command of the school to Brigadier General Michael Traut on September 21, 2016 . From October 2016 to August 2019, Schlaak succeeded Major General Bernhard Fürst as Vice Chairman of the NATO Air and Missile Defense Committee in Brussels, Belgium, where he was also promoted to Major General at the end of 2016. On August 22, 2019, he took over his current post as deputy to the commanding general and chief of staff in the air force command from Major General Lutz Kohlhaus .

Private

Schlaak is married and has two daughters and a son.

Web links

Military vita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Commander. In: Air Force. September 23, 2016. Retrieved September 23, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military positions in the Air Force. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .