Bruno Kasdorf

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Bruno Kasdorf

Bruno Kasdorf (born October 25, 1952 in Heidmühle ) is a lieutenant general ret. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . In his last assignment he was Army Inspector from September 2012 to July 2015 .

Military career

Training and first uses

On July 1, 1973, Kasdorf entered the service of the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate and was trained as an officer with the armored infantry troops until 1975 . From 1975 to 1978 he studied economics and organizational science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and graduated with a degree in business administration. Kasdorf then served as platoon leader until 1985 and later as company commander in the armored infantry battalions 311 and 313 in Varel . After this deployment of the troops, he was again transferred to Hamburg and from 1985 to 1987 he completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr there .

Following this training he was transferred to Ulm and served there until 1989 as a staff officer in the operations department ( G3 ) of the staff of the II Corps . He was then transferred to the United States and completed there from 1989 to 1990 in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas , the general staff course at the Command and General Staff College of the US Army . Back in Germany, Kasdorf was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served as a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS IV 1) until 1992 . From 1992 to 1994 he took over a troop command again, this time as a lieutenant colonel in the 323 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Schwanewede . From 1994 to 1997 Kasdorf served again in Bonn, first in the planning staff of Federal Minister Volker Rühe ( CDU ) and then as division manager for operational planning in the command center of the Bundeswehr. He then served from 1997 to 1999 in the staff of the IV Corps in Potsdam as a department head for operations (G3) under the command of Joachim Spiering and Hans-Peter von Kirchbach .

From 1999 to 2000, Kasdorf completed a course at the US Army War College in Carlisle , Pennsylvania , again in the United States . Back in Germany, the then inspector of the army, Helmut Willmann , brought him to the command staff of the army from 2000 to 2001 , where Kasdorf acted as head of the working group “Further Development of the Army”. After these staff assignments, Kasdorf took over a troop command from 2001 to 2003. For this, the colonel was transferred to Amberg and took command of the 12 tank brigade there . In this function, he completed an assignment abroad in Bosnia and Herzegovina from November 2002 to June 2003 , where he served as Chief of Staff of SFOR under the command of American William E. Ward .

Service in the rank of general

Bundeswehr Award - Brass Honor Medal awarded by the Deputy Inspector of the Army - Lieutenant General Bruno Kasdorf - front page

After Kasdorf returned from the Balkans, he served as Brigadier General from October 1, 2003 to April 7, 2006 as Chief of Staff of the Army Command under Axel Bürgener and Wolfgang Otto . In May 2006 he finally took over command of the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division as major general in Neubrandenburg and led it as the penultimate commander until December 14, 2006. After this assignment he was chief of staff of the ISAF from January 1 to December 1, 2007 in Afghanistan under the command of US General Dan K. McNeill . He gave this post to Hans-Lothar Domröse and took over the post of Deputy Commander in the Army Command on January 1, 2008 under Wolfgang Otto and Carl-Hubertus von Butler .

After the Federal Minister of Defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , had designated Lieutenant General Volker Wieker as Inspector General of the Bundeswehr in December 2009 , it was announced on January 6, 2010 that Kasdorf - appointed Lieutenant General - would take over Wieker's post in Kabul and thus again as chief of the staff at ISAF headquarters in Afghanistan . He took over this task in February 2010 and initially served under Stanley A. McChrystal , after his replacement David H. Petraeus . On June 22, 2010 Kasdorf handed over the post of Deputy Commander of the Army Command to Reinhard Kammerer and on August 11, 2010 the Frenchman Gilles Fugier succeeded him as Chief of Staff of the ISAF.

Back in Germany on September 16, 2010, Kasdorf succeeded Günter Weiler in the post of Deputy Inspector of the Army . On September 11, 2012, as part of the assembly roll call of the Army Command in Strausberg, he followed Werner Freers as inspector of the Army.

Kasdorf honored merited soldiers with a brass medal of honor. The back is decorated with three stars and his engraved signature. On July 16, 2015, Kasdorf was retired with a big tattoo in Dresden , his successor was Lieutenant General Jörg Vollmer .

Private

Kasdorf is married and has four children. He speaks English and Spanish.

Honors

Web links

Commons : Bruno Kasdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Berlin April 3, 2006, p. 2 ( PDF ( Memento from May 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
  2. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Press release. Berlin December 6, 2006 ( PDF ( memento of October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed April 4, 2016]).
  3. ↑ Kasdorf is the new Chief of Staff in Kabul (bundeswehr.de from January 6, 2010)
  4. ↑ Griephan letters of February 12, 2010.
  5. ↑ Transfer of command: General Kasdorf is adopted
personal data
SURNAME Kasdorf, Bruno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidmühle