Carl-Hubertus von Butler

Carl-Hubertus von Butler

Carl-Hubertus Sylvester von Butler (born December 31, 1950 in Coburg ) is a lieutenant general a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . In his last employment prior to his retirement, he was in command of the Army Command from March 2009 to March 2012 .

Military career

Training and first uses

After completing his basic military service, Butler began his career in the Bundeswehr in 1971 with training as a reserve officer in the Jäger and Panzergrenadier troops at Jäger Battalion 101 in Ebern . In 1974 he was made a professional soldier . From 1975 he completed a degree in sociology and history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, which he graduated in 1980 with a diploma in sociology. After completing his studies, Butler was employed as a captain and company commander in the 303 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Ellwangen from 1981 to 1983 .

Service as a staff officer

From 1983 to 1985 he completed the general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and, after being promoted to major, took over the post of head of the communications department ( G2 ) on the staff of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division in Regensburg under the command of Major General Kurt Barthel until 1987 . In 1987 he was transferred to the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense , where he served as a consultant in the command staff of the Army (FüH) until 1989 .

In the turn of time Butler took over from 1989 to 1991, the command of the Parachute Battalion 251 in Calw and was during this time in Halle an der Saale six months Chief of Staff of the 11th Motorized Rifle Division of the National People's Army of the GDR , which dissolved at that time or . was partially integrated into the Bundeswehr. After this assignment, Butler went back to Bonn, where he served as a consultant for the conception of the army and the armed forces in the command staff of the army until 1994.

By merging the staffs of the 1st Airborne Division and the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division , the Air Mobile Forces Command (KLK) was created in 1994 , which took over the brigades of the 1st Airborne Division, but continued to carry the name of the 4th Division. From 1994 to 1996 Butler was employed in this new division as a department head for operational and exercise planning (G3) (KLK / 4th Div) in Regensburg under the command of Major General Bernd Albert . He stayed in the division until 1998 and took over the post of Chief of Staff in 1996, now under the command of Major General Volker Löw . During this time he was from August 1996 to February 1997, under the IFOR in foreign deployment in Croatia , where he served as chief of staff of the German contingent. After this assignment in Croatia, an education at the National War College in Washington, DC followed from 1998 to 1999 .

Service in the rank of general

Back in Germany, Butler took command of Luftlandebrigade 31 in Oldenburg as a colonel from 1999 to 2002 and was also appointed brigadier general during this deployment.

After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 and the subsequent deployment in Afghanistan , Butler, as brigadier general in January 2002 within the framework of the ISAF , commanded an advance command, provided by a German-Dutch-Danish-Austrian task force, which on March 19, 2002 became the Kabul Multinational Brigade (KMNB) was reclassified. Butler in Kabul headed this brigade until June 17, 2002.

Back in Germany, he was appointed head of the management, conception, and operational principles department in the command staff of the Army (FüH III) under the direction of Major General Hans-Otto Budde .

After the early dismissal of Brigadier General Reinhard Günzel in 2003, Butler took over the Special Forces Command in Calw and led this until 2005. From 2005 to 2009, Butler finally commanded the Air Mobile Operations Division (DLO) in Veitshöchheim and was also appointed to this position Appointed major general. On February 12, 2009, he handed over the division to Brigadier General Erhard Drews .

In 2005 Butler was awarded the Commander's Cross of the Ordre national du Mérite for his services to Franco-German cooperation .

On March 16, 2009, Butler took over the Army Command in Koblenz . In this position he was made lieutenant general on April 1, 2009 and retired three years later, on March 8, 2012, with a major tattoo .

Private

Butler comes from the noble family Buttlar (also Butler), whose soldier tradition dates back to 1170 . His father Ruprecht and his uncle Peter both served in the armed forces and the armed forces , the father in the end in the rank of major general , the uncle as lieutenant general . His younger brother, Ruprecht Horst von Butler , is also a general in the Bundeswehr. After the Second World War , the family fled from the Russian armed forces to their farm in Heldritt near Coburg. The family property in the Soviet occupation zone was lost. Butler is married with one daughter and three sons.

literature

• Joachim Käppner : The family of the generals. A German story. Berlin-Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8270-0708-7 .

Web links

• Joachim Käppner: Blue-eyed in the war , portrait in the Süddeutsche Zeitung on September 11, 2011, accessed on September 13, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ^ Announcement about the awarding of the medal in: Aktuell - Zeitung für die Bundeswehr, 40th year, No. 29, p. 12 of July 25, 2005