Carsten Jacobson

Carsten Jacobson in Afghanistan, 2012

Carsten Jacobson (born June 22, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a retired German lieutenant general . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . In his last post he was Deputy Inspector of the Army and Commander of the Army Command from July 16, 2015 to August 30, 2018 .

Military career

Training and first uses

Jacobson joined the German Army in 1974 with the 123rd Panzer Battalion in Kümmersbruck , where he was trained as a tank officer. In 1976 he was promoted to lieutenant and in 1979 to first lieutenant . From 1976 to 1986 he was employed as an armored platoon leader and troop telecommunications officer in tank battalions 174 in Hamburg and 203 in Hemer, and from 1982, promoted to captain in the same year , as a company commander in tank battalion 333 in Celle .

Service as a staff officer

From 1986 to 1988 Jacobson completed the general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg , which he graduated as the best in the course. For this he received the General Heusinger Prize . In 1989 he was promoted to major . From 1989 to 1990 he served as an operations officer ( G3 ) in the staff of the I. Corps in Münster under the command of Lieutenant General Jörn Söder . It followed from 1990 to 1992 a course at Staff College in Camberley , UK , after which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel .

Back in Germany, Jacobson took over the post of operations officer (G3) on the staff of Panzerbrigade 36 in Bad Mergentheim from 1992 to 1993 under the command of Colonel Gert Gudera . After this troop command he was transferred to the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense and served from 1993 to 1995 as a staff officer with the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , first under Lieutenant General Jürgen Schnell and finally under Vice Admiral Hans Frank .

From 1995 to 1997 he again took over a troop command as commander of tank battalion 33 in Neustadt am Rübenberge . From 1997 to 1998 Jacobson completed a foreign assignment within the framework of SFOR , where he served as a military assistant to the Chief of Staff of SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Back in Germany, he took over the post of Head of Operations (G3) in the staff of the II Corps in Ulm under the command of Lieutenant General Götz Gliemeroth . In this position he was promoted to colonel in 1999 . In 2001 Jacobson was finally transferred to Washington, DC , where he served as an army attaché at the German embassy until 2005 .

Service in the rank of general

After returning from the United States , Jacobson took command of Panzerlehrbrigade 9 in Munster on February 25, 2005 and led it until 2007, when he was appointed Brigadier General in 2006 . On July 18, 2007, he handed over command to Colonel Wilhelm Grün and was then transferred to Mönchengladbach , where he was the longest-serving German officer and Commander Rear Support Command at the headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) under British Lieutenant-General Richard until 2009 Shirreff served.

On August 14, 2009 Jacobson succeeded Manfred Hofmann as Chief of Staff of the Army Command in Koblenz and served under Lieutenant General Carl-Hubertus von Butler . From July 2011 to June 2012 he was the ISAF spokesman in Afghanistan. After his return to Germany, he was division commander of the 1st Panzer Division until May 28, 2014 . He then returned to Afghanistan again to take on the post of deputy commander of ISAF. Associated with this was the promotion to lieutenant general.

He was then deputy commander of the Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan from January 1 to July 2015 . After this foreign assignment , Jacobson became the successor of Lieutenant General Jörg Vollmer on July 16, 2015, Deputy Inspector of the Army and Commander of the Army Command in Strausberg . On August 30, 2018, he handed over this post to Lieutenant General Johann Langenegger and retired after 44 years of service.

Awards

• Bronze Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr (1983)
• Silver Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr (1989)
• Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr (1994)
• Mission medal of the Bundeswehr SFOR (1998)
• NATO medal for use in the former Yugoslavia (1998)
• Legion of Merit (2005)
• Mission medal of the Bundeswehr ISAF (2012)
• NATO Medal ISAF (2012)
• Mission medal of the Bundeswehr Resolute Support (2015)
• NATO medal Afghanistan (2015)
• Ereteken van Verdienste Goud ( Netherlands 2018)

Private

Jacobson has been married to Sally Jane, b. McBride. The couple has two sons. Carsten Jacobson is a member of the German-British officers' association.

literature

• Mönch Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (Ed.) 2009: Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 2009/2010. Bonn.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Deputy Commander: Lieutenant General Carsten Jacobson ( Memento of the original from July 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Transfer of command: General Kasdorf is adopted
3. ↑ Johann Langenegger is chief of the field army. In: Hannoversche Zeitung. August 30, 2018, accessed August 30, 2018 . 
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