Christian Giermann

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Christian Giermann (born November 7, 1936 in Lübeck ) is a German naval officer .

Life

Christian Giermann joined the German Navy in September 1957 as an officer candidate . After training as an officer, he served as an officer on watch and commander on speedboats . As the commander of the S8-KONDOR speedboat , on April 25, 1967, he transferred Konrad Adenauer's coffin from the state ceremony in Cologne Cathedral for burial in Königswinter / Rhöndorf . As part of further training, he took part in the Officer B course in command services from 1967 to 1968. In October 1968 he was transferred to the Naval Command Systems Command and specialized in modern automatic command systems and tactical data exchange systems such as the NATO Link 11 procedure . Between 1969 and 1971 Giermann completed the admiralty staff officer course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. From 1971 to 1974 Giermann returned to the Naval Command Systems Command as head of the Tactics Group.

In 1974 Giermann became the commander of the 2nd Schnellbootgeschwader without having previously worked through a deputy squadron commander (S3 staff officer). During his exceptionally long time as commander up to 1979, he had the task of putting the Albatros class (class 143) into service. With this class, the Navy received completely new types of boats with the integrated AGIS (Automated Combat and Information System for Speed Boats) weapon system , which Giermann helped to develop during his first time at the Naval Command. During his service, Giermann was always an advocate of such new systems and campaigned for their introduction and dissemination.

From 1979 to 1982 Giermann was a sea ​​captain at NATO headquarters in Brussels . From 1982 to 1985 he was head of the operations department of the naval command and from 1985 head of department in the naval command. Promoted to Flotilla Admiral in 1986 , he became head of the Operations Department , which was renamed in 1990 after a reorganization into the Planning, Conceptual Design and Operational Management Department . He served as Chief of Staff III in the Navy Command for nine years until he retired in 1996. From 1997 he worked as an advisor to the Commander of the Armed Forces of the United Arab Emirates .

Giermann is one of three children of the captain and frigate captain Walter Giermann (1892–1976) and his wife Christel geb. Plücker (1905–1989), daughter of Albert Plücker . He was married to Ingrid Schumacher (1938–2009) and has two children.

Awards

Incomplete list

literature

  • Heiko Giermann: Ancestral lines of the Giermann and Plücker families . In: German gender book . Volume 217, A. Starke Verlag, Limburg adL 2004

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ In: Wolfenbütteler Zeitung of April 21, 2017
  2. ↑ untitled : An essay by Giermann on his collaboration on the class 143 weapon system; in: Hans Frank (Hrsg.): The German speed boats in action. 1956 until today . Hamburg [ua] 2007, ISBN 978-3-8132-0880-1 , p. 61 ff.
  3. ↑ Information from the Federal President's Office
personal data
SURNAME Giermann, Christian
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Giermann, Christian Johann (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flotilla admiral
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck