Dag Baehr

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Dag Knut Baehr (born August 30, 1965 in Koblenz ) is a German brigadier general in the army of the Bundeswehr . Since October 1, 2018, he has been Deputy Commander and Commander of the EloKa Troop in the Strategic Reconnaissance Command in Grafschaft .

Life

Military career

Training and first uses

1985 joined Baehr as officer cadets of Gebirgsjägertruppe the mountain infantry battalion 231 in Bad Reichenhall in the Bundeswehr one. From 1987 to 1989 he was a platoon leader of a mountain fighter train before he studied political and social sciences and philosophy from 1989 to 1992 at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich . After another assignment as a platoon leader, Baehr completed his training as an army mountain guide from 1993 to 1994 and then took over the management of a mountain troop company after an interim assignment as a platoon leader of a high mountain range . From 1996 to 1999, after being selected and trained as a commando soldier, Baehr served as a command officer and platoon leader of a command platoon in the special forces command .

Service as a staff officer

From 1999 to 2001, Baehr completed the National General and Admiralty Staff Course (LGAN) at the Management Academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and was promoted to major during the course . After serving as an operations staff officer (G3) in the Special Operations Division in Regensburg from 2001 to 2003 and being promoted to lieutenant colonel , Baehr moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense in 2003 , where he was appointed to the command staff of the armed forces as a consultant for operations management and the use of special forces . 2004 Baehr to Calw displaced and took over command of the forces of the Special Forces Command (KSK), after which he joined in 2007 as Branch Head, Special Operations Branch in the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) to Mons in Belgium until he 2008 Adjutant of the inspector of the army under Hans-Otto Budde became.

In 2009 Baehr was promoted to Colonel Head of Department G5 Plans & Policy in the Allied Land Component Command in Heidelberg , which was followed in 2010 by a renewed assignment in the Federal Ministry of Defense as head of division in the field of land operations / Afghanistan in the operational command staff. As head of the Afghanistan operational team, Baehr was responsible for the ministerial management of the Bundeswehr's engagement in Afghanistan. 2012 changed Baehr then as a liaison officer with the German President to the Federal President to Berlin , where he worked for the German President Christian Wulff and Joachim Gauck worked.

Service as a general

In March 2013, Baehr took over command of the special forces command from Brigadier General Heinz Feldmann . In August 2013 he was promoted to Brigadier General by Federal Minister Thomas de Maizière . Baehr is the first commander of the Special Forces Command to have completed training as a commando soldier. He has participated in foreign missions of the Bundeswehr since the late 1990s . On June 23, 2017, he was replaced by Alexander Sollfrank as commander of the special forces command . Baehr then completed a course at the Royal College of Defense Studies in London. On October 1, 2018, Baehr succeeded Peter Richert as Deputy Commander in the Strategic Reconnaissance Command in Grafschaft. As commander of the electronic warfare troop he is responsible for electronic warfare battalions 911, 912, 931 and 932 , the evaluation center electronic warfare as well as the central investigative body of the Bundeswehr Technical reconnaissance responsible.

Awards

Baehr is the bearer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic . In addition, he was u. a. awarded the Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr .

Baehr is entitled to carry the Presidential Unit Citation awarded to President George W. Bush on December 7, 2004 for those operating in Afghanistan between October 2001 and March 2002 and including a. Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force-SOUTH / Task Force K-Bar, consisting of members of the Special Forces Command, for "extraordinary courage , ingenuity and aggressive fighting spirit in combat against a well-equipped, well-trained and insidious terrorist enemy".

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - October 2018. In: Organizational area personnel of the Bundeswehr . October 12, 2018, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Dag Baehr commands KSK , Schwarzwälder Bote from March 22, 2013.
  3. ↑ KSK boss promoted to general , Schwarzwälder Bote of August 27, 2013.
  4. ↑ http://www.stuttgarter-nachrichten.de/inhalt.sollfrank-loest-baehr-beim-ksk-ab-neuer-chef-fuer-elite-truppe.0ab33d25-5307-4f60-9f97-664c256de8ab.html >
  5. ↑ http://strategie-technik.blogspot.de/2017/06/kommandeurwechsel-beim-kommando-bg.html
  6. ↑ Baehr Sig. Dag , awards database of the President of the Italian Republic .
personal data
SURNAME Baehr, Dag
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Baehr, Dag Knut (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Brigadier General of the Army of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Koblenz