Dieter Meyerhoff

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Dieter Meyerhoff (born March 19, 1960 in Soltau ) is a Brigadier General of the Army of the German Armed Forces and Deputy Commander of the 1st Panzer Division .

Military career

Training and first uses

Meyerhoff joined the Bundeswehr in 1979 as a conscript in the 7th Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion in Augustdorf . He switched to the officer career and began the two-year training as an officer in the tank reconnaissance force in the 11th tank reconnaissance training battalion in Munster. From 1981 to 1984 he studied education at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . After completing his studies, he served from 1985 to 1988 as platoon leader in Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 3 in Lüneburg , followed by a position as a company commander of the 5th and then the 4th company in this battalion . He then completed the 35th general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

Service as a staff officer

Between 1994 and 1997, Major Meyerhoff was deputy head of department at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . From 1997 to 1998 he completed the International General Staff Training at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Bracknell ( United Kingdom ). He was then transferred to the command of the 4th German Corps in Potsdam , where he was deployed as a staff officer in divisions G1 and G2. From November 1999 to April 2000 Meyerhoff was a staff officer G3 JIC at the KFOR headquarters on an international assignment. From 2000 to 2002 he was commander of the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 13 in Gotha . During this time he was an adjutant with the commander Task Force Fox from October 2001 to December 2001 in Macedonia on his second assignment abroad. Meyerhoff was then employed as a staff officer, which was followed by a position as head of development at the Army Office in Cologne . He was then transferred again to the Ministry of Defense in 2006, where he was used as the head of the personnel department in the armed forces headquarters . From 2009 to 2014 he served as Chief of Staff in the Armed Forces Office in Bonn. After a brief assignment at the Office for Army Development in Cologne, he was transferred to the 1st German-Dutch Corps.

Service as a general

In September 2014 he became Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Training. Associated with this was the promotion to Brigadier General. He had been Chief of Staff since March 2016 and was its Deputy Commander from January 2019 to March 2019. At the beginning of March 2019 he took over the post of Deputy Commander of the 1st Armored Division from Brigadier General Michael Matz .

Assignments abroad

  • November 1999 to April 2000 Staff Officer G3 JIC at the KFOR headquarters, Kosovo
  • October 2001 to December 2001 Adjutant at the Commander Task Force Fox, Macedonia
  • July 2016 to January 2017 Assistant Chief of Staff (ACOS) J7 Resolute Support Mission , Afghanistan

Awards

Private

Meyerhoff is married and has a son and a daughter.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Nordwest-Zeitung: 1st Panzer Division in Oldenburg: Bundeswehr invested 22 million in Bümmerstede. Retrieved March 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ curriculum Vitae- Brigadier General Dieter Meyerhoff. Retrieved June 27, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyerhoff, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brigadier general
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Soltau