Dieter Schuster (General)

Dieter Schuster (born March 7, 1946 in Nuremberg ) is a Brigadier General a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr and was most recently commander of army schools and deputy head of the army office in Cologne .

Military career

Training and first uses

In 1966, after graduating from high school, Dieter Schuster joined the Army Air Defense Force as an officer candidate in the service of the German Armed Forces at Air Defense Battalion 5 in Lorch am Rhein . After completing his officer training, he was made a lieutenant in 1969.

As an officer, he went through various assignments with the Air Defense Battalion 12 in Hardheim , first as a platoon leader officer , later as a reconnaissance officer and finally as an S2 / S1 officer. In 1974, Schuster began studying educational science and Christian social science at the Julius Maximilian University of Würzburg . After completion of academic training, he returned as a graduate teacher in 1978 back to Hardheim, where he was reclassified in the meantime for air defense regiment 12, battery commander of a Cheetah - battery .

General staff training and service as a staff officer

From 1981 to 1983, Schuster completed the Army General Staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . During the course he wrote a scientific paper on the subject of "Political Protest in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1961 to 1981 and its effects on social change". After this course he stayed in Hamburg and became a speaker at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg . In 1983/84 he was used there in the military part ("Military Fellow").

In 1985, Schuster was transferred again and took over the post of G3 staff officer of the Homeland Security Brigade 54 in Trier . Two years later he received his first troop command in Langenhagen when he became commander of the air defense regiment 1. Following this assignment, he was transferred to the Federal Chancellery in Bonn in 1989 . From 1991 to 1992 he served as a G3 staff officer and deputy chief of the staff of the military area command in Hanover .

In 1992, Schuster was reassigned to the Federal Chancellery , where he was head of Group 22 ("Federal Ministry of Defense; Federal Security Council") in the Foreign and Security Policy Department.

General uses

In 1995 he moved to NATO in Brussels , where he was Chief of Staff and Deputy of the German Military Representative (DMV) in the NATO Military Committee and Military Committee of the WEU , Lieutenant General Klaus Wiesmann . With the start of this employment he was appointed Brigadier General.

In January 1998 he returned to Germany and became Deputy Chief of Staff and Commander Rear Support Command with the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) at JHQ Rheindahlen in Mönchengladbach (responsible for relocating the ARRC headquarters). During this time he completed an assignment abroad as part of the NATO-led Kosovo war .

On October 1, 2000, he took over the position of General of the Army Air Defense and took over command of the Army Air Defense School in Rendsburg from Brigadier General Udo Beitzel . In March 2005 he was released from office and command by the commander of the army schools and deputy chief of the Army Office, Brigadier General Ulrich Keppler , and took over this post himself a few days later.

As part of the transformation of the Bundeswehr, Schuster put the Army Air Defense School, which he himself commanded for four years, out of service and the successor organization, the Training Center for the Army Air Defense Force. At the end of March 2008, Dieter Schuster retired after almost 42 years of service and 13 years as Brigadier General.

Others

Born in Middle Franconia, he is married, has an adult daughter and lives in the Rhineland.

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• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and Defense Industry 2007/2008, Bernard & Graefe publishing house, December 2007, ISBN 3763762760

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Susanne Bund (Red.): 40 Years of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, 1971–2011. Research, advice, teaching . IFSH, Hamburg 2011, p. 17.
2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military positions. BMVg press and information staff, March 4, 2008, archived from the original on June 15, 2008 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .