Dieter Warnecke

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Dieter Ernst Warnecke (born August 5, 1956 in Sehnde ; † October 16, 2019 ) was a lieutenant general of the Army a. D. the Bundeswehr . His last assignment was from October 2015 to September 2018 as Head of Strategy and Operations at the Federal Ministry of Defense .

Military career

In 1976 Warnecke joined the German Armed Forces as a conscript and served with the 11th field artillery battalion in Hanover . Until 1977 he served - meanwhile a temporary soldier - with the repair battalion 720 in Hanover and with the transport battalion 170 in Rheine . In 1978 he graduated from the Technical Troop II School in Bremen as an officer candidate for the supply troops and was then transferred to the Federal Armed Forces University in Hamburg , where he studied economics from 1978 to 1982 and graduated with a degree in business administration. From 1982 to 1984 he was deployed in Giessen as a platoon leader in basic training with the supply training company 14 / III. For the next two years Warnecke was commanded to Wetzlar and there, as platoon leader, led a material handling train in the 2nd Company of Supply Battalion 5. From 1986 he took over the 7th Company of the Battalion as Company Commander and led it until 1988.

He was then transferred again to the Technical Troop II School in Bremen, where he was employed as a lecture hall director for officer candidates until 1990. From 1990 to 1992 Warnecke completed the 33rd general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and was then transferred to Münster , where he served in General Staff Department 4 (G4) and as deputy head of the logistics department in the 1st Corps until 1994 . Warnecke was then transferred to Oldenburg and served there until 1996 as an operations officer (G3) and chief of staff at Airborne Brigade 31 under the command of Bernd Müller . From 1996 to 1998 he took over a troop command again, this time the 11th Transport Battalion in Dörverden .

In 1998, Warnecke was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served as a consultant and planning officer in the command center of the German armed forces until 2000. Then he was employed as a staff officer and personal assistant to the chief of staff in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS), Egon Ramms , until 2002 . From 2002 to 2003 Warnecke took on the position of Head of Department for Personnel, Controlling and Information Management in the Armed Forces Command. He was then transferred to Regensburg , where he served as Chief of Staff for Rainer Glatz in the Special Operations Division until 2004 . In 2005 Warnecke completed a course at the seminar for security policy at the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin . He then took over command of Airborne Brigade 31 in Oldenburg and led it until 2008. During this time, he was also deployed abroad . In Afghanistan he was with his brigade as part of the ISAF from August 1, 2007 to January 10, 2008 German contingent leader and commander of the Regional Command North in Mazar-e Sharif . During this time he was in command of Operation Harekate Yolo .

After his return, he handed over command of the brigade to Frank Leidenberger on June 1, 2008 and was transferred to the Bonn Ministry of Defense, where he took over the post of military deputy to the head of the newly created operational command , Erhard Bühler . On September 27, 2011 he became Chief of Staff of the 1st German-Dutch Corps . After about a year he gave up this post and was brought to his current use. From October 1, 2012, Warnecke was head of the deployment department in the Armed Forces Command in Bonn . Another assignment abroad took place during this time. In 2013, he was Deputy Commander of the ISAF Joint Command in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan .

From October 2015 to September 2018, Warnecke was Head of the Strategy and Operations Department in the Federal Ministry of Defense, before handing this position over to Major General Bernd Schütt and retiring after 44 years of service.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petersberg talks / mourning for former Lieutenant General Dieter Warnecke. German Armed Forces Association, October 19, 2019, accessed on October 19, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (PDF) BMVg Press and Information Office, June 20, 2008, accessed on April 4, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Lieutenant General Dieter Warnecke honored with a tattoo. In: https://www.bmvg.de . Press and Information Office BMVg, September 25, 2018, accessed on September 25, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Warnecke, Dieter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Warnecke, Dieter Ernst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, lieutenant general
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Sighted
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 2019