Edgar Trost

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Edgar Ludwig Trost (born July 30, 1940 in Munich ) is a retired German Lieutenant General . D. the Bundeswehr and historian . Most recently he was Deputy Inspector of the Army .

Military background

Consolation was u. a. Trained as an officer at the Army Officer School III in Munich.

The Colonel i. G. was Chief of Staff of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division in Regensburg from 1982 to 1984 . Afterwards he was head of division in the personnel department at the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn. From 1986 to 1988 he was colonel in command of the 36th Panzer Brigade in Bad Mergentheim. After that, the Brigadier General was head of subdivision P III (Army) in the BMVg. From 1990 to 1993 the major general was deputy head of the personnel department at the BMVg. From 1993 to 1996 he was Commanding General of the II. (German-American) Corps in Ulm and from 1997 to 2000 under Lieutenant General Helmut Willmann he was Deputy Inspector of the Army and Commissioner for Reservist Affairs. As Lieutenant General he stepped out of service .

During his tenure, he campaigned for the Rommel barracks in Dornstadt near Ulm to be retained.

Clausewitz Society

From 2002 to 2009 he was the successor of Brigadier General a. D. Georg Bautzmann Head of the Bavarian Regional District of the Clausewitz Society . He was followed by Brigadier General a. D. Robert Gareißen . In 2006, Trost received the Golden Badge of Honor of the Clausewitz Society for his services to the management of the regional district.

For several years he co-moderated the one initiated by the Bundestag member Hildebrecht Braun (FDP) and through the Thomas Dehler Foundation , the Nürnberger Zeitung , the German Armed Forces Association , the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces , the Clausewitz Society, the German Atlantic Society and the Society for Defense and Security Policy in cooperation with the German Armed Forces and Economy Working Group in Nuremberg .

History studies

Trost studied history after his service and completed his studies in 2006 at the Institute for Bavarian History in Munich with a magister artium . The work of Maximilian I of Bavaria and Tilly. The relationship between politics and the military in the Thirty Years War was looked after by Alois Schmid . During this time he became a member of the Catholic student association KDStV Aenania Munich .

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Friends of the Bavarian Army Museum eV

Fonts (selection)

  • Problems of personnel selection . In: Dieter Farwick (ed.): One state - one army. From the NVA to the Bundeswehr . Report-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1992, ISBN 3-9802828-2-1 , p. 170 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Klaus Reinhardt: KFOR. Armed Forces for Peace. Diary entries as a German commander in Kosovo. Frankfurt am Main 2002, p. 440.
  2. ↑ Panzerbrigade 36, Introduction, BArch BH 9-36.
  3. ↑ Ulrich vom Hagen: Homo Militaris. Perspectives of a critical military sociology (= social theory ). Transcript, Bielefeld 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1937-9 , p. 184.
  4. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Published by the Clausewitz-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 271
  5. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 139.
  6. ^ Gisela Bock : German interests in foreign and security policy . on: freiheit.org, July 31, 2006.
  7. ^ Gisela Bock : Nuremberg Security Conference 2008 . on: freiheit.org, July 2, 2008.
  8. ^ Directory of the graduates at the Institute for Bavarian History since the founding of the GML , gml.userweb.mwn.de, accessed on November 4, 2015.
  9. ↑ Kuratorium , freundeskreis-armeemuseum.de, accessed on November 3, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Consolation, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Trost, Edgar Ludwig (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH July 30, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich