Edvardas Mažeikis

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Edvardas Mažeikis, 2011

Edvardas Mažeikis (born November 18, 1961 in Papilė , Akmenė district ) is a former pilot and major general of the Lithuanian Air Force . From 2014 to 2018 he was Director of the NATO Standardization Office .

Life

Edvardas Mažeikis grew up in Papilė in what is now Lithuania (then part of the Soviet Union as the Lithuanian SSR ).

Mažeikis is married - he has two daughters with his wife Auksė. In addition to Lithuanian, he is fluent in English, German and Russian. His hobbies include reading and playing golf, chess and badminton.

Military career

Promotions

soviet armed forces

Lithuanian Armed Forces

After Edvardas Mažeikis had completed his officer training at the Military Academy for Aviation in Chernihiv as a lieutenant in 1983 , he was appointed first lieutenant in 1985 and captain in 1987 . He became a major in 1991 and moved from the Soviet to the newly emerging Lithuanian armed forces in 1992 . Here he was promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1995 . From 1997 to 2000 he was in command of the air base in Šiauliai .

After completing the general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg in 1997, he took over the leadership of the Lithuanian air force in 2000. That same year he was promoted to the rank of colonel . He was in command of the Air Force (apart from a short break in 2002/2003) until 2004. During this time he completed a master's degree in National Security Strategy Resources at the National Defense University in Washington DC in the USA.

In 2004 Mažeikis was promoted to brigadier general. From 2004 to 2008 he worked in Brussels as the representative of his country to NATO and the EU . From 2008 to 2010 he was in command of the General Jonas Zemaitis Military Academy . Subsequently, he worked briefly as chief of staff. From 2011 to 2014 he took over the post of air force commander again and was promoted to major general by President Dalia Grybauskaitė on July 28, 2011 . On July 1, 2014, he became the first director of the NATO Standardization Office (NSO), which emerged from the NATO Standardization Agency . On February 12, 2018 Mažeikis was transferred to the reserve and at the end of the month was replaced by the Hungarian Zoltán Gulyás as director of the NSO.

Mažeikis has a total of around 1,500 hours of flight experience. He collected these u. a. in operations with the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-23 , Jakowlew Jak-52 , Antonow An-2 , Aero L-39 and the Mil Mi-2 helicopter .

Web links

Commons : Edvardas Mažeikis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ministry of Defense online report (English)
  2. ↑ Online report of the NATO Standardization Office (English)
  3. ↑ Online notification of the Ministry of Defense , accessed on February 1, 2019 (Lithuanian)
  4. ↑ Online report of the NATO Standardization Office of March 1, 2018, accessed on March 13, 2018 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Mažeikis, Edvardas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian major general, military diplomat, pilot, former commander of the Lithuanian Air Force
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Papilė , Akmenė County