Ekkehard Richter

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Ekkehard G. Richter (born February 13, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German major general a. D. the Bundeswehr . From 1987 to 1990 he was the commissioner for education and training at the General Inspector of the Bundeswehr . Most recently he was used as a commander and commander of the military area command  VII / 13th Panzer Grenadier Division. As an active soldier, he played a key role in the integration of the National People's Army into the German Armed Forces, and worked as a reservist until after he retired .

Life

Richter is a “school friend” of the future Lieutenant General Jörg Schönbohm . After graduating from high school in 1958, he joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate with Field Artillery Regiment 2 in Kassel . From 1965 to 1967 he was battery chief in the artillery training regiment in Idar-Oberstein . From 1967 to 1969 he was a fire control officer in Artillery Battalion 5 in Diez .

In 1969/70 he took part in the 11th general staff course (H) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg , where he was trained as an officer in the general staff service . He then became a consultant for army planning in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn and was battalion commander of the 195/19 tank artillery battalion in Münster - Handorf from 1975/76 . From 1976 to 1978 he was adjutant to the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , Lieutenant General Rüdiger von Reichert . From 1978 to 1981 Richter was Colonel i. G. Chief of Staff of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division under Major General Meinhard Glanz and Hans-Henning von Sandrart in Oldenburg . In 1980 he attended the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome . In 1981/82 he was head of department in staff department  VI (planning) in the command staff of the army (Fü H) in Bonn.

Brigadier General (from 1986) Richter was used from 1983 to 1987 as commander of the Panzergrenadierbrigade 32 in Schwanewede . From 1987 to 1990 he was the representative for education and training at the General Inspector of the Bundeswehr (BEA), Admiral Dieter Wellershoff , and 1987/88 deputy representative for reservist matters in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü S). In 1990 he was the military leader of the Bundeswehr Liaison Group - the advance command of the Bundeswehr Command East - to the Ministry for Disarmament and Defense (MfAuV) of the GDR in Strausberg, headed by Rainer Eppelmann ; the civil leadership of the liaison group was held by Gunnar Simon . From 1990 to 1995 the major general was the commander and commander of the military area command  VII / 13th Panzer Grenadier Division in Leipzig , responsible for Saxony and Thuringia . Judge set u. a. the naming of the Rosenhof barracks and the Görmar barracks in Mühlhausen / Thuringia .

After that, Richter was chairman of the advisory board for voluntary reservist work at the Association of Reservists of the German Federal Armed Forces for more than 15 years . V. (VdRBw). As such, he advocated maintaining conscription in Germany . His successor became a major general in 2011. D. Rainer Fiegle . In addition, he was president of the Friends of the Artillery Troop. V. , of which he is honorary president today. In 2006 he was on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Defense of German delegation leaders at the international conference “Mémoire partagée” in Paris, which was under the auspices of UNESCO .

Richter is married and has two children.

Fonts (selection)

Contributions to edited volumes

  • A strong group. Successful leadership in the units . In: Anton Steer (Ed.): People Leading in the Army . Report Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 3-524-89005-9 , pp. 141 ff.
  • Advisory board for voluntary reservist work at the association . In: Hans Frank (Ed.): Reserve in transition. From national defense to crisis management . With a foreword by Peter Struck , Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-8132-0846-X , p. 311 ff.
  • Declaration of the advisory board for voluntary reservist work at the VdRBw for the "retention of conscription" . In: Andrea Prüfert (Ed.): Does general conscription have a future in Germany ?. On the debate about the future defense structure (= Inner Leadership Forum . Vol. 21). Nomos, Baden-Baden 2003, ISBN 3-8329-0311-9 , pp. 87 ff.

Conversations / experience reports

  • Democratization of an army. Conversation between Major General Ekkehard G. Richter and Retired Divisional Officer Alfred Stutz . In: Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift 7/8 (1992), p. 338 ff.
  • Discussion with contemporary witness Lothar Engelhardt , Gerd-A. Engelmann, Hartmut Foertsch, Ekkehard Richter, Werner von Scheven , Waldemar Seifert, Gunnar Simon . In: Hans Ehlert (Ed.): Army without a future. The end of the NVA and German unity. Contemporary witness reports and documents (= military history of the GDR . Vol. 3). On behalf of the Military History Research Office. Ch. Links, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-86153-265-4 , pp. 208 ff.
  • The development of the years 1989 and 1990 from then and now perspective . In: Werner Krätschell (Ed.): What was and what remains: Fireside chats of former leading German military from East and West . 2nd edition, MGFA, Potsdam 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808882-9-5 , p. 63 ff.

literature

  • Giancarlo Colombo (Ed.): Who's who in Germany. A biographical encyclopaedia of Sutter's International Red Series, containing about 12,000 biographies of top-ranking personalities in the fields of business, politics, science, the arts and entertainment. An integrated appendix provides a lay-out of the various branches of German life and up-to-date statistics regarding leading enterprises . Volume 2: O-Z . Who's Who the International Red Series Verlag, Zurich 1994, ISBN 88-85246-25-7 , p. 1649.
  • Klaus Achim Kunz, Harald Oberhem (edit.): Commissioner for education and training of the inspector general of the Bundeswehr. Chronicle 1970-2006 . Edited by the Federal Ministry of Defense , 2nd edition, Bonn 2006, p. 93 ff.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jörg Schönbohm : Two armies and one fatherland. The end of the People's National Army. Siedler, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88680-452-6 , p. 54.
  2. ↑ See Hans-Heinrich Steyreiff: Bibliography of the annual papers 1957 to 1987 . In: Detlef Bald , Wilhelm Nolte, Hans-Heinrich Steyreiff: General staff training between society and the military. The annual work archive . Edited by the command academy of the Bundeswehr and the Clausewitz Society , Mittler, Herford u. a. 1991, ISBN 3-8132-0375-1 , p. 125.
  3. ↑ a b c d e The authors . In: Werner Krätschell (Ed.): What was and what remains: Fireside chats of former leading German military from East and West . 2nd edition, MGFA, Potsdam 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808882-9-5 , p. 152.
  4. ↑ Reiner Pommerin : From the “Cold War” to global conflict prevention and crisis management - military history between 1990 and 2006 . In: Karl-Volker Neugebauer (Hrsg.): Basic course in German military history. Three volumes with interactive DVD . Volume 3: The time after 1945: Armies in transition . Commissioned by the Military History Research Office, Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58100-3 , p. 300.
  5. ↑ Gunter Görner, Beate Kaiser (ed.): Chronicle of the city of Mühlhausen in Thuringia . Volume 7: 1976-2000 . Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza 2006, ISBN 3-938997-45-1 , p. 245.
  6. ↑ The Board , freundeskreis-artillerietruppe.de, accessed on 14 April 2017th
  7. ^ Conference Common Remembrance . In: Voice & Way 2/2007, p. 21.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Ekkehard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Richter, Ekkehard G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin