Erhard Drews

Erhard Drews

Erhard Drews (born November 21, 1952 in Müssen / Lippe district ) is a major general a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . In his last assignment he was head of the Office for Army Development of the Bundeswehr from January 2013 to November 2014 .

Military career

In 1971, Drews joined the German Army Training Battalion 94 in Munster . After training as an officer , he served in various positions from 1975 to 1982, including as a platoon leader , intelligence officer ( S2 ) and company commander in Panzer Battalion 64 in Wolfhagen . From 1982 to 1983 Drews was deployed as an operations officer (S3) in the staff of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division in Kassel for a year. From 1983 to 1986 he completed general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and then served until 1987 as a G3 staff officer of the III. Corps in Koblenz . From 1987 to 1989 he was also employed in Koblenz as a G3 staff officer of Panzerbrigade 34 .

In 1989 Drews moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn and was employed there until 1991 as an Army Planning Officer in the Army Command Staff (FüH). Subsequently, from 1991 to 1992 he took over a troop command with the 343 tank battalion in Koblenz, which he held for a year. In 1992 he was transferred to the leadership academy in Hamburg, where he taught troop leadership and was also a tutor for general staff training until 1995. In 1995, Drews became a staff member of the Military District Command III / 7. Panzer Division moved to Düsseldorf , where he was in charge of the operations department (G3) until 1997. After this assignment, Drews served again in the Ministry of Defense in Bonn and Berlin , this time as head of the Bundeswehr planning department in the BMVg's planning staff until 2000 .

From 2000 to 2002 he took over a troop command with Panzer Brigade 34 in Diez an der Lahn , in which he had already served as a staff officer at the end of the 1980s. During this deployment he was with the brigade on an international assignment and served from December 2001 to May 2002 within the framework of SFOR as Chief of Staff of the Multinational Division Southeast in Mostar in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Back in Germany, Drews took on the post of Deputy Commander of the Air Mobile Operations Division in Veitshöchheim from 2002 to 2003 under the command of Dieter Budde . Following this assignment, Drews was transferred to Cologne and served in the Army Office there from 2003 to 2004 as Head of Department IV Organization. From 2004 to 2005 he was finally Chief of Staff of the Army Office under the command of Jürgen Ruwe . From 2005 to 2009 he was in command of the Bundeswehr Transformation Center in Waldbröl / Strausberg and has been in command of the Air Mobility Operations division since February 12, 2009. On September 9, 2011, he took over command of the KFOR troops in Kosovo from Erhard Bühler and handed it over to Volker Halbauer on September 7, 2012 after one year . From January 1, 2013 to November 24, 2014 Drews was head of the Army Development Office (until 2013 Army Office) of the Bundeswehr in Cologne.

He is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ google.com/hostednews/afp ( Memento from September 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
2. ↑ Thomas Wiegold : German General Volker Halbauer is the next KFOR commander. augengeradeaus.net, August 21, 2012, accessed on August 31, 2012 . 
3. ↑ Wilfried Luchtenberg : Major General Erhard Drews takes over the army office. deutschesheer.de, January 17, 2013, accessed on January 17, 2013 .