Ernst Konzett

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Ernst Konzett (born January 4, 1955 in Bludenz ) is a former officer in the Austrian Armed Forces with the rank of brigadier . From 2010 to 2020 he was military commander of Vorarlberg .

Life

Ernst Konzett was born in 1955 in Bludenz in Vorarlberg as the son of master locksmith Ernst Konzett (1914–2009) and Irmgard Konzett and joined the armed forces as a one-year volunteer , where he trained as a hunting commando . Following his officer training at the Theresian Military Academy , he retired in 1978 as a lieutenant in the 23rd Jäger Battalion in Bregenz .

In 1979 he was transferred to the Jagdkommando, as platoon commander and training officer. In 1981 he completed a course in the US Army Special Forces. In 1982 he took over a hunter company in Vorarlberg, and after an assignment abroad as a company commander, various staff assignments followed. In 1998 he became the commander of the 23rd Jäger Battalion in Bludesch in Vorarlberg.

Konzett is an army mountain guide , army ski instructor and military parachutist, state-certified civil mountain and ski guide and has been in the alpine instructor cadre of the Austrian Armed Forces for over 20 years as a course commander for army mountain guides a . a. Mountain courses active. He also took part in several missions abroad. In 2001 he was z. B. for six months battalion commander in the Austrian contingent 4 of the Kosovo troops (AUCON / KFOR) .

From March 2003, Konzett led the high-mountain mobile 6th Jäger Brigade in Absam in Tyrol and on March 1, 2006 he was promoted to brigadier . On January 29, 2010, he took over the function of military commander of Vorarlberg from his predecessor Gottfried Schröckenfuchs . Subsequently, on March 24, 2010, Ernst Konzett handed over command of the 6th Jäger Brigade to the new commander, Brigadier Anton Waldner.

On January 30, 2020, Gunther Hessel succeeded him as Vorarlberg military commander. Shortly before his departure, Ernst Konzett was awarded the State of Vorarlberg's Decoration of Honor in silver by Governor Markus Wallner at the Vorarlberg security reception on January 8, 2020 . On the occasion of the handover of command on January 30, 2020, Konzett received the Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria from Defense Minister Klaudia Tanner .

Others

For four years, Konzett was President of the Technical Commission of the international association of mountain guide associations organized around the world . As a climber, he has the three great north faces of the Alps (the Eiger north face , the Matterhorn north wall and the Walker pillar on the Grandes Jorasses by climbing -Nordwand) and successful expeditions in Alaska and South America performed.

Konzett lives in Nüziders , is married and has two children.

Awards and decorations (extract)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ New commander of the "Dulje" task force. In: Website of the Austrian Armed Forces. April 10, 2001, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Brigadier Ernst Konzett new military commander in Vorarlberg. In: Website of the Austrian Armed Forces. January 29, 2010, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Change of leadership in the 6th Jäger Brigade. In: Website of the Austrian Armed Forces. March 24, 2010, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  4. ^ Colonel Hessel new military commander. In: vorarlberg.ORF.at . December 9, 2019, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Wolfgang Hollenstein: LH Wallner thanked Vorarlberg security forces for their dedicated work. In: Press release of the Vorarlberger Landeskorrespondenz. January 8, 2020, accessed January 9, 2020 .
  6. ↑ a b Gunther Hessel is now in command. In: Vorarlberg Online (VOL.at). January 30, 2020, accessed January 31, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Concert, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian military, brigadier of the Austrian Federal Army
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Bludenz , Austria