Frank Leidenberger

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Frank Leidenberger

Frank Leidenberger (born November 2, 1958 in Nuremberg ) is a German Army Officer ( Lieutenant General ) and has been Chief Digital Officer for the Bundeswehr's IT service provider , BWI GmbH , since September 2018 .

Career

In 1977, Leidenberger joined the Bundeswehr with the 10th Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion in Ingolstadt, and in 1978 took part in the 47th officer training course at Combat Troop School II in Munster (Örtze) . From 1978 to 1982 he studied economics and organizational sciences at the University of the Armed Forces in Munich , which he graduated with a degree in business administration.

After completing his studies, Leidenberger was deployed as platoon leader , intelligence officer ( S2 ) and company commander in Mountain Reconnaissance Battalion 8 in Freyung until 1990 .

Staff officer

From 1990 to 1992 he completed the 33rd general staff course at the command and control academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In 1992 he was transferred to Munich to the Office for Military Studies , the personnel-managing department for members of the Bundeswehr who are employed by the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), where he served until 1995. From 1995 to 1998 he took over the post of Operations General Staff Officer (G3) of Panzer Brigade 12 in Amberg under the command of Ulrich Wolf and Fritz von Korff .

After this deployment of the staff, Leidenberger took over a troop command with the Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion 13 in Gotha from 1998 to 2000 . During this deployment he was deployed abroad from November 1998 to April 1999 as part of SFOR . In Sarajevo he commanded the armored task force of the Multinational Brigade Center (DFGFA). Back in Germany, he took over the post of tutor in the general staff training at the leadership academy for a year. In 2001, Leidenberger was transferred to the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense , where he worked until 2002 as a consultant for military policy foundations and bilateral relations in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS III 1) under the command of Egon Ramms .

In 2002, Leidenberger was transferred to the staff of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg as Operations General Staff Officer (G3) , where he served under Holger Kammerhoff . After the French general Jean-Louis Py took over command of the Strasbourg corps in September 2003, Leidenberger continued to serve as its G3 officer and also completed another foreign assignment with him as part of the ISAF in Afghanistan , where he worked from August 2004 to February 2005 served as deputy chief of staff at the headquarters in Kabul .

Back in Germany and dated 2004, Leidenberger took over the post of Chief of Staff of the Special Operations Division in Regensburg under the command of Rainer Glatz . After two years in this post, he was reassigned to the Ministry of Defense in 2006 and was deployed in Bonn as head of the Bundeswehr Concept and Transformation department in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS VI 2) under the direction of Manfred Engelhardt .

general

On June 1, 2008, Leidenberger finally took over command of Airborne Brigade 31 in Oldenburg from Dieter Warnecke, being appointed Brigadier General . In addition, Leidenberger had been deployed abroad since November 29, 2009, this time as part of the ISAF in Afghanistan, where he took over the post of commander of the German contingent and also of regional commander North (RC North) from Jürgen Setzer . During his time as commanding officer, he and Haji Murad Ali, the commander of the 209th ANA Corps, led a. a. carried out Operation Taohid in the northern Afghan province of Baghlan. He handed over the post of ISAF Regional Commander North on June 20, 2010 to Hans-Werner Fritz .

On November 11, 2010, Leidenberger handed over command of Airborne Brigade 31 to Reinhardt Zudrop . As early as September 2010, Leidenberger took over from Jürgen Weigt in Ulm, the post of Deputy Chief of Staff Operations in the operational management command for intervention forces, under his new commander Markus Bentler . From October 1, 2012 until the end of April 2015, he headed the Bundeswehr Planning Office in Berlin. From June 2015 to July 11, 2016, he was Chief of Staff of the ISAF follow-up mission Resolute Support in Afghanistan.

From September 8, 2016 to August 31, 2018, Leidenberger was Commander German Units Multinational Corps / Basic Military Organization in the Army Command in Strausberg. Leidenberger passed this post to Major General Stephan Thomas . Leidenberger has been Chief Strategy Officer for BWI GmbH since September 1, 2018 and was given leave of absence from the German Armed Forces.

Private

Leidenberger is married and has two children.

Web links

Commons : Frank Leidenberger  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (PDF) BMVg Press and Information Office, June 20, 2008, accessed on April 4, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Handover appeal in the planning office of the Bundeswehr. In: planungsamt.bundeswehr.de. Retrieved July 6, 2015 .
  3. ↑ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10154308547208454&id=69621718453&__tn__=%2As
  4. ↑ http://www.dw.com/de/wie-erffektreich-ist-die-nato-in-afghanistan/a-19429655
  5. ↑ With heart and soul - General Rainer Korff is bid farewell. In: www.deutschesheer.de. Retrieved September 9, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Change of office in the Army Command: "Mister Digitization" logs off. In: http://www.deutschesheer.de/ . PIZ Deutsches Heer, August 31, 2018, accessed on September 1, 2018 .
  7. ↑ https://www.bwi.de/presse/newsroom/details/article/neue-aufstellung-der-bwi/
personal data
SURNAME Leidenberger, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Army of the Bundeswehr, head of the planning office
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg