Frank Schlösser

Frank Schlösser (born October 1, 1962 in Duisburg ) is a brigadier general in the Army of the German Armed Forces and has been Deputy Chief of Staff ( DCOS) Transition at the headquarters of the Resolute Support Mission in Kabul ( Afghanistan ) since February 2020 .

Military career

Training and first uses

Schlösser joined the German Armed Forces in 1982 as a conscript with Telecommunications Battalion 7 in Lippstadt . From 1983 to 1985 he completed his training as an officer in the telecommunications force . From 1986 to 1991 he was employed as platoon leader , head of staff department and company commander in the 620 telecommunications battalion in Flensburg . Afterwards he was transferred to Feldafing to the telecommunications school of the army, where he was employed from 1992 to 1995 as a lecture hall manager in the officer candidate course . Schlösser then completed the 39th Army General Staff Course from 1996 to 1998 at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg.

Service as a staff officer

Upon completion of the General Staff course locks was from 1998 to 2000 as a staff officer in the Department G3 management science continue to be used at the Staff College. From 2000 to 2001 he was employed as a staff officer G3 with the 36th Panzer Brigade in Veitshöchheim . From 2001 to 2003, Schlösser led the telecommunications battalion 210 in Ulm as battalion commander . From 2003 to 2005 he was employed as a ministerial officer for Fü S III 6 (military policy basics for operations and exercises) in the command staff of the armed forces in Berlin . From 2003 to 2005, Schlösser continued to work as a consultant in the offices of State Secretaries Peter Eickenboom and Rüdiger Wolf . From 2008 to 2011 he was employed as Head of Department G6 in the Rapid Operations Division, first in Regensburg , and later at the Stadtallendorf site . From 2011 to 2012 Schlösser took part in the Senior Course at the NATO Defense College in Rome and in 2012 in the core seminar at the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. From 2012 to 2013 there was another deployment of troops as commander of the 38th Command Support Regiment in Storkow (Mark) . From 2013 to 2014 another ministerial assignment followed as an office manager with the head of the politics department in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin, Ministerialdirektor Ulrich Schlie .

Service as a general

On February 1, 2017, Schlösser became the successor to Brigadier General Dietmar Mosmann , commander of the information technology school of the Bundeswehr . In this post he was also promoted to Brigadier General in June 2018. At the end of January 2019, he handed over the post as commander of the Bundeswehr Information Technology School to Colonel Rainer Simon. Schlösser took over the post of J7 Branchhead Force Development at the headquarters of the Resolute Support Mission in Kabul (Afghanistan) from Brigadier General Markus Kurzcyk from February 2020 . The post was reclassified as part of the handover to the DCOS Transition .

Assignments abroad

• 2001 Military Assistant Chief of Staff SFOR

• 2011 Chef de Cabinet des Force Commander KFOR
• 2020 Deputy Chief of Staff Transition Resolute Support Mission, Kabul (Afghanistan)

Web links

• Brigadier General Frank Schlösser. Bundeswehr(Vita). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV
2. ↑ Bernd Hansen is now in command of the battalion. In: volksstimme.de. July 26, 2012, accessed July 13, 2018 . 
3. ^ Change of command at the Pöcking location. In: merkur.de. February 1, 2017, accessed July 13, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Sandra Sedlmaier: Extraordinary deregistration: Frank Schlösser gives up management of the Bundeswehr school in Feldafing and Pöcking. In: merkur.de. January 27, 2020, accessed February 4, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - February 2020. Press and information staff in the BMVg, February 4, 2020, archived from the original on February 4, 2020 ; accessed on March 25, 2020 .