Franz Xaver Pfrengle

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Franz Xaver Pfrengle (born December 3, 1956 in Furtwangen in the Black Forest ) is a retired Brigadier General . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . His last employment was from October 1, 2017 to March 31, 2019, Assistant Chief of Staff J7, Force Preparation and Evaluation at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe in Mons , Belgium .

Military career

Training and first uses

Promotions

Pfrengle entered the service of the Bundeswehr in Munich on July 1, 1975 as an officer candidate in the pioneer troop . In October 1976 he was transferred to the Helmut Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and began studying mechanical engineering. During his studies he was in October 1977 to lieutenant and in May 1980 Lieutenant appointed.

After completing his academic training, he returned to the troops in Munich in February 1981 as a graduate engineer. There he was deployed in the heavy engineer training battalion 220 as a platoon leader until September 1983 , and then as a platoon leader and lecture hall manager at the army pioneer school and technical college for structural engineering . In July 1985 Pfrengle was transferred to the Pipeline Engineer Battalion 800 in Wuppertal , where he became company commander . The promotion to captain followed in October 1985.

General staff training and service as a staff officer

From April 1988 to May 1990 Pfrengle completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. This was followed by participation in the "Cours supérieur interarmées", the French general staff training at the "Ecole Supérieure de Guerre" in Paris until June 1992. During the course in France he was promoted to major in October 1990 . Back in Germany he became department head G2 in the staff of the 12th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen and took part in the United Nations operation in Somalia I (UNOSOM). His path then took him to Strasbourg in October 1993, when he was appointed lieutenant colonel , to the Eurocorps , to serve on the staff as G3-op.

Three years later, in October 1996, he received his first troop command and took over as commander of the 12 heavy engineer battalion in Volkach . After this time, from October 1998 onwards, he was employed as a consultant in Section III 1 (Section Military Policy Basics and Bilateral Relations) of the Armed Forces Command Staff at Hardthöhe in Bonn . In July 2000 Pfrengle returned to the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and became the head of the 43rd Army General Staff course. Associated with this post was the appointment as Colonel in October 2000. In April 2002, another assignment in the Federal Ministry of Defense followed, this time in the planning staff in Berlin as Head of Department Europe, ESDP and Africa.

In July 2004 Pfrengle was sent to Paris again as a course participant, this time at the “Center des hautes études militaires” and at the “Institut des hautes études de la défense nationale”. He was then transferred to the Franco-German Brigade in Müllheim (Baden) in September 2005 . There he took over the post of deputy commander of the brigade and was thus also commander of the German portion. Even before Pfrengle officially handed over this post to his French successor, Colonel Dominique Laugel, on September 20, 2007, he began the International Fellow course in July 2007 at the United States Army War College , Carlisle .

Service as a general

On June 26, 2008, Franz Xaver Pfrengle took over command of the army officers' school from Norbert Stier . In November 2008 he was appointed brigadier general. On July 1, 2011 he took over the post of Head of Department II and General Training in the Army in the Army Office in Cologne . On June 28, 2013, he moved to the staff of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg, where he held the post of Deputy Chief of Operations (DCOS Ops) until July 2015. Pfrengle is also used in his current role in the Eurocorps. From June 25, 2015 to September 7, 2017, Pfrengle was Chief of Staff (COS) in the Eurocorps. From July 28, 2015, he will also be the first German general to lead the EUTM Mali . In December 2015 he handed this command over to Brigadier General Werner Albl . On October 1, 2017, he took over his current position as Assistant Chief of Staff J7 at SHAPE from Brigadier General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart . Pfrengle held this post until March 2019 and finally retired on April 1, 2019.

Private

Franz Xaver Pfrengle is married to Ute Pfrengle and has two daughters and a son.

literature

  • Handbook of the Bundeswehr and Defense Industry 2007/2008. Bernard & Graefe publishing house, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7637-6276-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - October 2017. Accessed on October 12, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (PDF) BMVg Press and Information Office, June 20, 2008, accessed on April 4, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Pfrengle, Franz Xaver
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pfrengle, Franz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd December 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Furtwangen in the Black Forest