Friedhelm Tränapp

Friedhelm Tränapp (* 1963 in Esens ) is a Brigadier General of the Air Force of the German Armed Forces and Assistant Chief of Staff J 1 at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe of NATO in Mons ( Belgium ).

Military career

Training and first uses

Tränapp joined the Air Force as an officer candidate in 1982 and completed his training as an officer in the Air Force Security Force . From 1983 to 1986 he studied education at the University of the Federal Armed Forces . From 1986 he was employed as platoon leader in the air force security squadron in Fighter Bomber Squadron 38 "Friesland" in Jever and as head of the air force security squadron in Jagdgeschwader 71 "Richthofen" in Wittmund . This was followed by assignments as an examining officer for officer applicants in the personnel registry in Cologne and as a lecture hall director at the Air Force NCO school in Appen . Tränapp then completed the national general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

Service as a staff officer

The first employment as a general staff officer led Tränapp as staff officer A 1 ( internal management , human resources, information work, youth work / recruiting, personnel replacement ) to the 1st Air Force Division in Karlsruhe . This was followed by a position as a consultant Fü S VII 1 ( fundamental matters of the military organization; business and correspondence in the armed forces; service regulations and standardization agreements ) in the command staff of the armed forces in Bonn . Another assignment followed in the personnel department in the Federal Ministry of Defense, in which Tränapp took care of basic matters relating to officers' personnel management . Between September 2004 and March 2006, Tränapp led the Air Force object protection battalion with five squadrons in Wittmund, Schortens and Diepholz as battalion commander . He handed this over to Lieutenant Colonel Markus Kurczyk . Subsequently, until 2009 he was department head A1 ( personnel processing , personnel processing reservist matters, troop personnel matters, deployments ) in the air force command in Cologne. During this time, a six-month assignment abroad took place as the commander of the German EUFOR contingent in Sarajevo ( Bosnia-Herzegovina ). Tränapp then became Head of Division P II 1 ( Principles of Personnel Management, Military Personnel; Military Personnel Budget ) in the Personnel Department in the Federal Ministry of Defense.

Service as a general

In February 2015 Tränapp became the first head of the attractiveness working group and secretary of the attractiveness steering board in the Ministry of Defense. In this post he was promoted to brigadier general in September of the same year. Shortly afterwards he gave up this post to Colonel Olaf Rohde in order to succeed Brigadier General Jürgen Knappe as Managing General in the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr . He handed over this post to Brigadier General Georg Klein in March 2017 in order to take up the newly created post as Compliance Management Officer at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin on March 7, 2017 . On July 1, 2019, he moved to the post of Assistant Chief of Staff J 1 at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe of NATO in Mons (Belgium).

Private

Tränapp is married and has one son.

Individual evidence

^ GA: Object protection battalion before change. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. March 25, 2006, accessed November 16, 2018 .
↑ DETLEF KIESÉ: Esenser Tränapp wants to make the Bundeswehr more attractive. In: Anzeiger for the Harlinger Land- Ostfriesisches Tageblatt. January 15, 2015, accessed November 16, 2018 .
↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - April 2017. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and Information Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense, April 15, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2018 .
^ Federal Ministry of Defense receives compliance officer. In: https://www.bmvg.de . Press and Information Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense, March 7, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2018 .
↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - July 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff at the BMVg, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Tränapp, Friedhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German Air Force Brigadier General and Compliance Management Officer at the Federal Ministry of Defense
DATE OF BIRTH	1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Esens

[1] GA: Object protection battalion before change. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. March 25, 2006, accessed November 16, 2018 .

[2] DETLEF KIESÉ: Esenser Tränapp wants to make the Bundeswehr more attractive. In: Anzeiger for the Harlinger Land- Ostfriesisches Tageblatt. January 15, 2015, accessed November 16, 2018 .

[3] Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - April 2017. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and Information Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense, April 15, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2018 .

[4] Federal Ministry of Defense receives compliance officer. In: https://www.bmvg.de . Press and Information Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense, March 7, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2018 .

[5] Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - July 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff at the BMVg, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .