Friedrich Riechmann (General)

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Friedrich Riechmann (* 1943 in Ploehnen, East Prussia ), a German is Lt. Gen. ( ret. ) Of the Army of the Armed Forces and worked from 2001 to 2004, the first commander of the Operations Command of the Armed Forces .

Lieutenant General Riechmann (right) visiting the MNB (S) of KFOR in 2002. Left Brigadier General Wolf-Dieter Skodowski Commander MNB (S)

Military career

Riechmann signed up for the Bundeswehr in 1964 and joined the paratrooper troops . He completed his general staff training at the command academy of the Indian armed forces in Wellington (Tamil Nadu) . It has had a variety of uses including a .: Deputy Commander of the Air Mobility Forces Command , Commander of the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division "Hanse" in Neubrandenburg . Riechmann also has a lot of operational experience. From January to April 1996 he was in command of the 1st German IFOR contingent in Bosnia and Herzegovina, from August 1996 to January 1997 commander of the 3rd German IFOR contingent (transition to SFOR ) and national commander in the operational area.

After the war in Kosovo , Riechmann was the commander of the 2nd German Army Contingent KFOR and national commander in the area of ​​operation from August to November 1999 . He then commanded the IV. Corps in Potsdam and in 2001 took over the newly established command and control command of the Bundeswehr , which was to become the supreme command for all German missions abroad. On September 16, 2004, Riechmann resigned from the Bundeswehr with a major tattoo .

On April 30, 2005, he received the US Forces' highest honor for foreigners, the Legion of Merit . Since 2005, Riechmann has been the Federal Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid Abroad for Johanniter Accident Aid .

Web links

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  1. ↑ Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. XLVI. Edition 2007/08 (founded by Walter Habel - formerly Degeners who is it), Lübeck 2007, p. 1058.
  2. ^ Bundeswehr report
  3. ↑ Press release of the Johanniter-Unfall-Hilfe ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.juh-medien.de
predecessor Office successor
--- Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command
2001-2004 		Holger Kammerhoff
personal data
SURNAME Riechmann, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Ploehnen, East Prussia