Friedrich von Senden

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Friedrich Freiherr von Senden (born March 19, 1942 in Birkenwerder ) is a major general out of service in the army of the Bundeswehr .

Life

Friedrich Freiherr von Senden comes from the family of the students of Sehnden , a family of Prussian officers, civil servants, lawyers and landowners. His parents were the lawyer and major in the reserve Eberhard von Senden (1893–1945) and his second wife Rose-Lene, b. von Freier (1904-2001). He has three older siblings as well as a triplet brother and a triplet sister.

After graduating from high school, von Senden joined the army as an officer candidate in the tank battalion 84 in Lüneburg . After training as an officer, he was deployed from 1966 to 1975 as a platoon leader, S2 / S1 officer and company commander in tank battalions 84 and 83 . During this period he was commanded for a year as a lecture hall director at Combat Troop School III in Munster.

After successfully completing the 18th general staff course of the army at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, he was secretary of the committee for disarmament and arms control of the German Bundestag from 1978 to February 1979 and from March 1979 to February 1981 G3 and chief of the staff of the 33 armored brigade in Celle . This was followed by studies at the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk (Virginia) , which he graduated with honors in 1982.

After renewed command of the troops from 1982 to 1984 as lieutenant colonel and commander of the 283 tank battalion in Münsingen , von Senden moved to the command staff of the armed forces as a consultant FüS III 5 . From 1986 to 1988 department head G3 and deputy. Chief of staff for leadership, operational planning and training in the I. Corps in Münster , he became head of the tactical center of the army in Hanover in 1988 .

From March 19, 1990 to March 31, 1991 he was Colonel i. G. Liaison officer of the BMVg and adjutant of the Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker , then until 1993 first commander of the newly established Homeland Security Brigade 42 in Potsdam (from 1994: Panzerbrigade 42 "Brandenburg").

In the meantime promoted to brigadier general, he became commander of the Army Officers' School in Hanover on October 1, 1993 . In this function he was responsible for the planning and infrastructure measures for the relocation of the officers' school from Hanover to Dresden. He gave the army officers' school the slogan "To serve in freedom". In December 1995 he was again assigned to command as deputy commander of the Multinational Division Central (Airmobile) in Rheindahlen and was then commissioned on May 1, 1999 with the command of the corps troops of the IV Corps in Geltow .

From November 1999 to May 2000 he was employed as Chief Joint Implementation Commission at the KFOR 2 headquarters in Pristina . Subsequently, von Senden was reassigned to Geltow as deputy commanding general and commander of the corps troops IV. Corps and promoted to major general.

From March 27, 2001 to September 2002, he was deputy commander of the Army Command and Commander of the Supreme Army Command and Army Command at the Federal Ministry of Defense .

On September 12, 2002, von Senden in the Falckenstein barracks in Koblenz bid farewell to his retirement on September 30, 2002 with a formal appeal by the commander of the Army Command, Lieutenant General Axel Bürgener .

In retirement, Freiherr von Senden wrote an extensive family history and his father's revised war memories from the First World War .

Awards

Fonts

  • Friedrich Frhr. v. Send: History of Barons von Senden and Barons Schuler von Senden , 2nd revised edition, Pro Business, Berlin 2010 (BoD), ISBN 9783868056280

literature

  • Hartmut Hager: 10 years of Army Command , publishing house for advertising papers, Mülheim-Kärlich 2004
  • Manfred Sadlowski (editor): Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 1999 , Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7637-5991-3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser , Volume XXV (Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Volume 150), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg 2011, pp. 451–453
  2. ↑ Dieter E. Kilian : Politics and the military in Germany: The Federal Presidents and Federal Chancellors and their relationship to the military and the Bundeswehr , 2011, page 172
  3. ↑ Das Panzerartilleriebataillon 425 ( Memento from April 15, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  4. ↑ Friedrich Frhr. v. Senden: History of Barons von Senden and Barons Schuler von Senden , Berlin 2010, p. 489
  5. ^ "Change in the Army Command in Koblenz" ( Memento from February 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), press release from the Army Command from September 12, 2002
  6. ^ Directory of foreign medals on the website of the Portuguese President
personal data
SURNAME Send, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Send, Friedrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general
DATE OF BIRTH March 19, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Birkenwerder