Günter Raulf

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Günter Raulf (born April 10, 1928 in Braunschweig , † October 27, 2015 in Bornheim ) was a German Air Force officer and lieutenant general  ret. D. He was one of the first generals in the Bundeswehr who did not serve as a soldier during World War II . From 1982 to 1984 he was head of the Air Force Office .

Life

That as the war experiences Raulf FlaK had collected helper, the university acquired after the war at the University of Labor, politics and business in Wilhelmshaven and studied economics in Goettingen . On January 2, 1956, he joined the German Armed Forces in the Krahnenberg barracks and was a participant in the first ensign course at the anti- aircraft troop school (later the Army Air Defense School ) in the Feldwebel-Schmid barracks in Rendsburg .

As an officer, after attending the Luftwaffe missile school, he was, among other things, Karl-Wilhelm Berkhans' advisor for military affairs in the management staff of the Federal Ministry and then provisional chief of the management staff under Georg Leber , from April 1, 1974 head of the "Usage courses" department the command academy of the Bundeswehr . In 1976 he was first transferred to the staff of the NATO headquarters AFCENT - Raulf was from April 1, 1982 to September 30, 1984 head of the Air Force Office in the Cologne Air Force Barracks Wahn . Most recently, he was Lieutenant General on October 1, 1984, Deputy Commander of the Allied Forces of NATO for the Baltic Sea accesses BALTAP ( Allied Command Baltic Approaches ) in Karup and held this post until his retirement on March 31, 1988, whereupon Lieutenant General Lutz Moek his successor there.

Raulf, who was a member of the SPD and was considered a pupil of Helmut Schmidt , came under fire from the CDU in the mid-1970s because he was said to have had contacts with the Socialist Reich Party . In 2005 he advocated keeping the nickname "Mölders" of the Jagdgeschwader 74 because he felt the renaming was unjustified.

His marriage to his wife Anneliese resulted in two sons.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Günter Raulf in General-Anzeiger (Bonn) from November 4, 2015
  2. ↑ Personal details . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1974, p. 170 ( online ).
  3. ↑ a b c From a human point of view: Looking for an apartment on the Elbe ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Hamburger Abendblatt , April 9, 1974.
  4. ↑ 50 years of the Army Air Defense School , German Army, Rendsburg, July 10, 2006.
  5. ↑ a b report , in: Die Zeit , 33/1972.
  6. ↑ Leber's retreat . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1976, p. 18 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Luftwaffenamt 1956–1999  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Federal Archives .@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bundesarchiv.de  
  8. ↑ European Defense. Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Volume 37, Verlag Europäische Wehrkunde, 1988, p. 248
  9. ↑ CDU asks about General Raulf's past ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). In: Hamburger Abendblatt , November 18, 1976, p. 2.
  10. ^ Defense Minister Struck wants to rename barracks - resistance is growing , ShortNews, March 4, 2005.
  11. ↑ Airmen want to continue to be called "Mölders" . In: Die Welt , March 4, 2005.
predecessor Office successor
Richard Frodl Heads of the Air Force Office
1982–1984 		Paul Sommerhoff
personal data
SURNAME Raulf, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General in the Air Force
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 2015
Place of death Bornheim