General Heusinger Prize
The General Heusinger Prize is the highest award in officer training in the Bundeswehr . It is named after the first General Inspector of the Bundeswehr , General Adolf Heusinger , who donated this award on August 4, 1967 on the occasion of his 70th birthday to the best course participant in the two-year course to complete the General Staff / Admiralty Staff Training (LGAN) at the Management Academy Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) excel in Hamburg.
The then General Inspector General Ulrich de Maizière commented on the award: “The 'General Heusinger Prize' will be an incentive for our young general staff candidates to achieve high levels of human and professional performance”.
Among the award winners are two future General Inspectors (Admiral Dieter Wellershoff and General Klaus Naumann ).
Award winners
Prize winners are:
- 1967 Major Wilhelm Jacoby (Army)
- 1968 Major Rolf Thiemann (Air Force)
- 1969 Major Helge Hansen (Army) and Corvette Captain Dieter Wellershoff (Navy)
- 1970 Major Klaus Bodenstein (Army)
- 1971 Corvette Captain Rolf Martens (Navy)
- 1972 Major Klaus Naumann (Army)
- 1973 Major Manfred Opel (Air Force)
- 1974 Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang Schikowski (Army)
- 1975 Major Michael Vollstedt (Air Force)
- 1976 Corvette Captain Volker Hausbeck (Navy)
- 1977 Captain Manfred Dietrich (Army)
- 1978 Captain Klaus Olshausen (Army)
- 1979 Corvette Captain Klaus Peter Scholz (Navy)
- 1980 Major Klaus Peter Treche (Air Force)
- 1981 Captain Ulrich Wolf (Army)
- 1982 Major Hans-Georg Atzinger (Army)
- 1983 Corvette Captain Lutz Feldt (Navy)
- 1984 Captain Manfred Lange (Air Force)
- 1985 Chief Medical Officer Folker Meißner (Army)
- 1986 Captain Karl Heinz Schreiner (Air Force)
- 1987 Captain Rainer Meyer zum Felde b. Pipahl (Air Force)
- 1988 Captain Carsten Jacobson (Army)
- 1989 Captain Eckart Klink (Army)
- 1990 Corvette Captain Thorsten Kähler (Navy)
- 1991 Captain Henning Hars (Army)
- 1992 Chief Medical Officer Rüdiger Trapp (Air Force)
- 1993 Major Klaus von Heimendahl (Army)
- 1994 Corvette Captain Rainer Endres (Navy)
- 1995 Major Arne Skjaerpe (Norway / Army)
- 1996 Senior Field Physician Ulrich Pracht (Air Force)
- 1997 Major Roderich Kiesewetter (Army)
- 1998 Major Kai Rohrschneider (Army)
- 1999 Major Jan Kuebart (Air Force)
- 2000 Major Wolfgang Ohl (Air Force)
- 2001 Corvette Captain Thomas Lehnen (Navy)
- 2002 Major Peter Mirow (Army)
- 2003 Major Olaf Rohde (Army)
- 2004 Corvette Captain Wilhelm Tobias Abry (Navy)
- 2005 Corvette Captain Ralf Kuchler (Navy)
- 2006 Major Christian Freuding (Army)
- 2007 Major Kai Häußermann (Army)
- 2008 Major Jörg Nigge (Army)
- 2009 Major Markus Meyer (Army)
- 2010 Major Arnd Kersten (Army)
- 2011 Major Sascha Zwick (Army)
- 2012 Major Stephan Podolski (Army)
- 2013 Major Andreas Bleek (Army)
- 2014 Major Thorsten Piecha (Army)
- 2015 Major Mitko Müller (Air Force)
- 2016 Major Andre Knappe (Air Force)
- 2017 Major Florian Beerenkämper (Army)
- 2018 Major Joachim Ruthe (Army)
- 2019 Major Frank Obermeyer (Army)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Special awards at the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy , website of the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy, accessed on November 21, 2015.
- ^ John Zimmermann : Ulrich de Maizière, General of the Bonn Republic. 1912 to 2006 (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 12). Oldenbourg, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-486-71300-8 , p. 255.
- ^ Georg Meyer: Adolf Heusinger. Service of a German soldier 1915 to 1964. Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2001, ISBN 3-8132-0769-2 , p. 911.
- ↑ List of the 1994–2016 award winners . In: Institute for the history of persons: Support group of the Foundation for the history of persons (Ed.): Mitteilungen . tape 20 , no. 2 , 2017, p. 23 ( Personengeschichte.de [PDF]).
- ^ Dieter E. Kilian : Politics and the military in Germany. The Federal Presidents and Chancellors and their relationship to the military and the Bundeswehr . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937885-36-0 , p. 227.
- ^ Sti: Chancellor with the officers. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 23, 2004, p. 17 , accessed November 23, 2015 .
- ↑ sti: Officer training: the best in the course is a corvette captain. In: Hamburger Abendblatt. September 22, 2005, p. 14 , accessed November 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Christoph Weigmann: The Art of Leadership: LGAN 2015 is adopted. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 21, 2017 ; accessed on September 20, 2017 (German). 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.
- ↑ Christoph Weigmann: At the beginning and at the end it's about integrity of character. Retrieved on October 9, 2018 (German).
