Gerd-Helmut Komossa
Gerd-Helmut Komossa (born November 11, 1924 in Allenstein , East Prussia ; † April 26, 2018 in Bonn ) was a major general in the Bundeswehr . From 1977 to 1980 he was the head of the "Office for Security of the Federal Armed Forces" (ASBw) and the head of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD).
Life
He joined the Wehrmacht in 1943 and was deployed as an advanced observer on the Eastern Front. In 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets, which he spent in a camp in Tilsit in East Prussia. After the war, he was taken over as a first lieutenant in the Bundeswehr in 1956 . From 1971 to 1973 he was adjutant to the inspector general of the Bundeswehr , Admiral Armin Zimmermann .
After his work in the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, Komossa took over the management of the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD) under the Social Democratic Defense Minister Georg Leber on September 28, 1977, after the retirement of Brigadier General Paul-Albert Scherer . The MAD was hit hard at the time because of a series of clandestine wiretapping operations (e.g. Traube eavesdropping affair ), and Komossa was supposed to reorganize the intelligence service. He then took over command of the 12th Panzer Division as the successor to Gert Bastian and was promoted to major general. Subsequently, he was from April 1, 1983 to March 31, 1985 Commander of the Territorial Command South .
In 1996/97 Komossa was one of the founding members of the majority vote .
Since 2000, Gerd Komossa has published several books, two of them in the publisher Stocker / Ares , which is considered to be politically right-wing . He gave an interview to the far-right National Zeitung (issue 25/2005). He was chairman of the Gesellschaft für die Einheit Deutschlands e. V. ( Bonn ), which was funded in 2001 by the Federal Agency for Civic Education as a recognized educational institution.
Honors
- 1983: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works
- Germany today. A critical balance. Thoughts of a soldier , Bernard and Graefe, Bonn 2000, ISBN 3-7637-6205-1 .
- From Masuria to the Rhine. Homecoming to Foreign Countries , Leopold Stocker Verlag , Graz 2003, ISBN 3-7020-0995-7 .
- The German map. The covert game of the secret services. A head of the MAD reports , Ares-Verlag , Graz 2007, ISBN 978-3-902475-34-3 .
literature
- Munzinger Archive International Biographical Archive 30/1983 of July 18, 1983 (beginning of article)
- Dermot Bradley et al. a. (Ed.): The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr. Volume 2.2, ISBN 3-7648-2562-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerd-Helmut Komossa in the catalog of the German National Library
Single receipts
- ↑ Obituary notice of Gerd Helmut Komossa retired major general † April 26, 2018. Aspetos GmbH, accessed on June 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Federal Agency for Civic Education / Partners
- ↑ ( page no longer available , search in web archives: recognized educational institutions )
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Artur Weber (1961–1962) | Kurt von Eine (1962–1964) | Peter von Butler (1964–1967) | Gerd Kobe (1967–1971) | Hans Teusen (1971–1973) | Paul-Georg Kleffel (1973–1976) | Gert Bastian (1976–1980) | Gerd-Helmut Komossa (1980–1982) | Lutz Moek (1982–1984) | Siegfried Storbeck (1984–1986) | Gert Verstl (1986–1989) | Hartmut Foertsch (1989–1990) | Hartmut Bagger (1990–1992) | Manfred Eisele (1992–1994)
Gerhard Wessel (1956–1957) | Josef Selmayr (1957–1964) | Heinrich Seeliger (1964–1967) | Armin Eck (1967–1972) | Paul-Albert Scherer (1972–1977) | Gerd-Helmut Komossa (1977–1980) | Klaus Vollmer (1980–1982) | Elmar Schmähling (1982–1983) | Helmut Behrendt (1983–1984) | Hubertus Senff (1984–1987) | Winfried Schwenke (1987–1991) | Rudolf von Hoegen (1991–2003) | Richard Alff (2003-2008) | Georg Freiherr von Brandis (2008–2010) | Karl-Heinz Brusselsbach (2010–2012) | Ulrich Birkenheier (2012–2014) | Christof Gramm (since 2014)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Komossa, Gerd-Helmut |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Komossa, Gerd Hellmuth; Komossa, Gerd Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German General of the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 11, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Allenstein |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2018 |
| Place of death | Bonn |