Gerd Bishop

Gerd Bischof (born May 17, 1953 in Rheinhausen ) is a Brigadier General a. D. the air force of the German armed forces .

Life

Military career

Training and first uses

Bishop joined the Bundeswehr in 1972. After training as an officer , he served from 1974 to 1976 as platoon leader and deputy chief of the squadron training squadron of Light Combat Squadron 42 in Bad Sobernheim . From 1976 to 1979 he studied economics and organization at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . After completing his studies, Bischof was employed as an air traffic control officer with Jagdgeschwader 71 “Richthofen” in Wittmund until 1985 .

Service as a staff officer

From 1985 to 1987 Bischof completed the national general staff course (LGAN) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and was then promoted to major . From 1987 to 1989 he served on the staff of the 4th Air Force Division in Aurich as head of department for command and information systems. Afterwards, Bischof was transferred to the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense , where he served from 1989 to 1991 as an advisor for security and military policy in the command staff of the armed forces . From 1991 to 1992 he completed a degree in security policy and arms control at the Institute for Strategic Studies at the University of Geneva , from which he graduated with a licentiate .

Back in Germany, from 1992 to 1993, he was a course advisor for economics and security at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Bonn. In 1993 he took over a troop command with the Air Base Group of Fighter Bomber Squadron 34 "Allgäu" in Memmingen , which he held until 1995.

From 1995 to 1999 he was the office manager of the chairman of the NATO military committee , General Klaus Naumann , at NATO headquarters in Brussels . In 1999 he was again transferred to the Bonn Ministry of Defense, where Bischof served as Head of Department for Internal Management, Political Education and Military History in the Command Staff of the Armed Forces (FüS I) under the direction of Major General Egon Ramms until 2003 . From 2003 to 2007, Bischof was finally employed in the Federal Chancellery in Berlin , where he was head of the Military Policy Division under Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD ) and then, from 2006, Group Leader 22 Military Policy and Military Affairs under Chancellor Angela Merkel ( CDU ). He took over this task from Colonel Henning Hars and handed it over to Colonel Erich Vad in 2007 .

Service in the rank of general

From March 23, 2007, Bishop was in command of the Air Force Training Command in Cologne-Wahn . During this employment he was made a brigadier general. From March 17, 2010, he was also the contingent leader of the German contingent EUFOR and chief of staff at the EUFOR headquarters in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of Operation Althea under the command of Austrian Major General Bernhard Bair . His mission ended in 2010. On June 30, 2011, he handed over the post of commander to Rainer Keller . Most recently, he was Director of Academic Plans & Policy at the NATO Defense College in Rome from July 1, 2011 to August 2014 .

Private

Bishop is married with three children.

Web links

• Photo by Gerd Bischof

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Air Force Training Command under new leadership. Accessed August 23, 2015.
2. ↑ Visiting NATO Defense College.Retrieved August 23, 2015.