Gerhard Brugmann

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Gerhard Brugmann (born August 13, 1930 in Hengelo , Netherlands ) is a German officer ( retired major general ) and author. Most recently he was in command of the Territorial Command South .

Life

Origin and studies

Brugmann is a grandson of the Indo-Europeanist and linguist Karl Brugmann , over whose youthful memories he has the right of disposal. He was born in Holland in 1930, grew up in Italy and Berlin and attended a. a. the Princely and State School St. Afra in Meißen, Saxony.

From 1947 to 1950 he was then at the Carl Hunnius boarding school in Wyk auf Föhr , where he passed his Abitur . He then studied law at the universities in Mainz and Freiburg im Breisgau .

Brugmann lives in Westermoor .

Military background

Promotions

On May 1, 1956, he joined the Bundeswehr (pioneer training battalion in Munich) and was trained as an army officer. In 1958/59 he was platoon leader and in 1959 S1 / S2 in Pioneer Battalion 4 in Ingolstadt. In 1959/60 he was company commander in engineer battalion 10 and 1960/61 in tank engineer company 350 in Ingolstadt. From 1961 to 1963 he was an adjutant of the commanding general of the III. Corps , Lieutenant General Heinz Gaedcke , used in Koblenz. From 1963 to 1965 he completed the 6th General Staff Course (H) at the Management Academy of the Federal Armed Forces (FüAkBw) in Hamburg.

1965/66 he attended the US Army Command and General Staff College (CGSC) in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas; the future American General John R. Galvin (ret.) was in the same year and mentioned Brugmann in his memories. 1966/67 he was G2 of the 12th Panzer Division in Tauberbischofsheim and Veitshöchheim. In 1967 he became G3 of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 35 in Hammelburg. In 1969/70 he was the commander of the Pioneer Battalion 12 in Speyer. From 1970 to 1973 he was employed as a consultant in the Department for Operations Management in the Army Command (Fü H) in Bonn. From 1973 to 1977 he was adjutant to the inspector general of the Bundeswehr (during the tenure of Admiral Armin Zimmermann and general of the air force Harald Wust ). In 1976/77 he attended the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London. From 1977 to 1979 he was in command of the 16 Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Wentorf.

From 1979 to 1983 he was Chief of Staff of the 1st Corps in Münster. He then served in the HQ of the Central Army Group (CENTAG) in Heidelberg. From 1985 to 1990 he was in command of the Territorial Command South (TerrKdo Süd) in Mannheim and thus national command in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. In 1988 he was responsible for the military exercise "National Defense 1988", which u. a. had been visited by Chancellor Helmut Kohl . In 1990 he was retired.

Journalism and volunteering

He is the author / editor of several publications a. a. a partial autobiography by Heinz Gaedcke ( BoD ) and an anthology about the history of the reservists of the Bundeswehr ( Mittler ). He also wrote other contributions. a. in Mars magazines . Yearbook for military policy and military affairs and European military science .

After 1990 he advised state politics and municipalities in the New States on the conversion of properties used by the Soviets . He is also committed to military and civil protection of cultural property ; so he performed functions in the German Society for the Protection of Cultural Property . He also volunteered for the Catholic Caritas ; he was German Caritas delegate and traveled to his retirement in 1999 for humanitarian aid in Kosovo .

In 2008 he initiated the working group “Soldiers in action and German law” in the Clausewitz Society .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Experienced turning point. Fragments from that time (= Edition Fischer ). RG Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1996, ISBN 3-89501-339-0 .
  • Experienced turning point in the east. Experiences, observations and assessments of a West German in the former GDR (= pkp publishing house ). Pierre Kynast, Merseburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-9435-1939-6

Editorships

  • (Ed.): The reservists of the Bundeswehr. Your story until 1990 . With a foreword by Hans Frank , Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-8132-0578-9 .
  • (Ed.): Misdroy, Wyk, Hemmelmark. Three Christian conservative boarding schools . On behalf of the association of Wyker, Hemmelmarker, Misdroyer e. V., Chronos, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931054-07-1 .
  • (Ed.): Army maneuvers of the Bundeswehr . In cooperation with the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy , Society for Military Economics, Dachau 2004, ISBN 3-925042-20-2 .
  • with Rüdiger Schmitt (Ed.): From Karl Brugmanns Jugenderinnerungen (= meeting reports of the philosophical-historical class [of the Austrian Academy of Sciences] . Vol. 786 / Publications on Iranian Studies . No. 49). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7001-6542-2 .

Contributions to edited volumes

  • National defense and public morals . In: Gerd Roellecke (Ed.): Public morality. Good and evil in observation through history, religion, economy, defense and law (= motifs, texts, materials . Vol. 59). Müller, Heidelberg 1991, ISBN 3-8114-3791-7 , p. 107 ff.
  • SI VIS PACEM PARA BELLUM or VIGILIA PRETIUM LIBERTATIS . In: Robert Buck (ed.): The cost of peace. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. Günter Kirchhoff . Society for Military Economics, Dachau 2002, ISBN 3-925042-19-9 , p. 81 ff.
  • Reservists in the Bundeswehr - their importance for defense planning to this day . In: Klaus-Jürgen Bremm , Hans-Hubertus Mack , Martin Rink (eds.): Decided for peace. 50 years of the Bundeswehr. 1955 to 2005 . Commissioned by the Military History Research Office , Rombach, Freiburg im Breisgau 2005, ISBN 3-7930-9438-3 , p. 231 ff.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 1: Adam - Fuhr . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2492-1 , pp. 261-262.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Rüdiger Schmitt , Gerhard Brugmann (ed.): From Karl Brugmanns Jugenderinnerungen (= publications on Iranian Studies . No. 49). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2009, ISBN 978-3-7001-6542-2 , p. 5.
  2. ↑ a b c d e The authors . In: Gerhard Brugmann (Ed.): The reservists of the Bundeswehr. Your story until 1990 . Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 1998, ISBN 3-8132-0578-9 , p. 375.
  3. ^ Konrad Murr: The fate of the class community A 1941 of the former Princely and State School St. Afra - A contribution to school history . In: sapere aude - Afranischer Bote 5/2008, pp. 13-17, here: p. 14.
  4. ^ Gerhard Brugmann (Ed.): Misdroy, Wyk, Hemmelmark. Three Christian conservative boarding schools. On behalf of the association of Wyker, Hemmelmarker, Misdroyer e. V., Chronos, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931054-07-1 . P. 412.
  5. ↑ a b See author information: Gerhard Brugmann: The endangered art of leading a troop . In: Europäische Wehrkunde 3/1985, p. 164.
  6. ^ John R. Galvin : Fighting the Cold War: A Soldier's Memoir (= American Warrior Series ). With a foreword by David H. Petraeus . University Press of Kentucky, Lexington 2015, ISBN 978-0-8131-6102-0 (epub), o. P.
  7. ^ 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. 504.
  8. ↑ Simon Küchler: Gerhard Brugmann, editor: Paths of a soldier - Heinz Gaedcke . In: Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift 12/2005, p. 32.
  9. ↑ Heinz Brill : The role of the reservists in the Cold War . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , August 28, 1999, p. 26; Hans-Ulrich Ernst : Gerhard Brugmann: The reservists of the Bundeswehr . In: Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift 2/1999, p. 48.
  10. ↑ a b G .: Symposium 2001 «Protection of Cultural Property» . In: Allgemeine Schweizerische Militärzeitschrift 3/2001, p. 16.
  11. ↑ Frank Nordhausen: The trace of the fire . In: Berliner Zeitung , July 19, 1999; Bureaucrats in the mud . In: Der Spiegel , August 16, 1999, No. 33, pp. 144 f.
  12. ↑ Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 154.
  13. ^ Edition published in 1990: High distinction . In: AKTIV current. Information from the regional group. Baden-Württemberg 2/1990, p. XXII; Deviating from this, “00.00.1989: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany” by: Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 1: Adam - Fuhr . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2492-1 , p. 262.
personal data
SURNAME Brugmann, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hengelo , Netherlands