Gerhard Ernst-Peter Klaffus

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Gerhard Ernst-Peter Klaffus (born February 3, 1964 in Göttingen ) is a Brigadier General of the Army of the Bundeswehr . He has been a defense attaché on the military attaché staff of the German embassy in Paris since September 1, 2020 .

Brigadier General Gerhard Klaffus (left) assuming responsibility for the TAAC-N from Brigadier General Wolf-Jürgen Stahl on August 21, 2018. In the middle, the commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command , Lieutenant General Erich Pfeffer , and the deputy commander of the Resolute Support Mission , Lieutenant General Richard Cripwell (UK).

Military career

Training and first uses

Promotions

Klaffus joined the Bundeswehr in 1983 as an officer candidate with the 542 Jägerbataillon in Bexbach . He completed his training as an officer in the Panzer Grenadier Troop and studied economics and organizational sciences at the Helmut Schmidt University of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg from 1984 to 1987 . This was followed by assignments as platoon leader (1988 to 1990), S2 officer (1990 to 1991) and company commander (1991 to 1992) with the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 132 in Wetzlar . A second assignment as a company commander led him from 1992 to 1994 to the 32nd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Nienburg / Weser . Subsequently, from 1994 to 1996, Klaffus was employed as a lecture hall manager in officer training at the armored forces school in Munster . From 1996 to 1998 he completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, and then from 1999 to 2000 the French general staff training in Paris , France .

Service as a staff officer

After this preparatory training, Klaffus was first employed as a staff officer from 2000 to 2002, also to Paris, where he was employed as a deputy army attaché in the German embassy . From 2002 to 2003 he was employed as a staff officer in the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division in Neubrandenburg . From 2004 to 2006 he was in command of the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 182 in Bad Segeberg . From 2006 to 2009 he was employed as a ministerial advisor in the Federal Ministry of Defense , where he was responsible, among other things, for drafting mandates for the German ISAF forces. This was followed by a transfer to Mons ( Belgium ), where he was employed from 2009 to 2011 as office manager for the Chief of Staff Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (at that time Generals Karl-Heinz Lather and Manfred Lange ). From 2011 to 2012 Klaffus was a course participant at the Center des Hautes Etudes Militaires (CHEM) in Paris, before he was deployed as deputy commander and commander of the German units of the Franco-German brigade in Müllheim (Baden) from 2013 to 2015 . From 2015 to 2018 Klaffus was a liaison officer for the Federal Presidents Joachim Gauck and Frank-Walter Steinmeier .

Service as a general

On August 21, 2018, Klaffus succeeded Brigadier General Wolf-Jürgen Stahl , Commander Train Advise and Assist Command North (TAAC-N) and contingent leader of the German Resolute Support contingent in Mazar-i-Sharif ( Afghanistan ). Associated with this was the appointment as brigadier general. He handed this post to Brigadier General Jürgen Brötz in August 2019 and was then prepared for employment as a military attaché . On September 1, 2020, he became the successor of Brigadier General Werner Albl , Defense Attaché in the military attaché staff of the German Embassy in Paris .

Assignments abroad

  • Nov. 2003 - May 2004 SFOR G3 HQ DEU-ITA Battle Group, Sarajevo , Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Jan. – June 2013 ISAF Deputy Chief of Staff Stability, Regional Command North, Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan
  • Aug. 2018 – Aug. 2019 Resolute Support Mission, Commander TAAC North, RS, Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan

Private

Klaffus has two brothers (Manfred and Werner, he is a colonel in the army and commander of the UN training center of the Bundeswehr ). His father, Ernst Klaffus , was Lieutenant General in the German Army until 1994. Klaffus is married and has four children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brigade under new command. In: Weiler newspaper. Verlagshaus Jaumann, July 19, 2013, accessed on August 23, 2018 .
  2. ^ Volker Münch: Change of command in the brigade. In: Badische Zeitung. August 3, 2015, accessed August 23, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - August 2018. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and Information Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense, August 15, 2018, accessed on August 23, 2018 .
  4. ^ German Leadership Transfers Authority at Train, Advise and Assist Command-North. In: https://rs.nato.int . PAO Resolute Support Mission, August 22, 2018, accessed August 23, 2018 .
  5. ^ Gerd Portugall: Personnel changes in top military positions. In: https://www.behoerden-spiegel.de/ . September 25, 2019, accessed February 12, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Klaffus, Gerhard Ernst-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Army Officer, Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd February 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen