Gerhard Hewera

Gerhard Hewera (born June 22, 1958 in Bad Staffelstein ) is a Brigadier General of the Air Force of the German Armed Forces and since February 2017 commander of support groups in the Air Force Command in Cologne .

Military career

Hewera joined the German Armed Forces in 1977 and completed an officer training course at the Air Force officers' school from 1978 to 1979 . He then studied mechanical engineering in Neubiberg and then became lecture director at the Air Force Technical School 3 in Faßberg .

After various assignments, Hewera completed the general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg from 1992 to 1994 and subsequently became head of the crisis reaction forces and deputy department head in the air force support command in Cologne. This was followed by assignments as department head 4, operational logistics in the Air Force Command North in Kalkar , as a consultant for principles and conception of logistics and deputy head of department in the Federal Ministry of Defense , command staff of the Air Force II1, Bonn , before he became the commander of the Air Force Maintenance Regiment 2 in Diepholz from 2003 to 2005 .

After that, Hewera was again used in the Air Force management staff as head of department for central tasks and events, press and public relations and controlling. In 2008 he became Chief of Staff of the Air Force Weapons System Command, in 2013 Deputy Commander of the Basic Military Organization Associations in the Air Force Support Associations Command and in 2015 Commander of the Air Force Technical Training Center in Faßberg. On February 1, 2017, Hewera, as the successor to Brigadier General Stefan Lüth , became the commander of the support units in the air force command in Cologne. In this post he was promoted to brigadier general in June 2018.

Private

Hewera is married and has two children.

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Military vita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - February 2017. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and Information Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense, February 9, 2017, accessed on July 9, 2018 .