Gerhard Kemmler

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Gerhard Kemmler (born December 25, 1948 in Lage , Lippe district ) is a retired Brigadier General . D. the air force of the German armed forces .

Military career

Kemmler joined the Bundeswehr in 1968 as an officer candidate .

After training as an officer, he was trained in the Pershing weapon system in Landsberg am Lech and in the USA . From 1971 to 1981 he served as a launch area leader and operations officer in Missile Squadron 2 in Geilenkirchen . From 1981 to 1983 Kemmler completed general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . From 1983 to 1985 he served as a G 3 operations staff officer at the Territorial Command North in Mönchengladbach . After this time he returned to the leadership academy in Hamburg as a lecturer and tutor .

From 1989 to 1991 he was battalion commander in the task force of missile squadron 1 (Pershing weapon system) in Landsberg / Lech. Thereafter, until 1994, he worked as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in the air force command staff .

In 1994 , when he was promoted to colonel, he was transferred to NATO headquarters in Brussels , where he was mainly concerned with strategic planning.

Back in Germany in 1996, Kemmler became Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the 3rd Air Force Division in Berlin. Thereafter, from 1999 to 2002, he was employed as Head of Unit for Transatlantic Security Policy and NATO Affairs in the BMVg's planning staff in Bonn and Berlin.

In 2002 he returned to NATO as Brigadier General and was responsible for the current operations of NATO and the European Union (Balkan operations Concordia and Operation Althea ) at the military headquarters in Mons ( SHAPE ) .

In 2005 he took over the management of the military policy department at the German EU representation in Brussels.

In his last military service, Kemmler was Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff at the Command Operative Command Air Force in Kalkar . During this time he was deployed from September 2009 to March 2010 as the successor to Brigadier General Gerd Bischof as commander of the German contingent EUFOR and Chief of Staff at the EUFOR headquarters in Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of Operation Althea. Kemmler retired on December 31, 2010.

Voluntary work

Kemmler volunteers in the Society for Security Policy (GSP) as state chairman for the area of ​​North Rhine-Westphalia.