Gerhard Schulz (General)

Gerhard Schulz (* 1950 ) is a German Brigadier General in the Luftwaffe a. D. Most recently, he was General Center for Air Force Development in the Air Force Office.

Life

Schulz joined the German Air Force as a conscript in 1970 and became an officer candidate . From 1973 to 1976 he studied electrical engineering (graduate engineer) at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Neubiberg. In 1976 he completed his training as a fire control officer on the HAWK weapon system at the Air Force Missile School in Fort Bliss , Texas.

It was then used in various ways, until he completed the General Staff Course (L) at the Command Academy of the Federal Armed Forces (FüAkBw) in Hamburg from 1983 to 1985 , for which he was awarded the "General von Clausewitz Medal of Honor" from the Clausewitz Society . He was then stationed with an anti-aircraft missile battalion and in 1988 was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn as a policy officer for air defense planning , worked at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium and on the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense . Later he was u. a. Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the 1st Air Force Division in Karlsruhe. In 2001 he became head of department in the BMVg.

From 2005 to 2008 he was commander of the Air Force Officers' School (OSLw) in Fürstenfeldbruck. In 2008 he went to the Allied Joint Force Command Naples (JFC Naples) in Naples, Italy and from 2011 to 2012 was the General Center for the Development of the Air Force in the Air Force Office (LwA) in Cologne.

He retired as Brigadier General in 2012. He was 2nd chairman of the Gneisenau Society of Officers Debt of the Air Force e. V. in Fürstenfeldbruck.

Awards

• 1985: Medal of Honor General von Clausewitz

Web links

• Gerhard Schulz ( Memento from May 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) at the Gneisenau Society (Vita)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military positions. BMVg press and information staff, April 14, 2008, archived from the original on June 2, 2008 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .