Gerhard W. Back

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Lieutenant General Back (center) with US General Mark A. Volcheff (left) and Mayor Klaus Layes, 2002

Gerhard W. Back (born December 10, 1944 in Mannheim ) is a retired general . D. the Air Force . He was Inspector of the Air Force from 2001 to 2003 and Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum in the Netherlands from 2004 to 2007 .

Military career

Back entered the service of the Air Force in 1965 and completed officer training and, in the United States, training as a jet pilot . During this assignment he was in 1967 to lieutenant and in 1969 to lieutenant promoted. From 1969 to 1976 he was an operational pilot on the type RF-4E "Phantom" and an operational officer in Reconnaissance Wing 52 in Leck . During this time he was promoted to captain in 1972 . Then he served until 1978 as an orderly officer with the Inspector of the Air Force in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . Promoted to major in 1978 , he completed the 23rd general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg by 1980 and then served, promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1980 , from July 1, 1980 to March 10, 1983 as squadron captain of the 2nd squadron of reconnaissance squadron 52 .

From 1983 to 1984 Back served as a consultant for basic operational matters ( staff department III 1) in the command staff of the Air Force and then until 1986 as department head (A3) in the command of the 1st Air Force Division in Meßstetten . Then he was used from 1986 to 1988 as a deputy commodore in the reconnaissance squadron 51 "Immelmann" in Bremgarten . After he was promoted to colonel in 1988 , he took over this association as a commodore. He held this post until 1990 when he took over the post of department head for planning and operations in the air fleet command in the Cologne air force barracks Wahn .

Back was promoted to Brigadier General in 1992 and accompanied the preparations for the withdrawal of Russian troops in Berlin until 1994 as deputy head of the German Liaison Command to the Soviet Armed Forces in Germany. From 1993 to 1994 he took part in a course at the National Defense College in Canada , was promoted to major general in 1994 and was in command of the air transport command in Münster until 1999 . After he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1999 , he took over the post of commanding general of the Air Force Command North in Kalkar until 2000 . In October 2000, Back became Deputy Inspector of the Air Force and succeeded the Inspector of the Air Force , Lieutenant General Rolf Portz on April 1, 2001. He held this post until December 2003. Back then in 2004 was promoted to general and assumed in January of the same year as commander in the Allied Forces North ( AFNORTH ) of NATO . This headquarters in Brunssum , to which all NATO land and air forces in Northern and Central Europe are subordinate, was then renamed to today's Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum as part of further restructuring . On January 26, 2007 Back gave this command to General Egon Ramms and went into retirement.

Back is married and has two sons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reconnaissance Wing 52 Chronicle. 1st ed. 1993, p. 62.
  2. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Press release. Berlin January 2, 2007 ( PDF ( Memento of February 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 4, 2016]).
predecessor Office successor
Sir Jack Deverell Commander of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum
2004–2007 		Egon Ramms

Annotation:

  1. ^ Still as Commander in Chief Allied Forces North Europe , reclassification as of July 1, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Back, Gerhard W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Air Force General of the Bundeswehr; 12. Air Force Inspector
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim