Gunnar Brügner

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Gunnar C. Brügner (born November 10, 1967 in Wittershausen / Rottweil district ) is a Brigadier General of the Army of the German Armed Forces and has been in command of the 37th Panzer Grenadier Brigade since April 27, 2018 .

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from the Albeck-Gymnasium am Sulz am Neckar , Brügner joined the Bundeswehr in 1987 as a trainee officer in the 292 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Immendingen . From 1989 he was used as a platoon leader in the 43rd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Göttingen . With the completion of officer training he took in 1990, the study of electrical engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg on which he in 1994 as a graduate engineer graduated. Another assignment followed as a platoon leader in the 12th Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Osterode / Harz . A year later, in 1995, Bruges became company commander of 2./Panzergrenadierbataillon 12. After three years in this post he was transferred to the armored troop school in Munster , where he became lecture director for the training of candidate officers of the armored infantry. From 2000 to 2002 he took part in the 43rd Army General Staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

Service as a staff officer

After completing the general staff training course, Brügner was initially employed as a department head in the armed forces office , then as a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces base, and later in the armed forces management staff at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . In 2004, he was employed as Head of Department G3 ( Operations Management / Training / Exercise ) in the staff of Panzer Brigade 21 in Augustdorf . From 2005 to 2006 Brügner took part in the Command and Staff Course at the Canadian Forces College, Toronto ( Canada ). This was accompanied by a master’s degree with a Master of Defense Studies degree at the Royal Military College in Kingston , ( Ontario , Canada). In 2006, Brügner was assigned a troop command as commander of the 212 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Augustdorf. In 2009 he gave this up again and was then employed as Desk Officer Plans in the J3 department, later Joint Assessment Branch in the Allied Joint Force Command of NATO in Brunssum ( Netherlands ). Two years later, in 2011, another ministerial assignment followed as a consultant in the command staff of the Army , Department Army Development , then in the Planning Department , Department Future Development Land & Sanitation , in the Federal Ministry of Defense, at the headquarters in Bonn. In 2012 he became head of the division for basic matters in operational tasks in the Army Command in Koblenz and after the command had moved to Strausberg . In 2014 he was reassigned to the Allied Joint Force Command in Brunssum, where he was used as Branch Head Plans for the J5 department. In 2016 he was transferred to Berlin, where he was employed as head of the department ( situation management, evaluation and control ) in the armed forces management department .

Service as a general

On April 27, 2018, Brügner took over command of Panzergrenadierbrigade 37 in Frankenberg as the successor to Brigadier General Ruprecht Horst von Butler . Here he was also appointed Brigadier General in December 2018.

Assignments abroad

  • 2008 ISAF Commander of the Quick Reaction Force of ISAF RC North, Mazar-e Sharif , Afghanistan
  • 2010 ISAF Desk Officer Afghanistan Assessment Group HQ ISAF, Kabul , Afghanistan

Private

Brügner is married and has one daughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 37th Panzer Grenadier Brigade.Retrieved December 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Saxon soldiers take over the leadership of the NATO reaction force | Free press - world. Retrieved February 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Panzergrenadierbrigade 37 is under new command. In: http://www.deutschesheer.de/ . PIZ German Army, April 27, 2018, accessed on January 16, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Gunnar Brügner. In: NWZ-Online. July 1, 2008, accessed January 16, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Ingrid Müller: "They fired with everything they had". In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 3, 2008, accessed January 16, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Brügner, Gunnar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brügner, Gunnar C.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, brigadier general of the army
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Wittershausen , Rottweil district