Hans-Erich Antoni
Hans-Erich Antoni (born January 24, 1954 in Lower Saxony ) is a major general a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . From January 1, 2013 to January 14, 2016, he was the first commander of the Bundeswehr logistics command in Erfurt .
Military career
Training and first uses
Antoni joined the Bundeswehr in 1974 as an officer candidate for the armored forces . After training as an officer , studying at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , which he graduated as a qualified engineer, and his first assignments, he served from 1982 to 1985 as captain and company commander of the 2nd company of the 63rd Panzer Battalion in Bad Arolsen . Between 1986 and 1987 he completed the Long Armored Infantry Course in Bovington, England . Back in Germany, Antoni completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg from 1988 to 1990 and was then promoted to major .
Service as a staff officer
As a staff officer , Antoni served in various staff positions as a logistics staff officer ( G4 ) as well as an operations staff officer (G3) and chief of staff of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 4 under the command of Rainer Fell . In 1994 Antoni took over command of the tank battalion 104 in Pfreimd while being promoted to lieutenant colonel . Another assignment took him to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served as a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS).
In 1996 he was transferred back to the Hamburg Leadership Academy, where he served as a member of the management staff and as tutor of the National General Staff Course (LGAN) until 2000. In 2000 Antoni took over the post of General Staff Officer for Logistics (G4) in the staff of the IV Corps under the command of Rainer Schuwirth and Friedrich Riechmann .
In 2001 Antoni was transferred to Koblenz , where he again served under Rainer Fell, this time in the Army Support Command in Department II, Armaments Planning. After the command was disbanded, he moved again to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn in 2003, where he was head of the armaments division in the Army Command (FüH II).
Service as a general
On May 1, 2005, Colonel Antoni was given command of the logistics brigade 200 in Tauberbischofsheim . He held this command until August 30, 2006. After further restructuring in the German Army , however, this brigade was also disbanded, so that Antoni only gave the command for the final dissolution to his deputy. During this deployment , Antoni was appointed Brigadier General and completed a foreign assignment in Kosovo within the framework of KFOR , where he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations in Pristina .
In September 2006 he took over the post of Head of Staff Department II (planning, armaments and use, logistics) in the command staff of the army under the chief of staff, Werner Freers . He handed over this post to Hans-Joachim Fischer in September 2008 .
Antoni was appointed major general on October 1, 2008, to Afghanistan , where he served as Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics under the US Generals David D. McKiernan and Stanley A. McChrystal within the framework of the ISAF in Kabul . After 14 months he returned to Germany and was transferred to the leadership academy to prepare for his new assignment. In October 2010 Antoni was the first German to take over the position of Director Resources at the Joint Force Command Headquarters, Brunssum in the Netherlands within the NATO command structure . From January 1, 2013 to January 14, 2016, he was the first commander of the Bundeswehr logistics command in Erfurt. Major General Antoni was retired on January 31, 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Press release. Berlin September 21, 2006 ( PDF ( Memento from October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
- ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. BMVg press and information staff, September 15, 2008, archived from the original on October 1, 2009 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
- ↑ Change of leadership at the logistics command of the Bundeswehr. www.welt.de, January 16, 2016, accessed May 5, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Antoni, Hans-Erich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Major General of the Army of the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lower Saxony |