Hans-Henning von Sandrart

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Hans-Henning von Sandrart (born July 21, 1933 in Ambrosetti , Argentina , † July 26, 2013 ) was a retired general . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . He was from 1984 to 1987, the tenth inspector of the army and then took over from 1987 to 1991 as commander, the Allied Forces Central Europe of NATO .

Life

Family and education

Hans-Henning von Sandrart comes from a Flemish aristocratic family whose male ancestors were closely connected to the military career. His grandfather Karl was a major general , his father was a colonel and his mother Eva was the daughter of General Föst. The von Sandrart family left Germany after the First World War and emigrated to Argentina, where Hans-Henning von Sandrart was also born.

In 1937 the family came back to Germany. 1953 put Hans-Henning von Sandrart in Bremen-Vegesack his High School and worked for a short time on a shipyard , then his study of jurisprudence and political science in Freiburg take. Since 1961 he was married to Dorothee geb. Lueder (daughter of a Brigadier General) and had three children with her: Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart ( Major General , since April 2018 Commander of the 1st Armored Division), Franziska von Pachelbel (married to Bernd von Pachelbel) and Felicitas von Wietersheim (married to Mark von Wietersheim ).

Military career

Entry into service and training

On January 2, 1956, von Sandrart was one of the first volunteers in the newly created Bundeswehr in 1955 to take up service in Andernach . He began his service as an officer candidate for the artillery force and was made a lieutenant in 1957 . From 1959 to 1964 he served as the battery chief in a battalion of the 33rd Panzer Brigade in Lingen . This was followed by general staff training , first from 1965 to 1966 at the command academy of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and then in 1967, appointed major , at the British Staff College in Camberley .

Back in the Federal Republic, Sandrart was transferred to Koblenz and served in the local 14th Panzer Brigade as an operations officer ( G3 ). During this time he played a key role in the development of Army Service Regulations 100/1 (TF, troop command). When he was promoted to lieutenant colonel , he took over the 25th Panzer Artillery Battalion in Braunschweig on March 29, 1971, and led this until 1973.

Staff assignments

After this troop command, Sandrart was promoted to colonel and transferred to the NATO headquarters SHAPE in Mons in Belgium . Here he replaced the later General Inspector Wolfgang Altenburg as a staff officer for fundamental nuclear issues. The knowledge acquired in Belgium predestined him for the following use. In 1975 he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served until 1977 as the head of the division for military-political foundations, whose area of ​​responsibility included the development of military-political principles and nuclear deterrence . In this position he was one of the direct assistants of the then Defense Minister Georg Leber ( SPD ) and accompanied him to all meetings of the nuclear planning group .

In October 1977 Sandrart was appointed Brigadier General and on the 1st of the month took over the management of the military-political department of the German NATO mission in Brussels and was also an advisor to Defense Ministers Leber and Hans Apel (SPD). Exactly three years later, on October 1, 1980, Sandrart, as major general in Oldenburg , took over command of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division from Major General Meinhard Glanz . As a division commander, he led this large formation until 1983, during which time he implemented the reforms of Army Structure IV .

On April 1, 1983, Sandrart was promoted to lieutenant general and again transferred to the NATO headquarters SHAPE, this time as deputy chief of staff. Here he experienced the Kießling affair with the German Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe Günter Kießling . A year and a half later, on October 1, 1984, Sandrart was transferred back to Bonn, where he took over the post of inspector of the army from Meinhard Glanz, from whom he had already taken over the Oldenburg 11th Panzer Grenadier Division four years earlier . He handed this office over to Lieutenant General Henning von Ondarza on September 30, 1987, and was then promoted to General in Brunssum in the Netherlands , where on October 1, 1987, he assumed supreme command of NATO's Allied Forces Central Europe . On September 30, 1991, he handed this post over to Henning von Ondarza again and finally retired.

After retirement

After his retirement , the general a. D. Among other things, a working group for Ukrainian generals on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Defense for seven years . On March 22, 2007, Sandrart inaugurated the "Andernach Memorial Site" during a ceremony at the Army Officers' School . In the presence of many “Andernach” people were reminded of the call-up of the first volunteers for the German armed forces in 1956, including him, and thus of the birth of the German army.

He was u. a. Member of the Clausewitz Society .

Honors

Publications (excerpt)

  • Ten years leadership academy of the Bundeswehr

Author: Gerhard Schröder, in addition to reflections on the development of the academy and training work, the book contains five annual papers by graduates of the management academy, so u. a. also from Major i. G. Hans-Henning von Sandrart: "The increase in the earth's population up to the year 2000 as a military policy problem".

  • Leadership ethics and leadership responsibility, lecture Clausewitzforum, April 18, 1998
  • German Defense and Force Structure Planning, in: Taylor, Trevor (Ed.), Reshaping European Defense, Royal Institute of Affairs, London, pp. 29–44, 1994 (co-author)
  • European security: A German view, in: Internationale Defense Review, March 1992

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ [1] Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - October 2017. Retrieved on October 12, 2017.
  2. ↑ Manfred Eisele: What can Clausewitz give politicians and soldiers today? . In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2008 . Volume 4, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810794-3-2 , p. 103.
predecessor Office successor
Leopold Chalupa Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe
1987–1991 		Henning from Ondarza
personal data
SURNAME Sandrart, Hans-Henning von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Ambrosetti (Santa Fe) , Santa Fe Province , Argentina
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 2013