Hans-Jörg Kuebart

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Lieutenant General Kuebart giving a speech on September 25, 1992 in Delmenhorst

Hans-Jörg Kuebart (born September 2, 1934 in Allenstein , East Prussia , † February 14, 2018 in Bad Honnef ) was a German lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr ( air force ). From 1983 to 1989 he was Commanding General of the Air Fleet Command and from 1991 to 1994 Inspector of the Air Force .

Military career

Hans-Jörg Kuebart joined the Federal Border Police in 1955 , before he switched to the Bundeswehr ( Army ) in 1956 , where he trained as a lieutenant in the armored force . In 1957 he switched to the Air Force and began pilot training in Landsberg am Lech and Fürstenfeldbruck on the North American T-6 , the Republic F-84 and the Lockheed T-33 .

From 1958 to 1964 was Kuebart pilot and later squadron commander at the Fighter Bomber Wing 33 in Büchel . Meanwhile promoted to captain , from 1964 to 1966 he took part in the general staff course of the air force at the command academy of the German armed forces . As Major Kuebart was subsequently A3 - staff officer in command 3rd Air Division . From 1968 to 1972 he was group commander of the flying group and then commodore of the fighter-bomber squadron 34 "Allgäu" . During this time he was promoted to colonel . From 1972 to 1974 Kuebart was department head at the air fleet command in the Cologne air force barracks Wahn . From 1977 he was posted to Madrid as a military attaché . He then returned to Germany as Head of Division in the Air Force Command . 1979 Kuebart was appointed brigadier general and military attaché in London . This he remained until 1981. After that he was commander of the 4th Air Force Division in Aurich until 1983 with the rank of major general . After his promotion to lieutenant general , he became the commanding general of the air fleet command in Cologne-Wahn . From 1989 to 1991 he was Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Allied Air Forces in Central Europe .

On April 1, 1991, Lieutenant General Hans-Jörg Kuebart was appointed 9th Inspector of the Air Force by the then Federal Defense Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg . He held this position until September 30, 1994.

Private

His older brother Bernd Kuebart, also a military pilot, was killed in 1962 when a Starfighter formation crashed in Nörvenich.

Hans-Jörg Kuebart was married and had three sons. Jan Kuebart is also a jet pilot and as Brigadier General Head of Development and Planning in the Air Force Command , Arnt Kuebart is in the Air Defense Missile Service (Luftwaffe) and as Colonel Commodore of the Air Defense Missile Squadron 1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hans Jörg Kuebart, obituary notice. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. February 17, 2018, accessed February 20, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kuebart, Hans-Jörg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kuebart, Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General and Inspector of the Air Force
DATE OF BIRTH September 2, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2018
Place of death Bad Honnef