Hans-Lothar Domröse

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Hans-Lothar Domröse (born December 28, 1952 in Hanover ) is a former general in the army of the Bundeswehr . In his last employment he was from December 14, 2012 to March 4, 2016 Commander in Chief of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum .

Military career

Promotions

Training and first uses

Domröse was born in 1952 as the son of the later lieutenant general of the Bundeswehr Lothar Domröse . After graduating from Wilhelm-Gymnasium (Braunschweig) , Domröse joined the Bundeswehr in 1973 as an officer candidate with the 23rd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Braunschweig. On April 1, 1975 he was made lieutenant . After studying economics in Hamburg , which he graduated with a degree in business administration in 1977, he was transferred to Lüneburg and served there as platoon leader and intelligence officer ( S2 ) in Panzergrenadierbataillon 82. In this role he was promoted to first lieutenant on October 20, 1977 . In 1980, appointed captain on October 1 of the same year, he took over the 2nd  company of the battalion as a company commander and led it for four years.

Service as a staff officer

From 1984 to 1986 Domröse completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . After completing the course, he took over the post of intelligence officer (G2) on the staff of the 11th Panzer Grenadier Division in Oldenburg from 1986 to 1988 and was appointed major on October 1, 1987 . Domröse stayed at the site and took over the post of operations officer (G3) from 1988 to 1989 with the 31st Panzer Grenadier Brigade, which was also stationed there .

Subsequently, Domröse was transferred to Bonn , where he served as a personal advisor (Group 23) to Department Head 2 (Foreign, Security and Development Policy) in the Federal Chancellery from 1989 to 1991 . In this capacity he was promoted to lieutenant colonel on October 15, 1990 .

In 1991 he switched back to a troop command, took over the Panzergrenadierbataillon 313 until 1993 and merged with the parachute battalion 271 to form the parachute battalion 313 in Varel . From 1993 to 1995 Domröse served as a consultant in the planning staff in the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense . Promoted to colonel on October 1, 1995 , from 1995 to 1998 he was posted abroad as head of department at the NATO headquarters SHAPE in Mons , Belgium .

Back in Germany, Domröse took over the post of Chief of Staff of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division / Wehrbereichskommando VII in Leipzig from 1998 to 2000 under the command of Major General Werner Widder . During this time he completed a foreign assignment as part of the 3rd German KFOR contingent in Prizren in Kosovo , where he was Chief of Staff of the Multinational Brigade South .

Service in the rank of general

General Hans-Lothar Domröse as Commander of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum at the ISAF Headquarters in Kabul, August 2014

From 2000 to 2004 Domröse was the commander of the 41st Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Torgelow . He coordinated a disaster control operation during the Elbe floods in 2002 . During this time he was appointed brigadier general on April 1, 2003 and was also head of the liaison office to the US Central Command in Tampa , Florida from January to April 2003, during the war in Iraq . Domröse was then transferred again to the ministry and served there from 2004 to 2006 as the deputy head of the staff Rear Admiral Wolfram Kühn , with whom he had completed the general staff course, in the command staff of the armed forces in Bonn.

From March 9, 2006 to January 10, 2008, Domröse, promoted to major general on April 1, 2006 , was the third in command of the Special Operations Division in Regensburg . He handed this command over to Hans-Werner Fritz and in January 2008 took over the post of Chief of Staff of the ISAF in Afghanistan from Bruno Kasdorf under the command of US General David D. McKiernan . After a year, in January 2009, he gave this command to the Italian Major General Marco Bertolini . He was then transferred to the Army Command in Koblenz in order to be prepared from January to September 2009 to take over command of the Eurocorps .

On September 6, 2009 Domröse was promoted to lieutenant general and on September 25, 2009 took over the post as commanding general of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg , on July 1, 2011 he was reassigned to the Army Command in preparation for his subsequent assignment. From October 17, 2011 to December 6, 2012 Domröse was in Brussels as the successor to Lieutenant General Roland Kather German Military Representative (DMV) in the NATO Military Committee and the Military Committee of the European Union (EUMC) . In December 2012, he was promoted to general and assumed command of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum . He gave up command on March 4, 2016 and retired on March 16, 2016 with a big tattoo .

Awards

Private

Domröse has been married since 1980 and has two grown sons. His father was Lieutenant General Lothar Domröse .

Web links

Wikiquote: Hans-Lothar Domröse  - Quotes
Commons : Hans-Lothar Domröse  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of high school graduates. Retrieved April 18, 2014.
  2. ↑ Hans Jürgen Küsters et al. (Ed.): Documents on Germany Policy, German Unity , Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag 1998, p. 1571.
  3. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. BMVg press and information staff, December 8, 2008, archived from the original on February 13, 2010 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Big tattoo: Federal Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen says goodbye to General Hans-Lothar Domröse. Press and Information Office of the Federal Ministry of Defense, March 11, 2016, accessed on March 11, 2016 .
  5. ↑ http://www.rp-online.de/politik/hans-lothar-domroese-leitet-den-afghanistan-abzug-aid-1.3119352
predecessor Office successor
Wolf-Dieter Langheld Commander of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum
2012–2016 		Salvatore Farina
personal data
SURNAME Domröse, Hans-Lothar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Major General of the Army of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover