Hans-Otto Budde

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Lieutenant General Budde (2006)

Hans-Otto Budde (born March 6, 1948 in Kirchohsen ) is a lieutenant general a. D. of the Army of the Bundeswehr and was the 17th Inspector of the Army from March 2004 to March 24, 2010 .

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from high school, on October 3, 1966, Budde joined the Bundeswehr as a paratrooper candidate and first served with the 313 paratrooper battalion in Wildeshausen . By 1972 he completed officer training at the army officer schools in Hamburg , Hanover and Munich and was promoted to lieutenant in April 1969 . From 1969 to 1974 he served in the same battalion, later renamed Fallschirmjägerbataillon 272, as platoon leader and intelligence officer ( S2 ). Subsequently, he took over the 3rd company of the Wildeshausener battalion as company commander until 1978 . During this employment he was promoted to captain in April 1975 .

From 1978 to 1980 Budde completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and then served for two years as a staff officer for communications (G2) in the staff of the 1st Airborne Division in Bruchsal . He was promoted to major in October 1981 . From 1982 to 1983 Budde attended the United States General Staff Course at the Combined General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas .

Back in Germany, Budde took over the post of Operations Staff Officer (G3) in the staff of the 31st Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Oldenburg from 1983 to 1986 . In May 1986 Budde was promoted to lieutenant colonel, took over command of the 82nd Panzergrenadier Battalion in Lüneburg and led it until 1988. This deployment of the troops was followed by a two-year period of service in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served from 1988 as an advisor in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS) and in the personnel department (P III) of Federal Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg ( CDU ). After his promotion to Colonel in 1990, Budde's work in the Ministry was interrupted by a year-long assignment as Chief of Staff of the 5th Panzer Division in Diez . From 1991 to 1995, again in Bonn, he served as head of department in the personnel department.

Service in the rank of general

In 1995, Budde, in October to brigadier general appointed command of the French-German Brigade in Müllheim and led it until 1997. In this use, it was in January and July 1997, commander of the Multinational Brigade Center of SFOR in camp Rajlovac in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

After this foreign assignment , Budde was transferred to Geltow near Potsdam and served there from 1997 to 2001 as Chief of Staff of the IV Corps under Lieutenant General Hans-Peter von Kirchbach and Rainer Schuwirth . He was then appointed major general in June 2001 and commanded the Special Operations Division in Regensburg until 2002 . From 2002 to 2004 he served as chief of staff in the command staff of the army under Gert Gudera . On March 4, 2004, Budde, appointed Lieutenant General in April, took over the post of Army Inspector , which had become vacant after Gudera's resignation.

Budde handed over his office to Major General Werner Freers on March 24, 2010 and was retired as part of a major tattoo by the Federal Minister of Defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg .

Budde has been awarded the Bundeswehr Cross of Honor in Gold , the SFOR Bundeswehr Medal , the Legion of Merit (Commander - "Commander's Cross") , the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur and, since 2009, the 1st Class Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

He is married, has a son and a daughter and is a Protestant . His daughter Annika is also a medical officer in the Bundeswehr.

Viewpoints

Even before he took office, Budde called for a new type of soldier to deviate from the type of citizen in uniform : "We need the archaic fighter and the one who can wage high-tech war."

See also

Web links

Commons : Hans-Otto Budde  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Winkel: Bundeswehr needs archaic fighters . In: Die Welt from February 29, 2004.
personal data
SURNAME Budde, Hans-Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general and inspector of the army
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Emmerthal -Kirchohsen