Hans-Wilhelm von Bornstaedt
Hans-Wilhelm von Bornstaedt (born February 25, 1928 on the family estate Relzow those von Bornstaedt in Western Pomerania) is a former German officer in the Bundeswehr .
1944 Flak helper, in 1945 at the age of 17 an infantryman as a worker in the Wehrmacht . After the end of the war, agricultural apprenticeship, training as a technician and then development technician in "Ultron Factory of Electromedical Devices". Technician and branch manager in a radio and television specialist shop. Most recently aircraft electronics technician in the new Lufthansa shipyard in Hamburg-Fuhlsbüttel.
1956 Joined the Bundeswehr as an officer candidate in the Air Force. Training as a general staff officer at the Technical Academy of the Air Force and the Command Academy of the Bundeswehr . First employment as a general staff officer in the newly established planning staff department in the air force command staff as "Consultant for long-term planning air defense and telecommunications and electronics". There conception and initiation of the trial operation of the first operational command systems with computer support "DISTEL" and "EIFEL" in the Tactical Operations Center (TOC) of the Air Force in Karlsruhe. Further employment as deputy department head A6 in the Air Force Group Command South in Karlsruhe, and then as department commander and position commander of the Schleswig radar station. International training at the "US Armed Forces Staff College" in Norfolk, Virginia, USA. Then head of the “Armaments Planning” division in the headquarters of the armed forces in Bonn. Alternating between ministry and troop assignments, head of department and chief of staff at the Air Force Office in Cologne-Wahn. Back to the ministry as "Head of the Planning Department" in the command staff of the armed forces (drafting and political approval of the first "15 year armed forces plan of the Bundeswehr"). Then back to the troops as commander and commander.
In 1976 he was promoted to Brigadier General, one of the first generals without a Wehrmacht past, and in 1982 to Major General . From 1982 to 1984 he was commander of the 2nd German Air Force Division and then until his retirement in 1987 he was in command of Defense Division II of the Bundeswehr in the states of Lower Saxony and Bremen.
Awards
- 1979 Knight of Honor Cross of the Order of St. John
- 1984 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
- 1987 Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
- 1987 Military Medal WB II
- 1994 Legal Knight of the Order of St. John
Individual evidence
Bibliographic information from the German National Library
- Clemens Range "WARRIOR The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr" 2013 Transmiles Media Verlag
- Genealogical manual of the nobility, CA Starke Verlag
- Adelslexikon, CA Starke Verlag
- Katja Gäbler and Fabian Wehner, "Aftershocks, encounters with German life stories of the 20th century", Duncker & Humblot - Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bornstaedt, Hans-Wilhelm von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer in the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 25, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Western Pomerania |