Hartmut Bagger

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Hartmut Bagger in March 1991

Hartmut Bagger (born July 17, 1938 in Braunsberg , East Prussia ) is a retired German general . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . He was inspector of the army from 1994 to 1996 and inspector general of the Bundeswehr until 1999 .

Military career

Training and first commands

In 1945, Bagger had to leave East Prussia with his mother and his younger brother on a refugee route . He spent his childhood near Celle . After graduating from a grammar school of the Hermannsburg Mission , he went to the Bundeswehr in 1958 and was trained as an officer candidate for the Panzer Grenadier Troop. He was appointed lieutenant in 1960 and worked as a platoon leader and telecommunications officer with the Panzergrenadierbataillon 82 in Lüneburg and as a lecture hall and orderly officer at the Army Officer School I in Hanover . From 1965 to 1969 Bagger served as captain and company commander in the Lüneburg battalion . He then completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr until 1971 . Then he was promoted to Major in Neumünster to Panzer Brigade 18 and transferred as General Staff Officer for Logistics and Operations ( G4 , G3). He then taught at the leadership academy as a lecturer in military policy. He then completed an Armed Forces Staff College Course in Norfolk , Virginia .

From 1976 to 1978 he led the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 51 in Rotenburg an der Fulda as a lieutenant colonel . He was then transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense and served as a consultant until 1980. From April 1980 to September 1982 Bagger served as Colonel and Chief of Staff of the 3rd Panzer Division in Buxtehude under the command of Major General Franz-Joachim von Rodde . At the Hamburg Leadership Academy he was then head of the security policy specialist group until 1984. From October 1, 1984 to April 1988, he was in command of the 7th Panzer Grenadier Brigade .

Service in the rank of general

Transferred to Koblenz and appointed Brigadier General, he served from April 1, 1988 to November 22, 1990 as Chief of Staff of the III. Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Helge Hansen . He was then transferred to Veitshochheim and, as major general , was commander of the 12th Panzer Division until March 1992 .

After Helge Hansen became inspector of the army on March 1, 1992 , he made Bagger his deputy on April 1, 1992. At this post, Bagger was appointed lieutenant general. After two years, Hansen was designated for the NATO post of Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe and Bagger became his successor on March 21, 1994. He led the structural changes in the course of Heeresstruktur V on. He advocated the conscript army and emphasized that "half of the junior officers, [and] almost two thirds of the NCOs" are recruited from the basic military service of conscripts.

After two years at the head of the army, Bagger handed over his post to Helmut Willmann on February 6, 1996, and on February 8, appointed General, he took over the position of General Inspector from General Klaus Naumann . Naumann became chairman of the NATO military committee . Bagger retired on March 31, 1999.

He then became President of the Society for Defense and Security Policy , but resigned from the office in 2000 due to internal quarrels.

Private

Bagger lives in Meckenheim (Rhineland), is married and has two sons. The son Thomas is a diplomat. Bagger plays the piano ready for a concert and has repeatedly performed as a soloist or together with ensembles of the Bundeswehr .

Honors

Web links

Commons : Hartmut Bagger  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 10 x Hartmut Bagger (Focus.de, April 2, 1994)
  2. ↑ Apology from the BMVg according to ARD report
personal data
SURNAME Bagger, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General and Inspector General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunsberg , East Prussia