Hartmut Olboeter

Hartmut Olboeter (born January 18, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer and lieutenant general ret. D. He was in command of the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy in Hamburg and the NATO Defense College in Rome.

Life

Education

Olboeter was born in Berlin in 1940. He graduated in 1958 High School in Crailsheim and studied afterwards until 1964 law . In 1964 he passed the 1st state examination. In 1975, he was at Gunther Küchenhoff at the Faculty of Law at the University of Würzburg to Dr. jur. PhD.

Military background

From 1964 he was trained as a military officer in the Air Force . In 1966 he was transferred to the Air Force Training Regiment 1 in Wentorf, first as platoon leader , then as S1 (staff department personnel). From 1968 to 1971 he was lecture hall director, company commander and chief inspection officer at the Luftwaffe officers' school in Fürstenfeldbruck. From 1971 to 1973 he completed the 16th general staff course (L) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. From 1973 to 1975 he was Deputy Air Force Attaché at the German Embassy in Rome. From 1975 to 1977 he was an advisor to the Air Force Command (Fü L) in Bonn. In 1977 he became adjutant to the inspector general of the Bundeswehr, General Harald Wust . 1979/80 he graduated from the NATO Defense College in Rome. In 1980 he became a consultant and in 1981 head of division at the German military representative in the NATO military committee in Rome. From 1984 to 1986 he was the commander of functional and special courses at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. From 1986 to 1989 he worked as head of department in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn and in 1989/90 as head of department Fü L I in the command staff of the Air Force (Fü L). On December 1, 1990 he became commander of the Air Force Training Command (LwAusbKdo) in Cologne and from July 1, 1993 to January 26, 1996, he was then commander of the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

After the news magazine Der Spiegel announced at the end of 1997 that on January 24, 1995, during Olboeter's time in command, the right-wing terrorist and Holocaust denier Manfred Roeder at the invitation of around 25-30 members of the academy on the subject of "The relocation of Russia -Deutschen in den Raum Königsberg ”gave a lecture through his organization“ German-Russian Joint Work ”, Olboeter applied to the Federal Minister of Defense for the provisional release from his duties until the issue of supervision was clarified. Defense Minister Volker Rühe complied with this request on December 8, 1997 and temporarily released him from his official duties. Olboeter himself gave a credible assurance that he first heard of Roeder's dubious reputation and doubts in his academy staff on December 6, 1997 through a call from the command center of the Bundeswehr . The Committee of Inquiry of the Defense Committee, convened at the request of the SPD parliamentary group , came to the same conclusion in mid-1998. As a result, Defense Minister Rühe lifted Olboeter's temporary leave of absence.

From 1996 to 1999 he moved back to the Ministry of Defense, this time as head of the department of personnel, social and central affairs with the rank of lieutenant general. Most recently, he was in command of the NATO Defense College in Rome from 1999 to 2002 . He was retired on March 1, 2002.

Others

From 1993 to 1995 he was Vice President of the Clausewitz Society .

family

He is married and has two children.

Awards

• 1988: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

literature

• Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal , Hansgeorg Model : The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr. 1955 - 1999. the military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals; part VIb). Volume 3: Laegeler - Quiel . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 978-3-7648-2382-5 , pp. 443-444.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A new College for a new NATO  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , NATO Review Vol. 47 / No. 3, autumn 1999, p. 28.  
2. ↑ Hartmut Olboeter: The duty of obedience of the Bundeswehr soldier and the basic right to freedom of conscience according to Art. 4 of the Basic Law . University of Würzburg, 1975, DNB  760616086 (dissertation).
3. ↑ Dr. Hartmut Olboeter ( Memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Hungarian; PDF; 51 kB), Zrínyi Miklós Nemzetvédelmi Egyetem (Zrínyi Miklós National Defense University), Budapest. 
4. ↑ Air Force Training Command 1958-1993 (BL 25). Federal Archives, accessed on August 8, 2020 .  
5. ↑ Former commanders of the command academy , command academy of the Bundeswehr.
6. ↑ R. Moniac: Rühe draws consequences in the Roeder case In: Die Welt from December 9, 1997
7. ↑ The Black Series , Der Spiegel 51/1997, December 15, 1997.
8. ^ Rühe draws conclusions in the Roeder case , Welt online, December 9, 1997.
9. ↑ Agreed debate on the report by the Federal Minister of Defense on the lecture by right-wing extremist Manfred Roeder at the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy in 1995 ( memento of the original from March 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
10. ↑ Printed matter 13/11005 from June 18 , 1998 , German Bundestag.