Hartmut Renk

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Brigadier General Hartmut Renk (2018)

Hartmut Renk (born July 22, 1962 ) is a major general in the Army of the German Armed Forces and has been Chief of the Multinational Command Operational Command in Ulm since April 1, 2020 .

Life

Hartmut Renk joined the Bundeswehr in 1982 in the 94th Panzer Battalion in Munster and, after completing his basic training, was employed as a rifleman and tank commander. From 1985 to 1989 he studied at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . Thereafter, it was as a train operator to Landshut added to Panzerbataillon 244 and 1992 finally at Panzerbataillon 203 in Hemer company commander . From 1995 to 1997 he was adjutant to the chief of staff at NATO headquarters SHAPE in Mons , Belgium .

From 1997 to 1999 Renk completed the national general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and was then assigned to the Army Command in Koblenz as a staff officer for planning exercises. In 2000 he was transferred to Weißenfels and served as chief of staff in the 38th Panzer Grenadier Brigade . During this time he also took part in the KFOR mission in Kosovo . In 2002 he took over the Panzer Battalion 33 in Neustadt as commander.

This was followed by staff assignments in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn and Berlin , including as Adjutant to the Defense Minister (2008–2010) and as Head of Department for Strategy and Operations (2012) and as Adjutant to the State Secretary (2012–2014). From 2014 to September 2018 Renk was deputy commander of the Army Training Command in Leipzig .

In December 2015, he was simultaneously commander of Train, Advise and Assist Command North (TAAC North) of the Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan , succeeding Andreas Hannemann . On November 10, 2016, he handed this command over to Brigadier General André Bodemann .

In September 2018, Renk succeeded Brigadier General Kai Rohrschneider as Chief of Staff of the US Army Europe . He is the third German to hold this post. He handed over this post on April 1, 2020 in order to replace Major General Kai Rohrschneider as Chief of the Multinational Command Operational Leadership in Ulm on the same date.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Brigadier General Hartmut Renk (DEU). In: rs.nato.int. NATO, accessed March 2, 2016 .
  2. ^ Philipp Hoffmann: Change at the top in Mazar-e Sharif. In: einsatz.bundeswehr.de. Bundeswehr, December 23, 2015, accessed on March 2, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Afghanistan deployment of the Bundeswehr under new leadership. In: www. Einsatz.bundeswehr.de. Retrieved November 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Renk, Hartmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Major General and Deputy Commander of the Army Training Command
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century