Heinz-Georg Keerl

Heinz-Georg Keerl (born January 7, 1946 in Weddel near Braunschweig ; † February 23, 2011 in Reinbek ) was a major general in the Army of the German Armed Forces and was most recently in command of the Military District Command I Coast in Kiel .

Training and first uses

Heinz-Georg Keerl joined the Bundeswehr in April 1966 after graduating from high school in Bonn as an officer candidate for the 82nd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Lüneburg . In 1968/69 he attended Army Officer School III in the Stetten barracks in Munich as part of officer training . After completing his training, he was made a lieutenant in 1969.

He was transferred to the Panzergrenadierbataillon 92 in Munster and served there until 1973, initially as a platoon leader officer , later as an S2 officer (head of staff department S2 ). He was then transferred to the 32nd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Nienburg / Weser , where he served as a company commander .

General staff training and service as a staff officer

In 1977, Heinz-Georg Keerl was transferred to the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy in Hamburg to take part in the Army's 20th General Staff Course. He wrote a scientific paper on the subject of "The hatred education in schools, youth organizations and the armed forces of the GDR". After completing the course in 1979, he became a G4 staff officer on the staff of Airborne Brigade 27 in Lippstadt , before moving to the Northern Army Group (NORTHAG) headquarters in Mönchengladbach in 1981 as a logistics staff officer . In 1983 he was transferred again, this time to Airborne Brigade 25 in Calw , as a G3 staff officer.

His first troop command was given to him in 1985 when he became commander of the 163rd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Wentorf near Hamburg . After this time in the troops, he returned to Hamburg in 1987 to the command academy of the Bundeswehr, where he worked until 1991 as a lecturer in troop command and tutor in the general staff course. His path then led him to London / United Kingdom . Keerl worked there as a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) until 1993 . Back in Germany he was employed as a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü S III 2) on the Hardthöhe in Bonn .

In 1994 he was again transferred to Mönchengladbach , this time to the headquarters (HQ) of the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC). There he took over the post as Assistant Chief of Staff G3 (Operations). During this use he was from December 1995 to November 1996 as G3 HQ ARRC / Land Component Command IFOR . At the beginning of 1997 he moved to Rendsburg to the headquarters of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT), where he was again employed as Assistant Chief of Staff and was involved in setting up the headquarters of the Multinational Corps North-East in Stettin .

General uses

In 2000 Keerl took over the post of deputy division commander and commander of the division troops of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division in Leipzig as Brigadier General . From September 2001 to June 2002, he led the Bundeswehr's first foreign deployment as commander of the Task Force FOX (TFF) in Macedonia . From June to September 2004 he was the Senior National Representative and Head of the German Liaison Command at the headquarters of the United States Central Command (USCENTCOM).

In January 2005, Keerl was finally appointed major general in the post of commander in the military area command I coast in Kiel, making him the highest-ranking military representative of the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Lower Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, as well as for the until his retirement on January 18, 2008 City-states Hamburg and Bremen was.

Others

Heinz-Georg Keerl was married and the father of two daughters. During his military career, his personal motto was "Stand up, stand in front, go ahead".

literature

• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and Defense Industry 2007/2008 . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, December 2007. ISBN 3763762760