Heinz Marzi

Heinz Marzi (born March 17, 1947 in Castrop-Rauxel ) is a German officer ( former lieutenant general ) and association functionary. In 2000/01 he was the commander of the Air Force Officers' School and most recently deputy inspector of the Air Force . In 2010 he was managing director of the Federal Association of the German Security and Defense Industry .

Life

Military background

Promotions

• 1968 lieutenant
• 1971 first lieutenant
• 1974 captain
• 1980 major
• 1987 Lieutenant Colonel
• 1993 Colonel
• 1998 Brigadier General
• 2001 major general
• 2004 Lieutenant General

Heinz Marzi joined the officer training battalion in Fürstenfeldbruck in 1966. 1966/67 he was a ground security soldier and deputy group leader in the air force training regiment in crowd. He then completed his basic internship with the Luftwaffe Park Regiment 2 in Klein-Heidorn and the 24th officer course in teaching group A at the Air Force Officer School (OSLw) in Neubiberg.

From 1968 to 1971 he studied electrical engineering (Dipl.-Ing. (FH)) at the Air Force University of Applied Sciences (FHSLw) in Neubiberg. He was then an orderly officer . From 1973 to 1974 he was trained as a FlaRakElo officer and as a technical officer ( Pershing 1 ). He was then commanded from Missile Squadron 1 in Landsberg am Lech for weapons system training at the US Army Air Defense Artillery School in Huntsville, Alabama. From 1975 to 1978 he was head of technology at Missile Squadron 1.

From 1978 to 1980 he completed the 23rd general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. From 1982 to 1986 he was a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg). From 1980 to 1982 he was an operational general staff officer in the military advisory group Operations Research in Ottobrunn. In 1982 he became a consultant (“Concept and long-term planning of the Air Force”) at the Air Force Command (Fü L) in Bonn. From 1986 to 1988 he was adjutant to the chief of staff. In 1988 he became commander of the Flugkorpsgeschwader 2 support group in Geilenkirchen. From 1990 to 1992 he was Adjutant Luftwaffe at the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr (Admiral Dieter Wellershoff and General Klaus Naumann ).

In 1992/93 he completed the Senior Course at the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome and was then employed as Chief Air Defense Section and Branch Chief in the International Military Staff at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Brussels (Belgium). In 1995 he became head of division at the Federal Chancellery in Bonn. In 1998 he became Chief of Staff in the Air Force Command (LwKd) North in Kalkar. From 2000/01 he was in command of the Air Force Officers' School (OSLw) in Fürstenfeldbruck. He then became Chief of Staff in the Air Force Command Staff. From 2004 to 2009 he was Deputy Inspector of the Air Force (InspL). In 2009, Federal Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung bid him farewell on the Hardthöhe in Bonn with a big tattoo .

Association activity

After his retirement he took over the management of the Defense Industry Committee in the Federation of German Industries (BDI). In 2010 he was the managing director of the newly founded Federal Association of the German Security and Defense Industry (BDSV). In the same year, the “Investigations in Special Cases” (ES) unit of the Federal Ministry of Defense forbade the managerial activity, as the five-year blocking period for such a change was allegedly not observed.

Others

Marzi he is a member of the Gneisenau Society and published in the Gneisenau papers . He is also a member of the advisory board of the Clausewitz Society and has been head of the Bavarian regional district since 2011.

He has been married since 1973 and has one child.

Awards

• Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in gold

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, Bissendorf 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2382-8 , pp. 190-191.

Web links

• Helmet off to prayer - Big tattoo for General Marzi . BMVg, Bonn, March 30, 2009.
• Lieutenant General a. D. Heinz Marzi at the DialogForum Security Policy

Individual evidence

1. ^ Recall a general . In: Der Spiegel , 45/2010.
2. ↑ Advisory Board , Clausewitz Society, accessed on May 23, 2015.
3. ↑ Viktor Toyka, Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Published by the Clausewitz-Gesellschaft, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , p. 271.