Henning Bess

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Henning Bess (born May 21, 1947 ) is a flotilla admiral a. D. of the German Navy .

Life

As the son of naval officer Hans Henning Bess joined the German Navy with crew X / 66 , Bess served as a mine diver and commander of three mine sweeping and mine hunting boats in the mine forces flotilla . From December 29, 1988 to March 24, 1991 he was frigate captain in command of the destroyer Schleswig-Holstein (D 182) . Subsequently, as a sea ​​captain , he was in command of the 4th frigate squadron . As such, he was Commander Task Group (CTG) of DESEX 1/94 from January to March 1994 . In addition to the Emden, the tanker Rhön , the supply ship Freiburg , the frigate Bremen and as far as Dakar also British and French ships took part in the Destroyer Exercise . The German association continued to Buenos Aires / Montevideo , Mar del Plata and Recife . In Roosevelt Roads , the Lower Saxony frigate joined the association for a sea fire. When he embarked on the Emden in Dakar , he was following an old family tradition: Grandfather Hans Bess was first officer (IO) on the legendary small cruiser SMS Emden . The father, like the grandfather, was head of the Emden family .

Then Henning Bess was commander of the naval command services flotilla from 1995 to 1998 . After serving in the naval command staff in Bonn , he became head of department in the Bundeswehr operations command in Potsdam . In 2005 he was promoted to Flotilla Admiral and deployed as Director Operations in the Operational Leadership Command in Ulm . In this function he was, among other things, designated commander for missions of the EU Battlegroup under German leadership. In 2006 he was the leader of the German EUFOR RD Congo contingent in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . In 2009 he headed the German liaison command at the United States Central Command in Tampa . He retired on June 1, 2009.

With his wife Jule Müller he is involved in the social project Petite Flamme in Kinshasa .

Publications

  • 100 years of SMS Emden . MarineForum 11/2012, pp. 51–53

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wilhelmshavener Zeitung, June 11, 2009
  2. ^ Hans Henning Bess: The Navy of the Federal Republic of Germany . Herford 1972
  3. ↑ Petite Flamme Germany
personal data
SURNAME Bess, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Flotilla Admiral (Navy of the Bundeswehr)
DATE OF BIRTH May 21, 1947