Hermann Kaponig

Hermann Kaponig (* 1963 in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee ) is an officer in the Austrian Armed Forces with the rank of major general and has been in command of the Command Support and Cyber ​​Defense (KdoFüU & CD) since 2017 .

Life

Hermann Kaponig was born in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee in 1963 and completed his military service in Carinthia as a one-year volunteer after graduating from the HTBLVA in Ferlach in 1982 , specializing in weapons technology . He was first employed for a year as a deputy platoon commander in a mountain troop association. After training as an officer at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt (born Predil), where he was retired as a lieutenant in 1987 , he was transferred to the 9th Panzer Grenadier Brigade. There he served up to the rank of first lieutenant as a technical officer, platoon commander and deputy company commander.

From 1990 to 1991 he carried out a foreign assignment in the course of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force Austrian Battalion , where he was deployed as deputy company commander. This was followed by assignments for Captain Kaponig as a company commander and as a staff officer (S4), first in an armored staff battalion and then in a supply regiment. During this time, between 1996 and 1998, he was also employed internationally as a staff officer in the G4 area of ​​the then UN Standby High Readiness Brigade (SHIRBRIG) based in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 1998, Major Kaponig was appointed head of the department for technical training matters in the Federal Ministry for National Defense. Subsequently, from 2000 to 2003, he completed the 16th general staff course at the National Defense Academy in Vienna and at the same time studied the individual diploma course "Military Higher Leadership" at the University of Vienna.

In 2003 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the general staff and retired from the Lower Austria military command . In his subsequent assignment as planning officer in the department "Military Basic Planning (MGP) in the planning staff of the General Staff, he was responsible for interoperability. OberstdG Kaponig worked on the reform" ÖBH2010 "within the framework of the armed forces development. He was CJ9 CIMIC from 2003 to 2005 as "Primary Augmentee" in the "Command Operative Intervention Forces" in Ulm, Germany. He then joined the Cabinet of the Federal Minister in the Federal Ministry of Defense as Head of Department for Planning and Armaments . In 2007 he became Head of Department "Training B" at the BMLV appointed and promoted to brigadier. From 2012 he took over the management of the former command support center (FüUZ). In 2013 he was appointed head of the logistics group in the general staff "BMLVS mobility officer" appointed. Kaponig was also "N national logistics director "and represented the department in the bodies of the EU and NATO. He is a participant of the high-level international armaments manager seminar "European Seminar for Top Armaments Manager Personnel" (EuroSTAMP 14) in BERLIN and in 2015 completed the security policy seminar "International Higher Leadership" at the Leadership Academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg.

In 2016, Kaponig was assigned as a project manager for the leadership support capability area as part of the "LV21.1" reform and was appointed as the transition officer on January 1, 2017, with the management of the Command Support and Cyber ​​Defense (KdoFüU & CD), the Cyber ​​Capability Command and the Armed Forces competence center Areas of cyber defense, information and communication technology, electronic warfare and military geospatial. The KdoFüU & CD is a part of the armed forces for the "Cyber ​​Domain" and one of four capability commands of the upper command of the Austrian Armed Forces.

On September 1, 2017, Kaponig was appointed commander of the Command Support and Cyber ​​Defense command and promoted to major general.

Major General Kaponig is also

• since 2017 as "Cyber ​​Coordinator of the BMLV",
• since 2017 as a member of the Defense Technical Advisory Board of the Science Commission and
• since 2014 as a board member of the "Old Austrian Military Foundations" (VAM) of the BMLV.

Private

Hermann Kaponig is married, has two children and lives in Enzesfeld-Lindabrunn . He bears the status of Ing. And the academic degree Mag.

Web links

• Article about the appointment as commander of the command support and Cyber ​​Defense and Kaponig as Carinthian of the day
• Press release Armed Forces restructuring: decisions made about management positions
• Pictures of the new executives in the Federal Ministry of Defense and Sport
• Press release about the appointment as head of the logistics group
• Structure of the Command Support Command and Cyber ​​Defense Federal Ministry for National Defense and Sport
• Detailed curriculum vitae at the Blavatnik Interdisciplinary Cyber ​​Research Center of Tel Aviv University (English)