Horst Pleiner
Horst Pleiner (born November 14, 1941 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian general and from 2000 to 2002 General Inspector of the Austrian Armed Forces .
Life
After graduating from the humanistic grammar school in his hometown, he was drafted on October 1, 1959 as a basic military service to the field hunter battalion 29 in Glasenbach . From 1960 to 1963 he attended the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt . He then went to the hunters 'school in Saalfelden , followed by various assignments at the hunters' school in Glasenbach. From 1969 to 1972 he took part in the 6th General Staff Course at the National Defense Academy in Vienna and was then transferred to the Operations Department in the Federal Ministry of National Defense . In the meantime he was also the commander of the 32nd Landwehr Trunk Regiment. In June 1990 he became head of General Staff Group B in the General Troop Inspectorate, nine years later in October he was Deputy General Troop Inspector and on January 1, 2000, at the same time as his appointment as General Troop Inspector, he was appointed General. Pleiner was the last Austrian general to hold the position of General Troop Inspector (military abbreviation "GTI"), since the highest-ranking post in the Federal Army was given the title of Chief of the General Staff at the end of 2002 when his successor General Roland Ertl took over .
Awards (excerpt)
- 2002: Great Golden Decoration for Services to the Republic of Austria
- Military service mark 2nd class
- Military service mark 1st class
- Military service medal in bronze
Web links
- Article about the appointment of the new General Troop Inspector Horst Pleiner
- Literature by and about Horst Pleiner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait of General Horst Pleiner ( Memento of the original from October 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Austrian Officers Society.
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
Chiefs of the General Staff (since 2002):
Roland Ertl (2002–07) |
Edmund Entacher (2007–11) |
Othmar Commenda (2011 interim.) |
Edmund Entacher (2011–13) |
Othmar Commenda (2013–2018) |
Robert Brieger (2018–)
General troop inspectors (until 2002):
Erwin Fussenegger (1956–70) |
Otto Seitz (1970–71) |
Anton Leeb (1971-77) |
Hubert Wingelbauer (1977–81) |
Heinz Scharff (1981–86) |
Othmar Tauschitz (1986–90) |
Karl Majcen (1990-99) |
Horst Pleiner (1999-2002)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pleiner, Horst |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian military, general and general inspector of the Austrian Armed Forces |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salzburg |