Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart
Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart (born June 6, 1962 in Lingen (Ems) ) is a major general of the Army of the German Armed Forces and has been division commander of the 1st Panzer Division in Oldenburg since April 26, 2018 .
Military career
Training and first uses
Promotions
- 1986 lieutenant
- 1989 first lieutenant
- 1992 captain
- 1998 major
- 2001 Lieutenant Colonel
- 2009 Colonel
- 2014 Brigadier General
- 2018 major general
Sandrart joined the Bundeswehr in 1982 as a conscript and reserve officer candidate in Panzerbataillon 84 in Lüneburg . One year later, in 1983, he switched to the career of troop officers and completed his training as an officer in the armored force . There followed in the years 1984 to 1988, a study of the economic and organizational sciences at the Bundeswehr University of Hamburg in. From 1988 to 1992 he was employed as a platoon leader and S2 officer with the Panzerlehrbataillon 94 in Munster and from 1992 to 1993 as a company commander of the 5th / Panzer Battalion 84 in Lüneburg. From 1993 to 1996 he was employed as a company commander, this time with the Panzerlehrbataillon 93, also in Munster. From 1996 to 1998 Sandrart completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.
Service as a staff officer
The first employment as a general staff officer led Sandrart from 1998 to 2001 as a general staff officer (G6 Op) to the Eurocorps in Strasbourg ( France ). From 2001 to 2003 he was staff officer G3 or chief of staff of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 7 “Hanseatic City of Hamburg” in Hamburg-Fischbek . From 2003 to 2005 he was commander of the Panzerlehrbataillon 93 in Munster . In 2011 he completed a six-month assignment abroad with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) as a senior mentor for the 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army . There he experienced a bomb attack on May 28, 2011 in Taloquan (together with then Major General Markus Kneip ) in the immediate vicinity. Seven people (including two German soldiers) were killed and nine others (including six German soldiers) injured. From 2005 to 2009 he was employed as a ministerial advisor for military policy in the command staff of the armed forces in the Federal Ministry of Defense , at the headquarters in Berlin . Another staff assignment followed as General Staff Officer G3 of the 1st Panzer Division, (at that time still) in Hanover . From 2012 to 2013 there was another ministerial assignment as Head of Division SE II 1 ( Military Policy and Operations Asia, Oceania and America) in the Strategy and Operations Department at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin.
Service as a general
In August 2013, Sandrart succeeded Brigadier General Andreas Marlow as commander of the 41st Panzer Grenadier Brigade . On this post he was also promoted to brigadier general. In January 2016, he handed over command to Colonel Oliver Kohl and moved to SHAPE in Mons ( Belgium ) as Deputy Chief of Staff in Department 7 (J7 ). He handed over this post to Brigadier General Franz-Xaver Pfrengle on October 1, 2017 and became the office manager of the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , General Volker Wieker . On April 26, 2018, von Sandrart succeeded Major General Markus Laubenthal as division commander of the 1st Panzer Division in Oldenburg. In August 2018, he was promoted to major general.
Assignments abroad
- 1999 SFOR 7-month deployment in the SFOR headquarters, Sarajevo , Bosnia-Herzegovina
- 2000 KFOR 4-month deployment at the KFOR headquarters, Pristina , Kosovo
- 2002 EUFOR 7-month EUFOR mission at the headquarters of the Multinational Division South West, Mostar , Bosnia-Herzegovina
- 2011 ISAF 6 months as Senior Mentor 209th ANA Corps, Kunduz , Afghanistan
Awards
- 1999 SFOR bronze medal of the German Armed Forces
- 2002 NATO Medal Former Yugoslavia
- 2004 Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr
- 2011 Bronze Medal of the Bundeswehr ISAF
- 2011 NATO Medal ISAF
- 2011 combat medal
Private
Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart is married and has four children. He is the son of Hans-Henning von Sandrart , the tenth inspector of the army in the Bundeswehr.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ "We lived on the substance". Retrieved April 27, 2018 .
- ↑ Germany's place in the sun: with the Bundeswehr in Afghanistan. New Security Learning, 2011, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ^ ISAF Regional Command North commander presents the OMLT command pennant to the incoming commander at a change of command. In: https://www.dvidshub.net/ . Defense Visual Information Distribution Service, January 19, 2011, accessed June 4, 2018 .
- ↑ "I am one of the lucky ones who survived" , daily newspaper " Die Welt " of August 2, 2011.
- ^ "Kommando was a lottery winner" , daily newspaper SVZ from February 2, 2016.
- ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - October 2017. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Personnel department in the Federal Ministry of Health, October 10, 2017, accessed on June 4, 2018 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Sandrart, Jürgen-Joachim von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 6, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lingen (Ems) |