Jürgen Dubois

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Jürgen Dubois (born December 7, 1932 in Hanau / Main ; † March 25, 2008 ) was a German rear admiral in the Navy , who was, among other things, commander of the naval aviation division between 1982 and 1987 and most recently from 1989 to 1993 commander of the Schleswig-Holstein territorial command and German The authorized representative in the area of ​​the Allied Forces Northern Europe was AFNORTH ( Allied Forces Northern Europe ) .

Life

Dubois began studying law after graduating from high school in 1953 and joined the German Navy on January 1, 1956 as a member of the first Crew I / 1956 . His classmates included Flotilla Admiral Gerhard Bing , Flotilla Admiral Konrad Ehrensberger and Vice Admiral Hein-Peter Weyher . After completing his training as a naval officer , he completed his aeronautical training in 1959 and between 1960 and 1965 he was employed as an aircraft pilot and squadron captain at the Naval Air Wing 1 (MFG 1) at Schleswig Air Base in Jagel . There he completed a retraining of pilots of combat aircraft of the type Hawker Sea Hawk to combat type aircraft Lockheed F-104 "Starfighter" . After his promotion to Korvettenkapitän on July 27, 1965, he completed the application course for the admiralty staff at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg between 1965 and 1967 .

Subsequently, Dubois returned in 1967 as the commander of the flying group to Marinefliegergeschwader 1 and was promoted to frigate captain on January 31, 1969 . He then worked 1970-1973 as a teaching staff officer at the Staff College and took over after that in April 1973 as the successor to Captain Gerhard Reger the post as commander of Naval Air Wing 1. During this time he himself was also the Captain transported and remained in this position until he was replaced by Captain Waldemar Scholz in May 1977. After a subsequent assignment between 1977 and 1979 as Head of Division in the Navy Command (FüM) in the Federal Ministry of Defense , he succeeded Captain in October 1979 See Hansjakob Kratzmair as Chief of Staff of the Fleet Command (FlKdo) in Glücksburg - Meierwik and exercised this function until he was replaced by Captain Kurt Ziebis in April 1982.

With simultaneous promotion to Flotilla Admiral , Dubois succeeded Flotilla Admiral Rudolf Deckert as commander of the Naval Aviation Division on April 1, 1982 . He remained in this post until September 30, 1987, after which Flotilla Admiral Kurt Ziebis was his successor there. As Rear Admiral , he replaced Rear Admiral Gustav Carl Liebig as Deputy Commander of the Fleet Command on October 1, 1987 , and held this position until he was replaced by Rear Admiral Hans-Jochen Meyer-Höper on October 1, 1989. He was last on October 1, 1989 again as successor to Rear Admiral Gustav Carl Liebig, Commander of the Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein and German Plenipotentiary in the area of ​​the Allied Forces Northern Europe AFNORTH ( Allied Forces Northern Europe ) . On March 31, 1993, he retired and was then replaced on April 1, 1993 by Major General Jürgen von Falkenhayn .

Dubois was married and had two daughters and a son.

Background literature

  • Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 1990/91 , p. 35, Bernhard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-5865-8
  • Stefan Petersen: The naval aviators of the Bundeswehr until 1970 , pp. 9, 249, 275, University of Hamburg, 1994

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naval Aviation Associations ( Federal Archives-Military Archives )
  2. ↑ Fleet Command (Federal Archives-Military Archives)
  3. ↑ Europäische Wehrkunde , p. 35, Volume 31, 1982
  4. ^ Flotilla of naval aviators (Federal Archives-Military Archives)
  5. ↑ Fleet Command (Federal Archives-Military Archives)
  6. ↑ Marine Review . Zeitschrift für Seewesen , p. 309, Volume 86, Verlag ES Mittler, 1989
  7. ↑ Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein / German Authorized Area AFNORTH (Federal Archives-Military Archives)
  8. ^ Wehrtechnik , p. 3, volume 25, issues 1–6, Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, 1993
personal data
SURNAME Dubois, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanau
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 2008