Jürgen Reichardt

Jürgen Reichardt (born June 16, 1938 in Grabig, Sorau District , Brandenburg Province (today Powiat Żarski , Poland )) is a major general a. D. of the Army of the Bundeswehr and author.

Life

Jürgen Reichardt joined a hunter battalion in Itzehoe in the German armed forces . He went through the career of an infantry officer to the company commander in Wentorf. He then completed general staff training at the Bundeswehr Command Academy from 1969 . This was followed by assignments in the divisional headquarters of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division in Neumünster and in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn. He received his first assignment as a commander in 1977 as a lieutenant colonel in Panzergrenadierbataillon 242 in Feldkirchen . In 1980, after visiting the NATO Defense College in Rome , he was transferred to the 4th Jägerdivision in Regensburg as chief of staff and promoted to colonel. In October 1982, after a brief previous assignment in the BMVg, he became the spokesman for the then Defense Minister Manfred Wörner and head of the information and press staff (IP staff) in the Federal Ministry of Defense.

On October 1, 1984, he took command of Panzergrenadierbrigade 10 in Weiden , which he handed over to his successor Wolfgang Sand on March 31, 1988 as Brigadier General . After serving in the planning staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense under the leadership of Lieutenant General Jörg Schönbohm , he became the last commander of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division in Regensburg on October 1, 1989, before it was reclassified to the Air Mobility Forces Command (KLK). As a major general , he became head of the Army Office in Cologne on April 1, 1994, and led it until his retirement on September 30, 1998.

Kießling affair

In the Kießling affair he was the press spokesman for the defense minister “at the center of this cyclone”. a. had been nourished by amateurish MAD research in a gay bar in Cologne. The position of the Ministry of Defense of not giving reasons for Kießling's dismissal could no longer be upheld. His non-illusionary analysis showed without contradiction that “we had no chance of subsequently being able to provide public evidence in a matter that should have remained unprovable and therefore now had to remain”. The minister's approach to hearing questionable witnesses without having spoken to the four-star General Kießling beforehand had additionally exacerbated the public's allegations against the ministry.

Retirement and private matters

In his retirement, Reichardt worked as an author, among other things. a. presents his experiences and views of the Kießling affair.

He was President of the Bavarian Soldiers' Union until the end of 2014 .

He is married with four children and now lives in Wörth an der Donau in Bavaria .

Works

Jürgen Reichardt: Hardthöhe Bonn. In the vortex of an affair. Osning Verlag, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-9806268-5-9 .

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit (1984)
• Legion of Merit, USA
• Hungarian Order of Vitéz (Vitézi-Rend) (2001)
• Bavarian Order of Merit (2010)

Web links

• Literature by and about Jürgen Reichardt in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ In the vortex of the gay affair surrounding General Kießling , Mittelbayerische Zeitung on May 17, 2009