Jürgen Ruwe

Jürgen Ruwe (born December 6, 1946 in Bielefeld ) is a lieutenant general a. D. of the Army of the Bundeswehr and was most recently Deputy Inspector of the Army .

Military career

Training and first uses

Jürgen Ruwe entered the service of the German Armed Forces on April 4, 1966 as an officer candidate and soldier . Until 1969 he was trained as an officer in the armored forces in Koblenz and Munich. After completing his officer training, he was assigned to the Panzerbataillon 213 in Augustdorf until 1977, first as platoon leader , later as an S2 officer and finally as company commander.

From 1977 to 1979 Ruwe completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg , together with Hans-Heinrich Dieter and Wolfgang Schneiderhan . Following this training, he worked as a consultant in the Federal Chancellery in Bonn before he was transferred in 1980, also as a consultant, to the headquarters of the armed forces in the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense . In 1981 he moved within the management staff and took up a post with the chief of staff. In 1982 Ruwe was transferred again and became a G3 staff officer in the staff of the 19 Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Ahlen / Westphalia.

In 1985 he took over command of Panzerbataillon 134 in Wetzlar , before he returned to Bonn in 1987 and served there as a consultant in the personnel department of the Ministry of Defense (BMVg), responsible for general staff officers who were in construction. Subsequently, he perceived another assignment in the BMVg, when he served as an adjutant to the then General Inspector of the Bundeswehr Dieter Wellershoff .

General uses

Another troop command followed on October 1, 1991. Ruwe took over as commander of Panzer Grenadier Brigade 1 in Hildesheim . It was in this role that he was appointed Brigadier General . He was then transferred again to Bonn, this time to the command staff of the army , where he became head of the organization staff department in 1994. In 1998 Ruwe attended the Royal College of Defense Studies in London before he became Chief of Staff in the Army Office in Cologne in 1999 under the command of Major General Manfred Dietrich .

On July 1, 2000 Ruwe received his third troop command with the 7th Panzer Division in Düsseldorf . Associated with this use was the appointment to major general. He handed over the command to Wolf-Joachim Clauss on September 30, 2003 . Ruwe himself was transferred back to the Army Office in Cologne, where he took over as head of office on October 1, 2003. In March 2005 he changed his post for the last time and became deputy of the inspector of the army, connected with the promotion to lieutenant general.

Temporary retirement

On January 27, 2006, Ruwe was put into temporary retirement together with Hans-Heinrich Dieter , then Deputy Inspector General and Inspector of the Armed Forces Base. The reason for this was disciplinary investigations into right-wing extremist incidents against his son Ruwes, who studied at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . Dieter, to whom the university was subordinate to troops, had passed on unauthorized confidential information about the status of the preliminary investigation to Ruwe in October 2005. On the evening of January 27, both generals were put into temporary retirement by the Federal President at the request of the Federal Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung on the basis of Section 50 of the Soldiers Act .

Ruwe and Dieter defended themselves legally against this step and tried in vain for rehabilitation.

Others

In 2011 he became head of the West Regional District of the Clausewitz Society . He is a member of the advisory board.

Jürgen Ruwe is married and has two adult sons and lives in Alfter . His son Christopher was also an officer in the German Army.

literature

• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and Defense Industry 2005/2006, Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Bonn December 2005, ISBN 3-7637-6264-7 .
• Jung is supposed to fire generals . In: Der Spiegel . No. 4 , 2006 ( online ).

Web links

• News from the Tagesschau about dismissal (tagesschau.de archive)
• Article on the dismissal of the Handelsblatt
• Article of the Netzeitung on the dismissal ( Memento of October 16, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Homepage of Jürgen Ruwe

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Advisory Board , website of the Clausewitz Society, accessed on November 21, 2015.

predecessor	Office	successor
Werner Widder	Heads of the Army Office 2003-2005	Wolfgang Korte