Jan Oerding
Jan Jörg Oerding (born December 30, 1948 in Kleve ) is a retired Lieutenant General . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . He was most recently from 2005 to 2008, the first commander of the Command Operations Command in Ulm .
Military career
July 1, 1969 Oerding appeared as a recruit in the artillery in Augustdorf in the service of the Bundeswehr. From 1969 to 1980 he had various leadership positions in the artillery in Dülmen . From 1980 to 1982, Oerding then completed the general staff course at the command and control academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg together with Manfred Engelhardt and Egon Ramms .
From 1982 to 1995 Oerding served in leadership positions within the German army in Sigmaringen and Kellinghusen as well as in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . From 1984 to 1987 he was a staff officer of the 29th Panzer Brigade in Sigmaringen. From 1995 to 1998 Oerding was the commander of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 30 in Ellwangen. In 1998 Oerding was deployed abroad as the national commander of the 5th SFOR contingent in Bosnia and Herzegovina . He then served in the command staff of the Army in Bonn from 1998 to 2001 . As a division commander and major general , he then led the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen from March 9, 2001 to March 31, 2004 . Then he was appointed lieutenant-general appointed by Ulm added and took over - as three years before the 10th Panzer Division - by Karl-Heinz Lather , the local . II Corps and incorporated this for Command Operations Command to whose first commander he since 7 October 2005 was.
Oerding was significantly involved in initiating and helping to shape civil-military cooperation in the Sigmaringen district , which was given expression in 2006 by sponsoring the staff of the 10th Panzer Division.
On December 10, 2008, Oerding handed over the command to Wolf-Dieter Langheld and was then retired with a big tattoo by Federal Minister of Defense Franz Josef Jung in Ulm.
Private
Born in the Rhineland, and his wife Margarete, a teacher at the Luise-Leininger School in Sigmaringen, live in Krauchenwies . They have two grown daughters and two grandchildren.
Honors
- 2008: New Year's Order
- 2009: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. BMVg press and information staff, December 8, 2008, archived from the original on February 13, 2010 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Oerding, Jan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oerding, Jan Jörg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German General of the Army of the Bundeswehr |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kleve |