Jens Arlt

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Jens Arlt (born March 30, 1969 ) is a colonel in the Army of the German Armed Forces and has been the brigade commander of Airborne Brigade 1 since April 2020 .

Military career

Training and first uses

Arlt joined the German Armed Forces in 1989 as a basic military service member of the 11th Panzer Reconnaissance Training Battalion in Munster . After the change in the career of the officers of the army service he became an officer cadet and 1990-1994 Officer of the armored reconnaissance troop trained. As one of the few officers without a degree, Arlt did not attend a Bundeswehr university . Instead, he was employed as a platoon leader in the 13th Panzer Reconnaissance Battalion in Gotha . Arlt applied to the Special Forces Command (KSK) in Calw and successfully completed the selection process. He was then employed from 1998 to 2001 as a platoon leader in a command company and then until 2002 as a command officer in the further development group of the KSK. From 2002 to 2004 Arlt attended the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg , where he was trained as an officer in the general staff service .

Service as a staff officer

Back in Calw, his first staff assignment took place in 2004 as staff officer G3 (operation and exercise) at the KSK. In 2006 he was transferred to the post of advisor in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg), Command Staff V 6 (deployment of the Bundeswehr) in Bonn and in 2008 in the deployment command staff 7 (Fundamentals and Operations Special Forces / Specialized Forces; National Crisis Prevention), before becoming commander in 2009 forces again to KSK offset was.

Subsequently, from 2011 to 2013, Arlt was personnel manager in the personnel office of the Bundeswehr  I 2 (individual personnel management PSt 112A) in Cologne and then until 2014 working area manager for the army in the BMVg personnel office department II 2 (individual personnel management for the army) in Bonn.

He took over the management of department G5 / J5 (planning / strategy / doctrine) in the staff of the 1st German-Dutch Corps in Münster in 2014 and became chief of staff of the 1st Panzer Division in Oldenburg in 2016 . This was followed in 2018 as head of division for military policy and operations in Europe, Eurasia and the Arctic region in the BMVg department strategy and operations II 2 in Berlin.

Service on general duty

In April 2020, Arlt took over the leadership of Airborne Brigade 1 from Dirk Faust .

Assignments abroad

During his time at KSK, Arlt took part in missions abroad in Bosnia and Herzegovina ( SFOR ), Kosovo ( KFOR ), as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Orders and decorations

Private

Arlt is married and has three children.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - April 2020 (supplement). In: Bundeswehr. April 28, 2020 .;
personal data
SURNAME Arlt, Jens
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1969