Johann-Georg Dora

Johann-Georg Dora (born September 16, 1948 in Mainroth ) is a lieutenant general ret. D. the air force of the German armed forces . From 2005 to 2010 he was the deputy inspector general of the Bundeswehr and officer in charge of reservist matters.

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from high school, Johann-Georg Dora joined the German Air Force as an officer candidate for the aviation service in 1967 and completed his officer training and aviation selection training. Following this, he received basic and advanced training for pilots in Germany and the USA . From 1973 he was used as a fighter-bomber and reconnaissance pilot on the Fiat G.91 aircraft.

From 1980 to 1982 Dora took part in the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . Subsequently, he received a job as a squadron captain of the ACE Mobile Forces (AMF) squadron of the Jagdbombergeschwader 43 in Oldenburg , a unit equipped with the Alpha Jet , which he led until 1984. This was followed by a transfer to the Allied Command Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) of NATO in Karup / Denmark as a task force officer.

Back in Germany, he was on his way to the 1987 Bonn Hardthöhe as a speaker at the Joint Staff of the Air Force before the 1989 Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment in the Royal Air Force Station in Cottesmore / UK on Tornado was retrained. In the same year he became commander of the flying group of the fighter-bomber squadron 38 "Friesland" in Jever . In 1991 he was transferred again to the leadership academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg as a tutor and lecturer for air warfare.

This teaching assignment was followed in 1994 by another troop command as commodore of Fighter Bomber Squadron 32 , a unit equipped with ECR tornadoes at Lechfeld Air Base . During this use he set up the Einsatzgeschwader 1 in the summer of 1995 , consisting of parts of his unit and the reconnaissance wing 51 "Immelmann" . The squadron relocated in August 1995 under his leadership to Piacenza in Italy . From there he conducted the first mission of the air force as part of IFOR in the Balkans. In 1996 he was transferred to the Air Force Command in Cologne as department head A3 (planning and operations).

General uses

After 18 months as A3, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the Air Force Command and Brigadier General. On March 12, 1999, again after 18 months, he became commander of the Luftwaffe officers' school in Fürstenfeldbruck . Just a few days later, on March 24, 1999, NATO's Operation Allied Force began against what was then the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia , in which he was in command of the Air Force units stationed in Italy.

In September 2000, Dora changed uses again and was appointed Major General Commander of the NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Force Command at the location of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) near Casteau near Mons in Belgium . On October 1, 2003, Dora returned to Germany and became Deputy Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Potsdam .

On April 1, 2005, Dora became Deputy Inspector General of the German Armed Forces and Commissioner for Reservist Affairs. From January 27, 2006 to April 26, 2006, he was also temporarily the inspector of the armed forces base after the incumbent Lieutenant General Hans-Heinrich Dieter had been put into temporary retirement.

On March 23, 2007, Dora was appointed Commandeur des Ordre national du Mérite by the French President Jacques Chirac in Paris .

Dora was retired on September 16, 2010 with a major tattoo . His successor as Deputy Inspector General was Lieutenant General Günter Weiler .

Others

Dora has more than 3400 hours of flight experience on the Cessna T-37 , Northrop T-38 , Fiat G.91, Alpha Jet, Tornado ECR and Boeing 707 / E-3A aircraft .

He is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bundeswehr says goodbye to Deputy Inspector General Dora. BMVg Press and Information Office, September 14, 2010, accessed on October 15, 2016 .