Johannes Gerber

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Johannes Gerber (born October 6, 1919 in Stade , † December 23, 2004 in Koblenz ) was a German economist and officer, most recently major general in the Bundeswehr. He was a co-founder of the German armed forces business administration.

Life

Wehrmacht

Gerber was born in 1919 as the son of a forwarding agent. After graduating from high school in 1938 at the Athenaeum Stade , he was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in Ihlienworth. Then he joined the Wehrmacht , in 1938/39 he was a gunner with the 17th Artillery Regiment in Nuremberg. In 1939 he became a gun leader in the artillery regiment 173. In 1939/40 he completed the officer candidate course at the artillery school in Jüterbog.

Promotions

In 1940 he became a battery or observation officer of his regiment. In 1940 he was wounded and taken to the Bad Ems military hospital. He then completed a course at the Army and Air Force Intelligence School in Halle / Saale. From 1940 to 1942 he served in the artillery training regiment in Jüterbog; there he was leader of the staff battery and news train leader. In 1942 he became a training officer in the heavy artillery replacement battalion, later he was retrained to motorized with the light replacement battalion (motorized) 103. He then became leader of the staff battery and battalion adjutant in the 33rd Panzer Artillery Regiment, which was part of the German Africa Corps . In 1942/43 he was O4 of the 15th Panzer Division . In 1943 he was on the staff or as a battery leader in the 33rd Panzer Artillery Regiment

Captivity and studies

In May 1943, he fell into American captivity in which he was promoted to captain in 1944 and remained until 1946th During this time, 1944/45, he attended the camp university in the POW camp Camp Como , Mississippi , where he was tutored by Walter Hallstein , among others , and passed an interpreting exam.

He then completed a commercial apprenticeship at Willy Gerber GmbH in 1946/47 and passed the business assistant examination. In 1947/48 he worked as a freight forwarder . From 1948 to 1950 he studied business administration at the Mannheim Business School ( Diplom-Kaufmann ). He then worked as a business and tax advisor, and in 1954 passed the tax advisor examination.

Later, in 1963, he was at Walter Le Coutre in Mannheim with the dissertation Business Basics for the leadership of the armed forces to Dr. rer. pole. PhD.

armed forces

Promotions

Instead of the team of auditors, he completed the Bundeswehr briefing course in Sonthofen in 1956 . Then he became head of inspections at the Army Officer's School I in Hanover. In 1956/57 he was S3 in the field artillery regiment 1. This was followed by the 1st general staff course (H) at the Army Academy in Bad Ems. In 1957 he became G4 in the Depot Organization (H) command in Bad Neuenahr.

In 1957/58 he attended the US Army Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . He then went on a study trip as part of the Rationalization Board of Trustees of German Business . In 1958/59 he was again G4 in the Depot Organization (H) command in Bad Neuenahr. From 1959 to 1961 he was a member of the ATP group at the Bundeswehr Logistics School in Hamburg. From 1961 to 1963 he was a teaching officer at the Academy for Defense Administration and Defense Technology in Mannheim. In 1963 he became the commander of the 155 armored artillery battalion in Lahnstein.

From 1965 to 1970 Gerber was head of the Psychological Warfare Department (PSK) in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü S VII 6) in Bonn. He then moved to the Federal Chancellery under Willy Brandt as group leader for security policy . From 1973 to 1976 he was Deputy Head of Information Systems at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe near Mons, Belgium . From 1976 to 1978 he was German representative at the Commander in Chief of the French Armed Forces in Germany in Baden-Baden. In 1978 he was the successor to Major General Gottfried Ewert, Deputy Commanding General of the III. Corps and commander of the corps troops in Koblenz. In 1980 he retired.

Others

He, who was particularly concerned with organizational science, logistics and military economics, was a lecturer from the 1960s at the Munich University of Politics , the Army 1 University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt, the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and the University of Karlsruhe .

From 1965 to 1990 he was a member of the German Society for Social Relations and the Study Society for Time Problems , here from 1972 to 1982 1st chairman.

Gerber was a founding member of the Society for Military Economics eV in 1981 and its 1st Chairman until 1993. 1979 and 1981 he was responsible for the Symposium on Business Administration and Armed Forces at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg .

He was married and had three children.

Honors

Fonts (selection)

  • (Ed.): Pocket book for logistics . Defense and Knowledge Publishing Company, Darmstadt 1962. (6th episode 1972)
  • Business administration for armed forces . With an introduction by Walter Le Coutre, Markus-Verlagsgesellschaft, Cologne 1967.
  • Contributions to business administration in the armed forces . Walhalla and Praetoria Verlag, Regensburg 1978, ISBN 3-8029-6380-6 .
  • Contributions to the practice of alternative defense (= studies on political science / Department B, research reports and dissertations. Vol. 50). Edited by Reinhard Meyers, Lit, Münster a. a. 1990, ISBN 3-88660-546-9 .
  • (Ed.): Land warfare. Operation, tactics, logistics, means . 2 volumes, Biblio-Verlag, Bissendorf 1992/2004.
  • European military economy in a globalizing environment. Lectures on military economics at the University of National and World Economy, Sofia . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2580-4 .

literature

  • Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 2.1: Gaedcke - Hoff . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2562-6 , pp. 142-145.
  • Oswald Hahn (ed.): The soldier as economist. Major General Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. rer. pole. Johannes Gerber on his 70th birthday . Walhalla- and Praetoria-Verlag, Regensburg 1989, ISBN 3-8029-6387-3 .
  • Waclaw Stankiewicz: Johannes Gerber. Co-founder of the German armed forces business administration . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1993, ISBN 3-7648-2432-8 . (2nd edition 1996)
  • Siegfried Schönherr (Ed.): Armed Forces, Economy and European Security. Major General Dipl.-Kfm. Dr. rer. pole. Johannes Gerber on his 80th birthday . Society for Military Economics, Dachau 1999, ISBN 3-925042-13-X .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Psychological Warfare / Psychological Defense of the Bundeswehr ( Memento of the original from February 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 3.5 MB), dissertation by Dirk Drews, 2006, p. 15  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ubm.opus.hbz-nrw.de
  2. ^ Bonn register of associations, VR 3708
personal data
SURNAME Gerber, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist and officer, general in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Stade
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 2004
Place of death Koblenz