Josef Heinrichs (General)

Josef Heinrichs (born April 13, 1953 in Hümmel ) is a retired Brigadier General of the Army of the Bundeswehr . D. In his last employment from April 2013 to March 2015, he was Chief of Staff and Deputy Head of Office in the Office for Army Development in Cologne .

Military career

Training and first uses

Henry stepped on 1 June 1972 after graduating from high school as a basic compulsory military service at the Infantry Battalion 152 in Westerburg in the Bundeswehr one. He first completed training as a reserve officer. After continuing his engagement, he studied economics and organizational sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg from 1975 to 1978 and graduated with a degree in business administration. He then returned to the troops and was deployed as platoon leader in 3rd / Panzergrenadierbataillon 201 , Hemer until 1980 and then as company commander until 1983 (however, the battalion was renamed Panzergrenadierbataillon 202).

General staff training and service as a staff officer

Heinrichs completed the 26th general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg from 1983 to 1985 and was then employed as a consultant in the Office for Studies and Exercises in Cologne (predecessor of the Center for Transformation of the Bundeswehr ) until 1987 . This was followed by a position as a G3 staff officer in the Airborne Brigade 26 in Saarlouis before he was employed in 1989 as a reserve officer in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS I / LZP) of the Federal Ministry of Defense . He then moved within the ministry and until 1993 was a consultant for the integration of former NVA soldiers (BMVg P II 1).

Heinrichs took over command of the 381 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Bad Frankenhausen in 1993 . After this deployment of the troops, he returned to the command staff of the armed forces in 1994, where he again worked as a consultant (FüS I 2). In 1996 he took over the post of adjutant to the Army Inspector , Lieutenant General Helmut Willmann . After this assignment he was group leader of Division IV 2 at the Army Office in Cologne in 1998 , in the same year he was transferred again to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn, but this time as Division Head I 1 of the Army headquarters . In 2002 he took part in a year course at the United States Army War College in Carlisle (Pennsylvania) . Back in Germany, he was initially deployed in Waldbröl at the Bundeswehr Center for Analyzes and Studies (successor to the Office for Studies and Exercises) before moving again to Hardthöhe in Bonn in 2004 , this time with the Armed Forces headquarters. At first he was head of the FüS I 6 department, and later of the FüS I 1 department.

General uses

In 2006 Heinrichs was chief of staff in the armed forces office in Bonn for a short time before he became chief of staff of the Multinational Corps Northeast in Stettin . On October 4, 2010 he took over the management of Department IV of the Army Office , which at that time was still stationed in Euskirchen . After the office moved from Euskirchen to Cologne in March 2011, Heinrichs was entrusted with the permanent replacement of the Chief of Staff in the Army Office in December 2012. As part of the realignment of the Bundeswehr, the Army Office was dissolved and the Army Development Office was reorganized as part of a symbolic appeal on June 27, 2013. From April 2013 to March 2015 Heinrichs was Chief of Staff and Deputy Head of Office in the Office for Army Development.

Brigadier General Bernhard Liechtenauer followed him .

At the end of April 30, 2015, Heinrichs retired after 43 years of service.

Calls

• January to August 2007: Head of Multinational Operations Center, ISAF , Afghanistan
• February to August 2010: Head of Staff Department 4 and Deputy Chief of Staff for Support / Logistics, ISAF, Afghanistan

Private

Heinrichs is Roman Catholic, married and has a daughter and a son.

swell

• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and Defense Industry 2009/2010, Bernard & Graefe publishing house, December 2009, ISBN 9783763762828

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Federal Ministry of Defense, April 29, 2013, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 13, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Press release. Berlin September 21, 2006 ( PDF ( Memento from October 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 3, 2016]).