Klaus-Dieter Cohrs

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Klaus-Dieter Cohrs (born July 23, 1960 ) is a Brigadier General of the Army of the German Armed Forces and has been the commander of the Land Systems Engineering Training Center in Aachen since March 2018 .

Military career

Training and first uses

Cohrs joined the Bundeswehr in 1980, completed his training as a non-commissioned officer , and was employed as a maintenance non-commissioned officer in the Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon 92 in Munster until 1982 . In 1982 he switched to the career of officers and was trained as an officer in the repair force until 1987 at the Technical Troop 1 School and the Army Technical School in Aachen . During this time he also completed a degree in mechanical engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munichfrom. From 1987 to 1991 he was employed as a maintenance officer and head of the technical operations management of the repair training company 90 in Munster. From 1991 to 1994 Cohrs was company commander of the repair training company 605 in Boostedt , during this time he also completed his training as an officially recognized expert in motor vehicle traffic . From 1994 to 1995 he was employed as an S3 officer (deployment, training, organization) in the 6th repair regiment in Flensburg , before he took part in general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg from 1995 to 1997 .

Service as a staff officer

The first assignment as a staff officer led Cohrs from 1997 to 1999 as a G3 planning staff officer (training and exercise) for multinational exercises of the crisis reaction forces at the Army Command in Koblenz . From 1999 to 2000 he took part in the Defense Technology Course at the Royal Military College of Science at Cranfield University in Shrivenham ( Great Britain ) , which he completed as a Master of Science in Defense Technology . From 2000 to 2001 he was G3 operations staff officer of Logistics Brigade 1 in Lingen , before he was in command of the 11th repair battalion in Delmenhorst from 2001 to 2003 . During this time he also worked as a liaison officer at the United States Central Command ( USCENTCOM ) headquarters in Tampa ( USA ) as part of Operation Enduring Freedom . From 2003 to 2006 he was employed as a keynote speaker Fü S IV 4 (mobility and transport logistics) in the command staff of the armed forces in Bonn . From 2006 to 2008 Cohrs was German project officer for the logistic investigation LOGWAR at the British Ministry of Defense in Bath (Great Britain). In 2008 he was transferred to the logistics school of the Bundeswehr in Osterholz-Scharmbeck , where he was head of the further development department until 2010 . During this time he was also the Branch Chief for the establishment of the Kosovo Security Force at the headquarters of the Kosovo Force (KFOR) in Pristina ( Kosovo ) on an international assignment . From 2011 to 2015 Cohrs was Head of Logistics and Head of Supply Chain Management , then Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff at the Bundeswehr logistics center in Wilhelmshaven . From 2015 to 2018 he was employed as a ministerial head of planning II 5 (skill development domain support in the dimensions) in the planning department of the Federal Ministry of Defense , based in Bonn.

Service as a general

Since March 23, 2018, Cohrs has been the successor of Brigadier General Ralf Lungershausen , commander of the Land Systems Training Center and General of the Army Logistics Forces in Aachen. In this post he was also promoted to brigadier general in November 2019.

Private

Cohrs is married.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ From Lingen of all places. In: Delmenhorster Kreisblatt. April 5, 2001, accessed December 4, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Marcus Stöcklin: "Patriots": With the ferry to Turkey. In: https://www.ln-online.de/ . Lübecker Nachrichten, January 10, 2013, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Change of leadership in the Lützow barracks: Beethoven sounds at the farewell. In: https://www.aachener-zeitung.de/ . Aachener Zeitung, March 25, 2018, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ ALI RAHNAMA: KLAUS-DIETER COHRS PROMOTED TO GENERAL BY MINISTER KRAMP-KARRENBAUER. In: https://www.top-aachen.de/ . November 2, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Cohrs, Klaus-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German soldier
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1960