Klaus Olshausen

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Klaus Olshausen (born April 25, 1945 in Eisenberg ) is a lieutenant general ret. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . From 2005 to 2013 he was President of the Association of German Pioneers (BdPi) . From August 12, 2006 to October 26, 2013 he was President of the Clausewitz Society .

Military career

Olshausen joined the Bundeswehr on April 1, 1964 and was trained as an officer in the pioneer troop. After promotion to lieutenant he was transferred to Munich and served there from April 1966 as platoon leader of the 3rd company of the heavy pioneer battalion 210. From autumn 1967 to summer 1972 he studied history and political science at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg and graduated with a doctorate supervised by Andreas Hillgruber . In October 1972, Olshausen was transferred to Pioneer Battalion 6 in Plön , where he took over the 2nd Company as a company commander.

From 1976 to June 1978, Olshausen completed general staff training in the 19th general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . There he was awarded the General Heusinger Prize for his outstanding achievements . He then served from 1978 to 1980 as an intelligence officer ( G2 ) of the 12th Panzer Division in Veitshöchheim . From 1980 to 1981 he graduated from the Command and General Staff College of the US Army in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas , and then served until 1983 as a consultant for foreign and security issues at the Federal Chancellery in Bonn . Subsequently, from September 1983 to September 1985, he again took over a troop command as commander of Pioneer Battalion 2 in Hann. Münden . At the same time, he was also employed as an engineer staff officer in the headquarters of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division in Kassel .

From September 1985 to April 1987 he returned to Bonn, where he was advisor for military strategy in the planning staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense . From April 1987 to September 1990 he was employed abroad as an army attaché at the German Embassy in Washington, DC In September 1990, Olshausen returned to Germany and on October 1, 1990, immediately after reunification , took command of the 31st Panzergrenadierbrigade in Oldenburg and led this until it was reclassified to Airborne Brigade 31 on March 31, 1993. After a brief period as chairman of a planning group, he took over the post of Head of Staff Division VI in the Command Staff of the Armed Forces (Fü S VI) in Bonn from April 1, 1993 to August 1994 and was promoted to brigadier general in this service.

After an interim assignment in the Army Office in Cologne , Olshausen was then from January 2, 1995 to February 1, 1996 as Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the newly established Army Support Command in Mönchengladbach and, in particular, was entrusted with building the command. He then took over from February 1, 1996 to December 15, 1997 the post of Deputy Commanding General at the headquarters of the Eurocorps in Strasbourg . After a rotation of command and a change with a Spanish general, however, Olshausen served in the post of German deputy commanding general until September 30, 1998.

From October 1, 1998 to October 1, 2000, he took over the post of commander of the corps troops and the deputy commanding general of the IV Corps in Potsdam under the command of Hans-Peter von Kirchbach and Rainer Schuwirth . During this assignment he was employed from June 12, 1999, first as deputy commander of KFOR and from October 8 to December 14, as chairman of a " Joint Implementation Commission " of KFOR. On 1 October 2000 Olshausen was a lieutenant general to Brussels displaced and served in the headquarters of NATO as a Military Representative of Germany in the NATO Military Committee in the WEU and EU .

In 2006 he finally retired and took over the office of President of the Clausewitz Society on August 12th . On September 16, 2005, Olshausen was elected President of the Association of German Pioneers (BdPi), which he held until July 12, 2013.

Personal

Olshausen is married, has a son and now lives in Meckenheim (Rhineland) . His twin brother Wolfgang was a notary in Rain until his retirement in 2015 .

Awards

  • 1978: General Heusinger Prize
  • 2003: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
  • 2013: Cross of Honor of the Association of German Pioneers
  • 2014: Carl von Clausewitz Prize of the City of Burg
  • 2016: Clausewitz Gold Medal of Merit from the Clausewitz Society

Fonts (selection)

  • Interlude in the Balkans. The German policy towards Yugoslavia and Greece from March to July 1941 (= contributions to military and war history , Volume 14), Oldenbourg, Deutsche Verlagsanstalt, Munich 1973, ISBN 3-486-55351-8 .
  • Leadership, leadership ability, leadership support. On the way to real priorities? (Co-author), Study Society of the German Society for Defense Technology, 2003, ISBN 3-935938-18-7 .

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 3: Laegeler - Quiel . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2005, ISBN 3-7648-2382-8 , p. 447.
  • Viktor Toyka , Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Edited by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 , pp. 140-141.

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