Klaus-Peter Stieglitz

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Klaus-Peter Stieglitz (born October 3, 1947 in Lutherstadt Eisleben ) is a retired German Lieutenant General . D. the air force of the German armed forces . He was the Air Force's 13th inspector from 2004 to 2009  .

Training and first uses

Klaus-Peter Stieglitz joined the Air Force in 1968 and was made a lieutenant in 1971 . After training as an officer , he was in Uetersen and in the United States ( Sheppard Air Force Base / Texas and Luke Air Force Base / Arizona) on the F 104G "Starfighter" to the pilots for jet airplanes trained. In 1972, he was promoted to first lieutenant .

From 1973 to 1974 he was a pilot in Jagdgeschwader 71 "Richthofen" in Wittmund / East Friesland . In 1974 he retrained to the F-4F "Phantom II" in the United States and returned to Fighter Wing 71. There he was employed as a pilot and operational staff officer in the flying group staff and in the 2nd fighter squadron until 1981. During this time he was appointed captain in 1976 and in 1977, again in the United States, the flight and weapons instructor course.

General staff training and service as a staff officer

From 1981, in the same year Stieglitz was promoted to major , he was transferred to the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg for general staff training. As part of the course, he wrote an annual academic paper entitled "Aviation Training in the German Air Force 1935–1945 - A Contribution to the Problem of Training with Special Consideration of War Conditions". Following his general staff training, in 1983 he was transferred as a squadron captain to the Fighter Bomber Wing 35 (JaboG 35) in horses field (Hunsrück) . In 1985 he changed to the post of Head of Department A 3 a in the staff of the 1st  Air Force Division in Meßstetten .

In 1987 he made his way to the NATO headquarters SHAPE in Mons / Belgium , in the same year he was appointed lieutenant colonel . At SHAPE Stieglitz was employed as a general staff officer in the operations department. Back in Germany in 1989 he became the commander of the flying group at Jagdgeschwader (JG) 74 "Mölders" in Neuburg an der Donau . He was then transferred to Hardthöhe in Bonn in 1991 , where he was deployed in the Air Force command staff (Fü L III 1) and in the planning staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense .

In 1993, Stieglitz took over the Fighter Bomber Wing 35 in Horse Field as a commodore . Under his leadership, the squadron was relocated to Laage / Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and merged with JG 73 "Steinhoff" , which emerged from the MiG-29 test wing in Preschen . In 1994 Stieglitz was promoted to colonel . Stieglitz led the newly created Jagdgeschwader 73 as a commodore until 1995, when he was employed in the air force command staff as head of department (Fü L III 4, area of ​​flight operations, flight safety and air traffic control in Germany).

Service in the rank of general

In 1998 Stieglitz was appointed brigadier general and became the commander of the NATO E-3A Association ( AWACS ) in Geilenkirchen . This was followed in 2000 as a general flight safety in the Air Force Office in the Cologne Air Force Barracks Wahn . Stieglitz was transferred to another troop command in 2002 when he took over the 3rd Air Force Division  in Berlin-Gatow . Also in 2002 was the promotion to major general . Already in October 2003 he changed posts again and became Lieutenant General , in Ramstein Deputy Commander of the Allied Air Forces in Northern Europe (AIRNORTH), today's Air Component Command Headquarters (CC-Air) .

After a few months in this position at AIRNORTH, the then Defense Minister Peter Struck transferred the post of inspector of the Air Force to Stieglitz on January 12, 2004 . After almost six years at the helm of the Air Force, he was relieved of his position on October 29, 2009 by Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, who had been appointed Federal Minister of Defense the day before , and then retired with a big tattoo . He was followed by Aarne Kreuzinger-Janik as division commander in 2003 .

Others

Stieglitz has flown on seven types of aircraft in his career, from starfighters to Eurofighter . Due to his age, he completed his training on the Eurofighter without a valid flight license, which made it necessary to train him exclusively in a two-seater. In total, he completed over 3,500 flight hours.

He is married and has a daughter.

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personal data
SURNAME Goldfinch, Klaus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German General and Inspector of the Air Force (Bundeswehr)
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Lutherstadt Eisleben