Klaus von Dambrowski

Klaus von Dambrowski (born February 16, 1953 ) is a Rear Admiral a. D. of the German Navy .

Military career

Training and first uses

Von Dambrowski joined the Bundeswehr in 1972 and completed regular training as a career officer . After completing the A courses in telecommunications / location, he studied pedagogy and educational science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg from October to May 1977 and graduated as a qualified pedagogue. After that he served as a communications officer on destroyer 4 from May 1978 to September 1979 . He then served as a training officer from October 1979 to September 1980.

After completing the B course telecommunications / location, von Dambrowski took over the post of lecture hall director at the Mürwik naval school in October 1980 and served there until September 1981.

From October 1982 to September 1986 he finally served on board the destroyer Mölders as a tracking, command and weapons control center officer. This was followed by a staff assignment as a communications officer (S6) in the staff of the 1st Destroyer Squadron , where von Dambrowski was deployed from 1986 to September 1987.

Service as a staff officer

From October 1987 to September 1989, von Dambrowski completed the 29th National General and Admiral Staff Course (LGAN) at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and was then promoted to Corvette Captain.

After this training, von Dambrowski was deployed from October 1989 to March 1991 as first officer on board the destroyer Schleswig-Holstein under the command of frigate captain Wolfgang Jungmann. He was then transferred to Bonn , where he was employed in the Federal Ministry of Defense from April 1991 to March 1994 as a consultant in the Parliament and Cabinet Department .

From April 1994 to March 1996 von Dambrowski was in command of the frigate Lower Saxony . During this time, from October 1995 to June 1996, he was part of the “Armed Forces Deployment 2020” working group in the Office for Studies and Exercises of the Bundeswehr . In July 1996 he returned to the Federal Ministry of Defense, where he took on the post of advisor for operational issues in the naval command staff (FüM III 2).

In July 1998 he moved to the military policy staff department of the armed forces command staff and served here until January 2000 as a consultant for European security and defense policy (FüS III 4).

In February 2000 he was transferred to Bremerhaven , where he was in charge of LK training at the Naval Operations School until March 2003. Back at the Bonn ministry, he worked from April 2003 to January 2005 as Head of the Department for Conceptual Fundamental Issues and International Cooperation Marine in the Naval Command (FüM III 1). He was then transferred to the second headquarters of the ministry in Berlin , where he served from January 2005 to June 2006 as deputy head of the planning department in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS VI).

Service as an admiral

In June 2006 he went back to Bonn, where he was in the naval command staff, staff department III (FüM III), responsible for conception, planning and leadership, in the rank of flotilla admiral under the command of the chief of staff , first Rear Admiral Axel Schimpf and then Hans -Jochen Witthauer , took over.

On September 29, 2009 by Dambrowski took in Ulm by Major General Rainer Fiegle the post of deputy commander and chief of staff of the Command Operations Command under the command of Wolf-Dieter Langheld and then Markus Bentler . In this role he was appointed rear admiral. At the end of 2012, he moved to the newly formed naval command in Rostock as Chief of Staff . He was retired on February 28, 2015.

Private

Von Dambrowski is married and has three sons.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chief of Staff of the Naval Command hands over office. In: Focus. dpa, February 23, 2015, accessed on March 8, 2015 .