Kurt Herrmann (General)

Kurt Herrmann (2009)

Kurt Herrmann (born August 3, 1950 in Wetzlar ) is a lieutenant general a. D. the Air Force . Most recently he was Director of the NATO Communications and Information Systems Services Agency in Mons ( Belgium ).

Military career

Lieutenant General Kurt Herrmann joined the Air Force in 1969, went through officer training at the Air Force Officer School in Fürstenfeldbruck and Neubiberg (Bavaria) and initially studied aerospace engineering at the Air Force University of Applied Sciences . From 1973 he studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich , which he graduated with a diploma in 1977.

His first service as a technical officer for aircraft electronics of the F-104G weapon system, "Starfighter" , he completed in the electronics and weapons squadron of Fighter Bomber Wing 33 . This was followed by a position as a programming staff officer for the TORNADO PA-200 weapon system in the Air Force's programming center for airborne weapon systems in Kaufering near Landsberg / Lech.

After the two-year general staff course (1981-1983) at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg, he became head of the electronics and image equipment squadron at Reconnaissance Wing 52 in Leck / North Friesland (1983-1985). From 1985 to 1987 he was head of the logistics department at the Air Force Command Service in Cologne. He went through his first ministerial assignment as a consultant for electronic data processing and secretary of a working group for command and information systems in the command staff of the Air Force in the Federal Ministry of Defense (1987–1990).

He then served as a general staff officer (deployment) in the field of force planning at SHAPE (1990-1992). From 1993 to 1994 he returned to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn as a consultant for military policy matters at the headquarters of the armed forces . When he was promoted to colonel in 1994, he became commander of Air Force Supply Regiment 5 in Trollenhagen. As early as March 1996, he returned to the Federal Ministry of Defense as head of division for strategic optical and radar reconnaissance systems in the staff department for military communications at the command staff of the armed forces. During this employment he also took on the duties of the Air Force Inspectorate for Military Intelligence. From November 1998 he was Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the 1st Air Force Division in Karlsruhe and held this post until September 2000.

In October 2000 he took over the post of general inspections and further development of the air force in the Air Force Office in Cologne and was promoted to brigadier general in 2001. In this role he worked directly for the Air Force Inspector .

In January 2002 he became the first commander of the Strategic Reconnaissance Command and held this post until the end of November 2004. From October 2004 to March 2005 he completed language training in Russian at the Federal Language Office in Hürth. At the end of May 2005, after his promotion to major general, he took over the post of head of the NATO Military Liaison Mission (MLM) in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Back in Germany, he was employed as deputy commander of the armed forces support command in Cologne from July 2008 . In April 2009 he became director of the NATO Communications and Information Systems Services Agency (NCSA) and was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general. He is the bearer of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and the Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in gold.

He has been President of the Clausewitz Society since October 2013 .

Private

Lieutenant General Herrmann has been married since 1972. The couple have two grown sons.

Web links

• Biography on the NCSA website ( Memento from April 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Farewell to thought leaders from the armed forces base. ( Memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Armed forces base, August 31, 2012
2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. BMVg press and information staff, July 16, 2008, archived from the original on February 13, 2010 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .