Lars Holm

Lars Holm (born September 19, 1961 ) is a flotilla admiral of the German Navy and the commander of the naval support command .

Military career

Training and first uses

Holm joined the German Navy with Crew VII / 81 and completed his training as a naval officer at the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg by 1982 . This also included training trips on the sailing training ship Gorch Fock and the training ship Germany . From 1982 to 1986, he completed a study of the economics and organization at the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg , which he as a business graduate graduated. During his studies he took part in several military internships as 3rd officer on watch on Schnellboot Kl. 142 with the 7th Schnellbootgeschwader in Kiel . From 1986 to 1987 the A course for ship engineering officer took place at the Technical Naval School in Kiel, followed from 1987 to 1989 as a ship engineering officer on a missile speedboat in the 3rd Schnellbootgeschwader in Flensburg. From 1989 to 1990 he took part in the B course to become a technical officer at the Technical Naval School. From 1990 to 1992 Holm was in a further deployment of the troops in Flensburg as head of a system support group for speedboats, embarked on the tender Rhine . From 1992 to 1994 he was employed as a lecture hall leader and specialist instructor for shipbuilding technology and general ship technology at the Technical Naval School. From 1994 to 1996 he then took part in admiral staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg.

Service as a staff officer

His first assignment as a staff officer led Holm from 1996 to 1997 as a consultant in the department Fü S IV 1 (fundamental matters of logistics in the Bundeswehr; logistic management of the Bundeswehr; international logistical cooperation) , and from 1997 to 1998 as a staff officer in the staff department head Fü S IV in the Logistics department in the armed forces headquarters in Bonn . From 1998 to 2000 he was employed as head of department 3 (skills, budget, infrastructure, logistics) in the staff of the German military representative at the NATO military committee in Brussels , Lieutenant General Klaus Wiesmann. From 2000 to 2002, Holm was head of the student department of economics and organizational sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. From 2003 to 2006 he was employed as head of the logistics department and introduced SASPF in the naval office in Rostock . In 2006 he was employed as a consultant in work area 8 (armed forces planning and economic efficiency) of the planning staff in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin . This was followed by a transfer to Glücksburg - Meierwik , where he was deployed from 2006 to 2009 as Head of Technology / Logistics in the Fleet Command . In 2009 he was transferred back to Berlin, where he served as work area manager again in work area 8 in the planning staff until 2012. He was responsible for advising the Minister in the areas of Bundeswehr planning and budget, modernization, profitability, controlling, stationing, organization and structures. Another ministerial assignment followed from 2012 to 2017 as head of the planning department II 4 capability development domain effect (land, air, naval forces / special forces of the Bundeswehr).

Service as an admiral

In February 2017, Holm succeeded Flotilla Admiral Frank Lenski as commander of the naval support command. On this post he was promoted to flotilla admiral himself.

Web links

• Military vita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Change in the naval support command. In: Wilhelmshavener Zeitung. February 1, 2017, accessed November 16, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Change of command in the naval support command. In: https://www.presseportal.de/ . PIZ German Navy, January 27, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2019 .