Leopold Chalupa

Leopold Chalupa, 1986.

Leopold Chalupa (born August 15, 1927 in Neuberg , Czechoslovakia ) is a retired German general . D. and was Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces Central Europe (CINCENT, NATO ) from 1983 to 1987 .

Life

The General Chalupa was before this NATO use from 1 October 1981 to 30 September 1983 as a lieutenant general commander of the II. Corps of the German Army ( Bundeswehr ) in Ulm . He acquired important career foundations at the beginning of his officer career in Hann. Münden . Here he was from 1957 to 1961 a. a. Active as S3 officer and company commander in Panzer Engineer Battalion 5 and Engineer Battalion 2.

Chalupa was drafted into the German armed forces in 1945 at the age of 17 . At the end of the war he went into British captivity, from which he was only released four years later due to his earlier training at a national political educational institution (also known as Napola).

Chalupa was president of the Alemannia Aachen sports club from 1990 to 1992 and has been honorary president since 2014. He is the bearer of the Order of Merit on Ribbon (1975) and the Great Federal Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and an honorary citizen of his place of birth. Chalupa has been a member of the Aachen-Prague cultural association since 1998 and was awarded the Karl IV cultural prize on September 24, 2017 .

Web links

• Biography at Munziger
• Tireless fighting nature for peace and football in: Aachener Zeitung from August 14, 2012
• Article in the Aachener Volkszeitung from August 14, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kulturverein Aachen-Prag honors Leopold Chalupa , in: Aachener Nachrichten of September 25, 2017, p. 29

predecessor	Office	successor
Ferdinand von Senger and Etterlin	Commander in Chief, Allied Forces Central Europe 1983–1987	Hans-Henning von Sandrart