List of generals in the German Air Force

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This list contains all Air Force uniform wearers including medical officers.

Active generals in the Air Force

All officers are listed according to their posts, even if they have not (yet) reached the corresponding rank.

Luftwaffe-341-General.png general

Rank Surname vintage function Area Entry into service
gene currently no soldier in this rank

Luftwaffe-331-Generalleutnant.png Lieutenant General

Rank Surname vintage function Area Entry into service
GenLt Christian Badia 1963 Head of the Planning Department in the Federal Ministry of Defense BMVg 01st October 2018
GenLt Ingo Gerhartz 1965 Air Force Inspector Lw 20th May 2018
GenLt Ansgar Rieks 1959 Deputy Inspector of the Air Force Lw 29th September 2017
GenLt Klaus Habersetzer 1957 Commander Center Air Operations
and Executive Director Joint Air Power Competence Center in Kalkar
Lw September 24, 2018
GenLt Helmut Schütz 1956 Commanding General Air Force Command Lw September 24, 2015
GenLt Martin Schelleis 1959 Force Base Inspector SKB 0October 6, 2015
GenLt Jürgen Knappe 1957 Commander Multinational Command Operational Command SKB 01st February 2018
GenLt Ludwig Leinhos 1957 Cyber ​​and information space inspector CIR 0April 1, 2017
GenLt Thorsten Poschwatta 1961 Chief of Staff, Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan NATO 0April 9, 2020
GenLt Michael Vetter 1962 Head of Department Cyber ​​and Information Technology (CIT) in the Federal Ministry of Defense . BMVg 0April 8, 2019

Luftwaffe-321-Major-General.png Major general

Rank Surname vintage function Area Entry into service
GenMaj Wolfgang Gäbelein 1960 Head of the planning office of the Bundeswehr BMVg June 28, 2019
GenMaj Walter Chicken 1958 Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff Center Air Operations Lw 29th March 2018
GenMaj Lutz Kohlhaus 1961 Vice Chairman of the NATO Air and Missile Defense Committee in Brussels , Belgium Lw 01st September 2019
GenMaj Günter Katz 1962 Head of the Federal Armed Forces Aviation Office BMVg 01st July 2018
GenMaj Jan Kuebart 1966 Commander of flying formations in the air force command Lw 01st July 2018
GenMaj Wolfgang Ohl 1966 Chief of Staff Command Air Force Lw 01st October 2019
GenMaj Franz Weidhüner 1958 Chief of the Armed Forces Office SKB 15th December 2017
GenMaj Bernhardt Schlaak 1959 Deputy Commanding General and Chief of Staff Air Force Command Lw 22nd August 2019
GenMaj Karsten Stoye 1962 Chief of Staff Allied Air Command , Ramstein NATO 01st March 2019
GenMaj Wolfgang Renner 1959 Deputy Chief of Staff (DCoS) CIR and Cyber ​​Defense at SHAPE in Mons , Belgium NATO 0April 1, 2018
GenMaj Jörg Lebert 1960 Commander NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Force Command , Geilenkirchen NATO 01st July 2018
GenStArzt Gesine Kruger 1959 Commander of the Medical Academy of the Bundeswehr ZSan 0June 1, 2016

Luftwaffe-311-Brigadegeneral.png Brigadier General

Rank Surname vintage function Area Entry into service
BrigGen Markus Alder 1966 Head of Department Support in the Air Force Command Lw 0October 1, 2017
BrigGen Michael Bartscher 1958 Use by the Deputy Inspector of the Air Force Lw 0October 1, 2017
BrigGen Frank Best 1964 Director of NATO Advisory and Liaison Team KFOR NATO 0April 1, 2020
BrigGen Andreas Delp 1964 Head of the German Liaison Command USCENTCOM , Tampa , Florida / USA SKB 01st July 2018
BrigGen Marcus Ellermann 1967 Head of Department 2 (Military Policy) German Representation NATO , Brussels, Belgium NATO 0October 1, 2017
BrigGen Armin Fleischmann 1965 Head of the Planning Department in the Cyber ​​and Information Room Command CIR 05th April 2017
BrigGen Richard outrage 1960 Head of the Personnel Department in the Air Force Command Lw 0July 7, 2016
BrigGen Gerald Funke 1964 Head of Department Planning I in the Federal Ministry of Defense BMVg 0December 1, 2016
BrigGen Frank Graefe 1968 Defense attaché in the military attaché staff, Washington DC / USA AA 01st September 2018
General practitioner Bernhard Gross 1965 General physician in aviation medicine for the Bundeswehr and head of the Center for Aerospace Medicine in the Air Force Lw March 26, 2020
BrigGen Michael Gschossmann 1960 General Manager of the NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Program Management Organization NATO 01st January 2019
BrigGen Thomas Hambach 1962 Commander State Command Bavaria SKB 01st October 2019
BrigGen Ralf Hoffmann 1963 Commander of the Bundeswehr IT system operations center CIR 18th August 2018
BrigGen Gerhard Hewera 1958 Commander support units in the air force command Lw 01st February 2017
BrigGen Michael Hogrebe 1965 Commander of the ground-based units of the air force command Lw March 12, 2019
BrigGen Andreas Hoppe 1965 Head of Air Force Command Lw 01st July 2018
BrigGen Peter Klement 1959 Assistant Chief of Staff J9 Joint Force Command Naples , Naples / Italy NATO 0July 1, 2020
BrigGen Burkhard Kollmann 1960 Head of Multinational lead in the center of air operations and Combined Air Operations Center Lw 0November 9, 2018
Colonel Andreas Korb 1964 General aviation safety in the aviation office of the Bundeswehr BMVg 0July 1, 2020
BrigGen Markus Kurczyk 1964 Commander of the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania regional command NATO 01st February 2019
BrigGen Christian Leitges 1966 Head of Department I Further development and planning in the Air Force Command Lw 01st January 2019
BrigGen Stefan Lüth 1966 Head of Department Armed Forces II in the Federal Ministry of Defense , Bonn BMVg 01st January 2019
BrigGen Rudolf Maus 1958 Director of Logistics Operations in the NATO Support and Procurement Agency NATO 05th January 2015
BrigGen Tilo Maedler 1966 Head of Department Armed Forces III in the Federal Ministry of Defense , Berlin BMVg 01st October 2018
BrigGen Holger Neumann 1968 Director of training at the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy , Hamburg BMVg September 27, 2018
BrigGen Christoph Pliet 1962 Deputy Commander Deployable Air Command and Control Center, Poggio Renatico / Italy NATO 01st January 2019
BrigGen Burkhard Pototzky 1957 Head of Operations and Head of the Air Force Operations Center in the Air Operations Center Lw 0July, 1st 2013
BrigGen Ralf Raddatz 1958 Defense attaché in the military attaché staff, London / GBR AA 0August 1, 2017
BrigGen Frank Reiland 1967 Department Head II Personnel Recruitment in the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr , Cologne staff 01st November 2018
BrigGen Olaf von Roeder 1960 Commander State Command Hesse SKB March 24, 2017
BrigGen Volker Sammans 1962 General Manager NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance Management Agency (NAGSMA), Brussels, Belgium NATO 01st January 2018
BrigGen Stefan Scheibl 1963 Commander of the Air Force Officers School Lw August 14, 2020
BrigGen Andreas Schick 1961 Chief of Staff of the European Air Transport Command (EATC) MNEU June 28, 2017
General practitioner Nicole Schilling 1974 Second Vice President at the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr, Cologne staff 0April 1, 2019
BrigGen Thomas Seifert 1965 Deputy Chief of Staff Support in the Multinational Command Operational Leadership SKB 0November 1, 2016
BrigGen Bernd Stockmann 1967 Head of Department II Operation Command Air Force Lw 01st January 2018
BrigGen Friedhelm Tränapp 1963 SHAPE ACOS Res, J1, Personnel NATO 01st July 2019
BrigGen Michael Traut 1964 Course participant at the Royal College of Defense Studies, London / GBR Lw August 14, 2020
Colonel Robert Wilhelm 1967 Deputy Commander Logistics Command of the Bundeswehr SKB 01st October 2019

1955 to 1990

The following section contains an incomplete list of all officers in the rank group of the Air Force Generals of the Bundeswehr, who were appointed up until German reunification.

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1990 until today

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See also

literature

  • Handbook of the Bundeswehr and Defense Industry , various years, Bernard & Graefe publishing house, Bonn.
  • Heinz-Peter Würzenthal: Complete list of generals and admirals in the Bundeswehr 1955–1990. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück 1990. ISBN 3-7648-1783-6 .
  • Heinz-Peter Würzenthal: The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr 1955–1997 / 1955–1999. 4 vols. Biblio Verlag, Osnabrück and Bissendorf 1998–2005.