Air Force Office

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Air Force Office
- LwA -

COA LwA.svg


Internal association badge (coat of arms)
active May 1, 1956
(as a department for central air force tasks ) to June 30, 2013
Country GermanyGermany Germany
Armed forces Bundeswehr Kreuz.svg armed forces
Armed forces Logo Luftwaffe air force
Type Higher command authority
Subordinate troops

COA LwAusbKdo.svg LwAusbKdo WaSyKdoLw AFSBw General Doctor of the Air Force Air Force Support Group Wahn
WaSysKdo Lw.jpg
AFSBw.svg
Wappen Generalarzt Lw.svg

Insinuation BMVg.svg Air Force Command Staff
Luftwaffe barracks madness Cologne madness
motto The Air Force Office - efficient, competent, future-oriented
management
Head of office Major General Ansgar Rieks
Deputy Head of Office Brigadier General Günter Giesa
Chief of Staff Colonel Jürgen Wöstenfeld

The Air Force Office (LwA) was one of the two higher command authorities of the Air Force (HöhKdoBehLw) based in Cologne-Wahn . From 1956 to 1962 it was called the General Air Force Office . It was dissolved at the end of June 30, 2013.

tasks

The Air Force Office performed central tasks for the Air Force, which did not serve the direct command of operations (the Air Force Command was responsible for this ). In some cases, tasks were performed for the entire Bundeswehr ( flight operations , flight safety ). In the Luftwaffe, the Air Force Office was primarily responsible for general military and technical training for soldiers as well as for the deployment logistics specific to the weapon system.

structure

guide

Organization chart of the Air Force Office
  • Head of office
At the head of the Air Force Office was the head of the office with the rank of major general . He led the Air Force Office and the departments directly subordinate to him.
  • Deputy head of office and head of departments with specialist tasks
The deputy head of office was directly subordinate to the head of office, at the same time he was head of the departments with specialist tasks in the Air Force Office. He held the rank of brigadier general .
  • Chief of Staff
The chief of staff , in the rank of Colonel i. G., led the departments of the staff that served to support the head of office.

Departments

In addition to the staff with the staff departments as specialist departments with special tasks, the Air Force Office also included:

  • the Aviation Safety Department in the Bundeswehr (Abbot FlSichhBw), led by the General Aviation Safety in the Bundeswehr (GenFlSichhBw, unofficially called GenFlusi)
  • the Center for the Development of the Air Force (ZWELw), led by the General Development of the Air Force ,
  • the Air Force Press and Information Center (Abbot PrInfoZLw), which, among other things, managed and updated the Air Force's website,
  • the flight operations department in the Bundeswehr (Abbot FlBtrbBw),
  • the personnel structure, organization, controlling, effort limitation and rationalization department of the Air Force (Abbot POCARLw) and
  • the Luftwaffe Inspection Group (Grp InspizLw).

Allegations

Subordinate to the Air Force Office at the division level

The LwAusbKdo steered the training in the air force and led the air force training regiment as well as the schools of the air force.
The WaSysKdo Lw was responsible for the air force armament and material management of the air force and the flying weapon systems of the armed forces as well as the operational logistics of the air force. He was subordinate to the Air Force Maintenance Regiment 1 in Erding and the Air Force Maintenance Regiment 2 in Diepholz as well as the Weapon System Support Center in Landsberg am Lech .

The following were also subordinate to the Air Force Office:

Heads of office

From 1956 to 1958, Colonel Joachim Schneider was in command.

Period Head of office
April 1, 1958 - June 30, 1961 Brigadier General Hermann Busch
July 1, 1961 - March 31, 1963 Brigadier General Ernst Kusserow
April 1, 1963 - March 31, 1967 Major General Kurt-Gustav Nagel
April 1, 1967 - March 31, 1968 Lieutenant General Helmut Mahlke
April 1, 1968 - June 2, 1971 Lieutenant General Adolf Hempel
July 1, 1971 - September 30, 1975 Lieutenant General Uwe Vogel
October 1, 1975 - June 30, 1976 Lieutenant General Ernst-Dieter Bernhard
October 1, 1976 - September 30, 1977 Lieutenant General Friedrich Obleser
October 1, 1977 - March 31, 1982 Lieutenant General Richard Frodl
April 1, 1982 - September 30, 1984 Lieutenant General Günter Raulf
October 1, 1984 - September 30, 1987 Lieutenant General Paul Sommerhoff
October 1, 1987 - March 31, 1989 Lieutenant General Walter Schmitz
April 1, 1989 - March 31, 1992 Lieutenant General Joachim Sochaczewski
April 1, 1992 - March 31, 1994 Lieutenant General Peter Haarhaus
April 1, 1994 - September 30, 1998 Major General Botho Engelien
October 1, 1998 - September 25, 2002 Major General Jörg Köpke
September 26, 2001 - September 30, 2003 Major General Servatius Maeßen
October 1, 2003 - October 31, 2005 Major General Wolfgang Döring
November 1, 2005 - November 30, 2009 Major General Winfried Graves
November 30, 2009 - December 18, 2012 Major General Peter Funk
December 18, 2012 - June 30, 2013 (dissolution) Major General Ansgar Rieks

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. BMVg: Press release Personnel changes in top military and civil positions. (PDF; 32 kB) (No longer available online.) BMVg, April 20, 2011, archived from the original on July 8, 2011 ; accessed on June 18, 2020 .
  2. Inspector of the Air Force: “Realization plan for taking the Air Force structure” from June 12, 2012
  3. Air Force headquarters (inventory). In: Archive portal. German Digital Library, accessed on June 18, 2020 .