Manfred Dietrich (officer)

Manfred Dietrich (born February 15, 1944 in Kaltenkirchen ) is a retired German officer ( Lieutenant General retired ). From 2001 to 2005 he was Deputy Inspector of the Army .

Military background

Promotions

• 1966 lieutenant
• 1968 first lieutenant
• 1971 captain
• 1977 major
• 1981 Lieutenant Colonel
• 1986 Colonel
• 1991 Brigadier General
• 1995 Major General
• 2001 Lieutenant General

Dietrich joined the Bundeswehr in 1964 . First in the training company 11/3 in Hamburg, he was then trained as an officer in Hamburg and Munster. From 1966 to 1968 he was platoon leader in the 92nd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Munster. In 1968 he became an orderly officer in the HQ Allied Forces Central Europe (AFCENT) in Brunssum. 1970/71 he was S1 / 2 in Panzergrenadierbataillon 332 in Fürstenau. From 1971 to 1975 he was company commander in the Panzergrenadierlehrbataillon 92 in Munster.

From 1975 to 1977 he took part in the 18th general staff course (H) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. In 1977 he became G4 in the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 17 in Hamburg. 1979/80 he went through the Command and General Staff College (CGSC) of the US Army in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas. From 1980 to 1982 he was a General Staff Officer at the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Lieutenant General Helmut Heinz , in Bonn. From 1982 to 1984 he was in command of the 72nd Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Hamburg. In 1984 he moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn as speaker P III 9 . From 1986 to 1988 he was adjutant to the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , Lieutenant General Horst Jungkurth and Lieutenant General Siegfried Storbeck . In 1989 he attended the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London. From 1989 to 1991 he was in command of Panzer Grenadier Brigade 1 in Hildesheim.

In 1991 he became head of department in the command staff of the Army (Fü HI) and in 1992 in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü SI) in Bonn. From 1995 to 1997 Dietrich was commander in the military area command I / commander of the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division in Kiel, which was then decommissioned. From 1998 to 2001 he was employed in the Army Office . From 2001 to 2005 he held the post of Deputy Inspector of the Army (InspH) and was replaced by Lieutenant General Jürgen Ruwe .

Others

Dietrich was u. a. Member of the Board of Trustees of the Society for Defense and Security Policy , President of the German Army Support Group and Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the service company steep GmbH.

Awards

• 1977: General Heusinger Prize
• Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

• Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 1: Adam - Fuhr . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 1998, ISBN 3-7648-2492-1 , pp. 382-383.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dpa: Struck relocates General Dietrich . Abendblatt.de, January 21, 2004.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Briefly presented , gsp-sipo.de, accessed on November 13, 2015.
3. ↑ Imprint , steep.de, accessed on January 13, 2019.