Manfred Eisele

Manfred Eisele

Manfred Siegbert Eisele (born March 17, 1938 in Wilhelmshaven ) is a major general a. D. of the Army of the German Armed Forces and was Assistant Secretary General for Planning and Support of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations (UN) from 1994 to 1998 .

Life

Military career

Training and first uses

After high school at Hamburg High School Blankenese stepped Eisele 1957 as a gunner in the field artillery regiment in pastures in the service of the Bundeswehr. After training as an officer in the artillery at the Heeresoffizierschule II in Husum , he was promoted to lieutenant . From 1959 to 1963 he served as platoon leader in the field artillery battalion 41 in Landshut . From 1963 to 1966 Eisele was employed as captain and battery chief in the 125 armored artillery battalion in Bayreuth .

General staff training and service as a staff officer

From 1966 to 1969 he served as a lecture hall director at the Army NCO School I in Sonthofen . Subsequently, from 1969 to 1971, first completed the general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and then the US general staff training at the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . After being promoted to major , Eisele took over the post of General Staff Officer ( G1 ) in the staff of the 5th Panzer Division in Diez in 1971 . In 1974 he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served as a consultant in the personnel department until 1977.

After these staff assignments, Eisele took over a year-long troop command as a lieutenant colonel with the 125 armored artillery battalion in Bayreuth. In 1978 he was transferred to Bonn again and served there as adjutant to the inspector of the army under Lieutenant General Horst Hildebrandt and Johannes Poeppel . In 1980 Eisele was promoted to colonel and took over the post of head of public relations in the Bundeswehr. Again after only one year he took on another post in the ministry, this time that of the head of the personnel department (generals / general staff officers).

Service in the rank of general and in the United Nations

In 1984 Eisele graduated from the London Royal College of Defense Studies and in the same year, on October 1, 1984, took command of Panzergrenadierbrigade 17 in Hamburg. In this position he was promoted to Brigadier General in 1987 . December 31, 1988, he was the Brigade and was in the NATO command Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) to Mons in Belgium transferred, where he Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Europe , the German General Eberhard Eimler ordnance planning, as department head served.

Back in Germany, Eisele was promoted to major general from 1991 to 1992 as the head of the military policy / strategy department in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS III) under the general inspector of the Bundeswehr, General Klaus Naumann . From April 1, 1992 to March 31, 1994 he commanded the 12th Panzer Division in Veitshöchheim . In 1994 he took over the post of Chief of the Armed Forces for a short time , only to be transferred to New York a little later and there from 1994 to 1998 as Assistant Secretary General for Planning and Support of Peacekeeping Operations of the United Nations (Assistant Secretary General for Planning and Support, Main Department Peacekeeping Measures, DPKO). In this capacity he was the chief military advisor to the secretaries-general Boutros Boutros-Ghali and Kofi Annan . In 1998 Eisele was awarded the Dag Hammarskjöld Medal of Honor and he finally retired.

After retirement

From 1992 to 1994 Eisele was already a lecturer for international politics at the University of Applied Sciences Würzburg-Schweinfurt and since his retirement in 1998 has been giving lectures and lectures. a. at the NATO Defense College in Rome , the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg, the universities of Bochum, Chemnitz, Eichstätt, Heidelberg, Konstanz, Munich, Padua, at political academies and foundations.

As a member of the “Common Security and Future of the Bundeswehr” commission (so-called Weizsäcker Commission ), he warned in 2000 against giving up compulsory military service in Germany.

In 2000 and 2002 he was head of the UN commission that assessed the situation in Sierra Leone on behalf of the Secretary General ("Eisele Mission"). In 2002 he was on the same mission in Guinea / Liberia and DR Congo / Rwanda . He is also an advisor for international politics, strategy, logistics and advises the Department of Peacekeeping Operation (DPKO) of the United Nations, which he continued to head between 1994 and 1998.

Eisele published the book “The United Nations and International Crisis Management. An inside report ”, in which he outlines the internal state of the United Nations with regard to crisis interventions.

He is a member and was spokesman for the advisory board of the Clausewitz Society . He is an assessor in the Presidium of the German Atlantic Society , a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations and in the scientific advisory board of the delegation of the University of Würzburg for the National Model United Nations Conference (NMUN).

Fonts (selection)

• The United Nations and international crisis management. An inside report. Knecht, Frankfurt 2002, ISBN 3-7820-0850-2 .

literature

• Ekkehard Griep (ed.): Of the peace general. Manfred Eisele - from war refugee to top blue helmet . Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau a. a. 2013, ISBN 978-3-451-30743-0 .

Web links

Commons : Manfred Eisele  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• resume
• Schweizerzeit.ch about Eisele's book
• Eisele's lecture: Will the United Nations remain relevant? (PDF, 2004; 38 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manfred Eisele: Carl von Clausewitz and international conflicts - Peacekeeping of the United Nations . In: Clausewitz-Gesellschaft (Ed.): Yearbook 2008 . Volume 4, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-9810794-3-2 , p. 125.
2. ↑ http://www.dgvn.de/ueber-uns/organisation/praesidium/