Manfred Engelhardt (General)

Manfred Engelhardt (born June 19, 1951 in Minden / Westphalia ) is a lieutenant general a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . In his last employment, he was Deputy Inspector of the Armed Forces Base in the Armed Forces Base Command .

Military career

After graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, Engelhardt entered the service of the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate on July 1, 1969 and was transferred to training company 408 in Munster . After completing his officer training , he served in Munster from 1972 to 1980 in the Panzerlehrbataillon 93 as platoon leader , intelligence officer ( S2 ) and company commander . From September 1980 to 1982 he completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . Engelhardt was then transferred to Augustdorf and served in the local armored brigade 21 as head of the logistics department (G4). In 1985 he completed a course at the Staff College of the British Army in Camberley in the United Kingdom . He was then transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he worked as a consultant for military policy and arms control in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü S III). From 1987 to 1989 Engelhardt was a military employee of the Science and Politics Foundation in Ebenhausen . He then took over a troop command again and commanded tank battalion 244 in Landshut until 1991 .

From 1991 to 1993 he worked again in the Federal Ministry of Defense, this time as a security policy advisor in the planning staff of Federal Ministers Gerhard Stoltenberg and Volker Rühe . Engelhardt was then transferred to Unna and served there until 1994 in the operations department (G3) of the 7th Panzer Division under Major General Götz Gliemeroth . Subsequently, he was group leader of the staff department for operations of the military area command III / 7 until 1995 . Armored Division. Engelhardt was then transferred back to Bonn and served there from 1995 to 1998 as head of the department for military policy bases for operations and exercises in the command staff of the armed forces (Fü S III 6). In 1999 he completed a course at the Royal College of Defense Studies in London. From 1999 to 2001 Engelhardt was the commander of the 7th Panzer Grenadier Brigade and during this time from October 2000 to April 2001 he was also the assistant chief of staff for operations at the KFOR headquarters in Kosovo . After this foreign assignment, Engelhardt was transferred back to the Federal Ministry of Defense and served there from 2001 to 2004 as a department head in the command staff of the armed forces, responsible for operations by the German armed forces (Fü SV). On March 31, 2004, Brigadier General Engelhardt took command of the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen until May 9, 2006 . In April 2006 he finally took over as major general the post of chief of staff in the command staff of the armed forces under General Wolfgang Schneiderhan . He gave this post to Flotilla Admiral Manfred Nielson in spring 2008 and took over the post of commander of the armed forces support command in the Wahn air force barracks in February of this year . In this role he was appointed lieutenant general. In his last employment, he was Deputy Inspector of the Armed Forces Base in the Armed Forces Base Command from October 1, 2011 , before he was retired with a big tattoo. His successor in office was Erich Pfeffer .

Web links

• Official biography

Individual evidence

1. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Berlin April 3, 2006, p. 1 ( PDF ( Memento from May 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military positions. BMVg press and information staff, February 8, 2008, archived from the original on June 15, 2008 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Streitkraeftebasis.de: Thank you in goodbye. Streitkraeftebasis.de, August 29, 2013, accessed on September 2, 2013 .