Manfred Fanslau

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Manfred Fanslau (born February 25, 1929 ) is a former German lieutenant general in the Bundeswehr .

Life

Fanslau was an army officer after his training . As the successor to Colonel Ernst-Wilhelm Schneider , he became Colonel Commander of the Panzer Grenadier Brigade 35 in Hammelburg on July 1, 1976 and held this post until March 31, 1979. On April 1, 1979, Brigadier General Gerd Röhrs succeeded him there. He was then from 1979 to 1981 as Brigadier General Unterabteilungleiter III (Army) of the personnel department in the Federal Ministry of Defense .

In 1981 Fanslau became major general and replaced Major General Werner Schäfer as commander of the 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division in Kassel . He held this position until 1984 and was then replaced by Major General Carl-Helmuth Lichel .

Most recently, Fanslau became the successor of the retired Lieutenant General Hans Kubis as head of the personnel department in the Federal Ministry of Defense on October 1, 1984 and received his promotion to Lieutenant General in this role. In this function he was involved in 1984 together with the then Inspector of the Army , Lieutenant General Hans-Henning von Sandrart , in two controversial promotion proposals that Federal Defense Minister Manfred Wörner wanted to make in 1985, on the one hand the former Minister Adjutant Colonel Jörg Schönbohm as Brigadier General and Brigadier General Hartmut Behrendt to major general. Both officers were in the so-called Kiessling affair involved, in 1984 the then Deputy NATO - Commander Europe General Günter Kiessling blackmail because of his alleged homosexuality was accused. Fanslau was retired on March 31, 1988, whereupon Lieutenant General Dieter Clauss became his successor on April 1, 1988 as head of the personnel department in the Federal Ministry of Defense.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry , Verlag Wehr & Wissen, 1979, p. 41
  2. ↑ Europäische Wehrkunde , Volume 30, Verlag Europäische Wehrkunde, 1981, p. 275
  3. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: Die Bundeswehr 1955–1995 , Verlag Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 18
  4. ^ The 2nd Panzer Grenadier Division
  5. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: Die Bundeswehr 1955–1995 , Verlag Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 21
  6. ↑ Dieter E. Kilian : Elite in the penumbra: Generale and Admirale der Bundeswehr , Verlag Osning, 2005, p. 527, ISBN 3-98062-683-0
  7. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: Die Bundeswehr 1955–1995 , Verlag Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 14
  8. ↑ ARMY: Against the memory. Two soldiers involved in the Kießling affair are now promoted - a reward for loyalty to Minister Wörner? . In: Der Spiegel from January 7, 1985
  9. ^ Wehrtechnik , Volume 20, Verlag Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, 1988, p. 8
  10. ↑ Dieter E. Kilian: Elite in the penumbra: Generale and Admirale der Bundeswehr , Verlag Osning, 2005, p. 527, ISBN 3-98062-683-0
  11. ↑ Reinhard Teuber: Die Bundeswehr 1955-1995 , Verlag Militair-Verlag KD Patzwall, 1996, p. 269
personal data
SURNAME Fanslau, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Lieutenant General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH February 25, 1929