Manfred Hofmann (General)

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Manfred Hofmann (2016)

Manfred Hofmann (* 18th June 1954 in Kaiserslautern ) is a lieutenant general of the army of the Bundeswehr in retirement.

Military career

Training and first uses

Promotions

After graduating from high school in July 1974, Manfred Hofmann joined the 3rd Company of Jäger Battalion 471 in Oberbexbach in the service of the Bundeswehr. After two and a half years in the NCO career , he switched to the officer career and completed the officer course at the artillery missile school in Geilenkirchen . In October 1977, he participated in the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg a teaching degree , and in 1979 to lieutenant promoted.

After completion of academic training, he returned in 1981 in the troupe and became missiles officer / artillery officer during rocket artillery (RakArtBtl) 350 in Montabaur . In the same year he was promoted to first lieutenant . In 1985 he became battery chief of the 4th battery / RakArtBtl 350 and was promoted to captain .

General staff training and service as a staff officer

From 1988 to 1990 Hofmann completed the 31st Army General Staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . He was then promoted to major and was employed as a staff officer at the armed forces office with service in the personnel department (P III 4 / P III 9) of the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . In 1992 he was employed as a staff officer for operations planning ( G3 ) at the III. Corps in Koblenz under the command of Lieutenant General Peter Heinrich Carstens .

In 1993 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and commander of the rocket artillery training battalion 52 in Idar-Oberstein . In 1996 he was in the Federal Ministry of Defense (III 1 P) and 1997 Speaker in the department personnel, social and Central Affairs (PSZ IV 3) Officer in the Department of Personnel. In 1999 he became head of department I 1 in the personnel office of the Bundeswehr in Cologne ; in 2000 he was made a colonel . In 2001 he became head of division in the department PSZ IV 4; from 2002 to 2004 he was Head of Unit PSZ I 4.

Service in the rank of general

Manfred Hofmann, right (2016)

Hofmann received his second troop command in 2004 when he was entrusted with the leadership of the 21st Panzer Brigade in Augustdorf , which he took over from Robert Bergmann . In 2005 he was appointed Brigadier General. During this assignment he completed his first foreign assignment from July 2005 to March 2006 as part of Operation Althea . There he served as Chief of Staff at the EUFOR headquarters in Sarajevo under the command of the Italian Major General Gian Marco Chiarini .

Back in Germany, in June 2006, he handed over command of Panzer Brigade 21 to Jürgen Weigt . Hofmann himself was transferred to the Army Command in Koblenz and served there as Chief of Staff under the command of Wolfgang Otto and Carl-Hubertus von Butler . On August 14, 2009, he finally handed this position over to Carsten Jacobson . Hofmann was transferred to Cologne , where he took over command of the Bundeswehr headquarters from Rainer Korff on September 24, 2009 . With effect from October 1, 2009, he was appointed major general. As of December 1, 2012, the Bundeswehr headquarters was integrated into the Bundeswehr Personnel Management Office, of which Hofmann was Vice President until May 31, 2015. On August 13, 2015, he took over command of the Multinational Corps North-East from the Polish Lieutenant General Bogusław Samol as commanding general . He developed the headquarters of this corps within three years from the status of “lower readiness” to that of a “high readiness force land headquarter”.

On September 20, 2018, he was retired in Bonn with a big tattoo .

Awards

Private

Manfred Hofmann is married.

swell

  • Manfred Sadlowski (Ed.): Handbook of the Bundeswehr and Defense Industry 2007/2008 . Bernard & Graefe publishing house, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7637-6276-7 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Berlin April 3, 2006, p. 2 ( PDF ( Memento from May 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
  2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - May 2015. Bundeswehr / BMVg Press and Information Center Personnel, June 3, 2015, accessed on June 23, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Florian Manthey: Multinational Corps Northeast: Germany takes the lead. Bundeswehr, August 13, 2015, accessed on August 17, 2015 .
  4. ↑ ZU GLEICH magazine of the artillery troop, 2/2019, p. 12
  5. ↑ Patrick Ennsle: Lieutenant General Hofmann: "With farewell feeling sad and the need to say thank you". Bundeswehr, September 26, 2018, accessed on October 13, 2018 .
  6. ↑ MEDAL 100-LECIA DLA GENERAŁA HOFMANNA
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Kaiserslautern