Manfred Hofmeyer

Manfred Hofmeyer (born April 11, 1950 ) is a Brigadier General a. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . Most recently (since 2006) he was deputy commander of the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen .

Life

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from high school in 1968, Hofmeyer began his officer training in the Bundeswehr as an officer candidate. Until 1971, the training was to artillery officer at the Artillery School in Idar-Oberstein and the army officers' school I . From 1971 to 1975 he served in the rocket artillery battalion 52 as a battery and fire control officer and in the artillery training battery 2 / III as a platoon leader in general basic training . He was then transferred to the 350 rocket artillery battalion in Montabaur . There he was an intelligence officer ( S2 ), battery chief of a ( Lance battery ) and chief of the accompanying battery until 1980 .

Service as a staff officer

By 1982 Hofmeyer had completed the 23rd national general staff course (LGAN) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and was finally promoted to major . Until 1984 he was the logistics staff officer (G4) in Sigmaringen in the staff of the 29th Panzer Brigade under the command of Heribert Göttelmann . In 1984 he was transferred to the Central Army Group (CENTAG) in Heidelberg as an operations planning officer (G3). From 1987 to 1989 he was a consultant for army development in the command staff of the army (FüH VI 3).

From 1989 to 1991 Hofmeyer was lieutenant colonel and commander of the 122 rocket artillery battalion in Philippsburg . Subsequently, he was organizational consultant in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS IV 1) until 1994 and until 1997 consultant in the office of State Secretaries Jörg Schönbohm and Gunnar Simon .

Hofmeyer served as a staff officer at the Chief of Staff of the FüS until 2000 under Hartmut Moede and Jörg Auer .

He then served as G3 of the Wehrbereichskommando V / 10th Panzer Division under the command of Karl-Heinz Lather and completed his first foreign assignment as part of the KFOR as Chief of Staff of the Multinational Brigade South and contingent leader of the German Army Contingent KFOR in Prizren . Back in Sigmaringen in 2001, he took over the post of Chief of Staff (CdS) of the Defense District Command V / 10 as a colonel . Panzer division under the command of Jan Oerding . With him he had completed the general staff training. After renaming to “10. Panzerdivision ”in the same year he stayed at the CdS until 2003.

In 2003 Hofmeyer was transferred to the Ministry of Defense in Berlin, where he was employed as office manager and personnel officer for Parliamentary State Secretary Hans Georg Wagner ( SPD ) and, from 2005, Christian Schmidt ( CSU ). In 2006 Hofmeyer completed the seminar for security policy at the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin.

Service in the rank of general

In 2006 he was transferred to the 10th Panzer Division as deputy division commander, where he was under the command of Markus Bentler . During this assignment, he was deployed abroad in 2007 as part of the KFOR in Pristina as Chief de Cabinet / Chief of Staff under the KFOR commander Roland Kather . On December 16, 2009 Hofmeyer took over the post from Benedikt Zimmer in Kosovo as commander of the Multinational Battle Group South and commander of the German contingent in Prizren. He handed this task over to Stephan Thomas on June 24, 2010 . From September 2010 until his retirement in April 2012, he led the 10th PzDiv independently.

Private

Hofmeyer has three children with his late wife. Since 2015 he has been the first chairman of the Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt eV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of Friends of the Defense History Museum Schloss Rastatt eV , WGM, accessed on January 27, 2016.