Manfred Lange

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Manfred Lange (* 25. April 1950 in Husum ) is a general of the Air Force of the Armed Forces retired. In his last assignment he was Chief of Staff at NATO Headquarters Europe, the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), from September 23, 2010 to December 10, 2012 .

Military career

Promotions

• 1972 lieutenant
• 1974 first lieutenant
• 1978 captain
• 1984 major
• 1989 Lieutenant Colonel
• 1994 Colonel
• 2000 Brigadier General
• 20 ?? Major general
• 20 ?? Lieutenant General
• 20 ?? general

Training and first uses

Lange joined the Bundeswehr in 1970 and was trained as a radar control and operations officer in the air force. He was also employed as a platoon leader and operations officer in a NATO presentation.

Service as a staff officer

From 1982 to 1984 he completed the 27th general staff course (L) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . Here he was awarded the General Heusinger Prize in recognition of his course performance and he was regularly promoted to major . Subsequently he was deployed as a company commander in the radar command service and then as department head A3a (planning and training) in the staff of the 4th Air Force Division in Aurich .

From 1988 to 1989, Lange served as a staff officer with the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , Lieutenant General Siegfried Storbeck . Lange remained in the Federal Ministry of Defense and took on the post of advisor in the Air Force Command (FüL III 1) responsible for the conception and further development of the Air Force under the command of the Chief of Staff Detlef Wibel and the Deputy Inspector of the Air Force Jürgen Schnell . After Schnell was promoted to Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, Lange served as his adjutant from 1991 to 1993.

From 1993 to 1996, Lange was employed internationally on the staff of the Allied Command Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) in Karup , Denmark , where he served as Head of Planning. Back in Germany Lange took over in Cologne 1996 to 1998 the post of deputy and chief of staff in the Air Force leadership service command under the leadership of Klaus Poetzsch . In 1998, Lange was again transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served until 2000 as head of department for the conception of the armed forces in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS VI 2) under the command of the chief of staff Hartmut Moede .

Service as a general

After being appointed brigadier general , he finally took over the planning department in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS VI) from 2000 to 2003 and thus served under the command of the chief of staff, Egon Ramms .

Between 2003 and 2006, Lange was appointed major general for another international assignment, this time as deputy chairman of the NATO air defense committee at NATO headquarters in Brussels . Back in Germany on November 27, 2006, Lange took over the post of Head of Staff Department for Military Policy and Arms Control in the Command Staff of the Armed Forces (FüS III) under the command of the Chief of Staff, Manfred Engelhardt and then Manfred Nielson . He handed this post over to Karl Müllner and finally succeeded Heinz Marzi in April 2009 as Deputy Inspector of the Air Force. In this role he was appointed lieutenant general. In September 2010, he handed over the post to Norbert Finster , who until then had served as Chief of Staff of the Air Force under him.

Lange was then transferred to Casteau near Mons in Belgium , where he took over the post of Chief of Staff at NATO Headquarters Europe ( SHAPE ) from General Karl-Heinz Lather on September 23, 2010 . There he serves under the Supreme Allied Commander Europe (SACEUR), US Admiral James G. Stavridis . Associated with this was his appointment as general.

Awards

• 1984: General Heusinger Prize
• 2003: Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon

literature

• Dermot Bradley , Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model : The Generals and Admirals of the Bundeswehr, 1955–1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals . Part 6b). Volume 3: Laegeler - Quiel . Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2382-8 , pp. 11-12.

Individual evidence

1. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Press release. Berlin November 3, 2006 ( PDF ( Memento of November 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 4, 2016]).
2. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions (BMVg.de of March 10, 2009)
3. ↑ Griephan letters of February 12, 2010.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl-Heinz Lather	Chief of Staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe 2010–2012	Werner Freers