Manfred Schlenker (General)

Manfred Schlenker (* 16 January 1951 in Brockhöfe ) is a Major General of the Army of the Armed Forces retired. In his last assignment, he was head of the Bundeswehr Personnel Office from November 16, 2006 .

Life

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from high school in Uelzen in 1969 , Schlenker joined the German Armed Forces. From 1970 he was trained as an officer with the 261 parachute battalion in Lebach . From 1972 to 1973 further training took place at the officers' school in Munich . From 1974 to 1976 he was a platoon leader in Rotenburg (Wümme) . From 1976 to 1978 he served as a youth officer in the 6th Panzer Grenadier Division in Neumünster .

From 1978 to 1980, Hauptmann Schlenker was employed as head of inspection at the Army Aviation Weapons School in Bückeburg .

Service as a staff officer

From 1981 to 1983 Schlenker completed the 24th national general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and was then promoted to major . From 1983 to 1985 he was an exercise staff officer ( G3 ) at the Office for Studies and Exercises of the Bundeswehr under the direction of the chief of staff , Flotilla Admiral Elmar Schmähling . Here he served together with Major Wolf-Joachim Clauss , with whom he had previously completed his general staff training.

In 1985 Schlenker was transferred to Wentorf , where he served as an operations officer (G3) on the staff of Panzergrenadierbrigade 16 under the command of Brigadier General Jürgen von Falkenhayn until 1987 . Following this assignment, Schlenker returned to the leadership academy and worked there from 1987 to 1988 as a lecturer in troop leadership. From 1988 to 1991 Schlenker served in the Danish Karup in the headquarters of the Allied Command Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) as a branch chief . Back in Germany, he was deployed from 1991 to 1993 as department commander of the aircraft technology department 152 in Rheine . He was then transferred to Unna , where he served in the 7th Panzer Division from 1993 to 1994 as a staff officer (G1) under the command of Major General Götz Gliemeroth . Even after the division was renamed, it remained under military area command III / 7. Panzer division at his post, but now in Düsseldorf .

In 1996 he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where Schlenker was employed as head of department in the personnel department (P III 4) until 1997. Subsequently he served until 1998, also in Bonn, as head of the army department in the personnel office of the Bundeswehr . From 1998 to 2000 he was head of the personnel department in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS I) under the direction of Major General Hartmut Moede and Rear Admiral Jörg Auer .

Service in the rank of general

It was joined by a troop command from 2000 to 2003. Schlenker took over command of Luftlandebrigade 26 in Saarlouis and was appointed Brigadier General in this assignment. During this time he also completed a foreign assignment as part of the ISAF in Afghanistan , where he was commander of the German contingent and commander of the Kabul Multinational Brigade (KMNB) from June to December 2002 . The KMNB was a 3,600-man brigade to which around three-quarters of the German soldiers stationed in Afghanistan belonged at the time. The KMNB was responsible for the tactical guidance of the ISAF and organized, among other things, the patrols in the Afghan capital Kabul. Colonel Werner Freers served as his chief of staff in Kabul until July. In December Schlenker handed over command of the KMNB to the Freers who had been appointed Brigadier General.

From 2003 to 2006 Schlenker took on the post of Head of Staff Department I Personnel, Training and Organization in the Army Command (FüH I), under the command of Major General Hans-Otto Budde and Volker Wieker . On December 16, 2006, Schlenker took over from Major General Wolfgang Born at the Cologne site as head of the Bundeswehr Personnel Office. In this employment he was appointed major general.

Private

Schlenker is married and has two children.

literature

• Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 2007/2008. ISBN 978-3-7637-6276-7 .

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]).