Marcel Bohnert

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Marcel Bohnert (* 1979 in Schwerin ) is a German officer ( lieutenant colonel i. G. ) and author.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1997, he joined the army of the German Armed Forces as a sergeant candidate . In 2002 he switched to the career of military service officers ; his current rank is a lieutenant colonel of the armored infantry troop .

Assignments abroad took him to task forces as a group leader in Kosovo (1999/2000) and as head of an infantry company in Afghanistan (2011/2012). In Kunduz , he and his men and women were responsible for security in the Chahar Darreh troubled district for six months .

From 2004 to 2008 he studied pedagogy at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and psychology at the Central Connecticut State University in the USA. He then became head of a student department group and completed general staff training (LGAN) at the command and control academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. He is the author of numerous book and magazine articles, u. a. he publishes regularly in the yearbook Innereführung .

According to the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, his book Army on the Move , published in 2014, is the “most important soldier self-confession of the past decades”. The publication was discussed controversially in the professional world, as some authors speak out against the principles of inner guidance . Even before the appearance of the Army on the Move, Bohnert himself took the view, contrary to the conception, that being a soldier was a job sui generis . In more recent publications he also emphasizes fighting as a core mission and unique selling point of the armed forces.

In 2017 he caused a sensation in the developing crisis of the Bundeswehr with an article in the name of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung because he criticized the lack of public statements by the generals. Bohnert was "the first soldier in years to speak out in public with this clarity."

He is currently head of the “New Media” department at the Federal Office for Personnel Management in the Bundeswehr. He was involved in a highly controversial guerrilla marketing campaign by the Bundeswehr at the re: publica digital conference and was the project manager for a web series about the KSK .

Publications (selection)

  • with Christian Bauer, Jan Pahl: Vitalis Inner Leadership! On the status quo of the leadership culture in the German armed forces (= standpoints and orientations . Vol. 12). Miles: Berlin, 2018, ISBN 978-3-945861-79-0 .
  • with Andy Neumann: L'infanterie mécanisée allemande au combat en Afghanistan . Maison d'édition des anciens combattants / DeutscherVeteranenVerlag, Hamburg, 2018.
  • Inner leadership put to the test. Lessons learned from the Bundeswehr's mission in Afghanistan DeutscherVeteranenVerlag / GermanVeteransPublishing, Hamburg, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-9902-4 .
  • with Andy Neumann: German Mechanized Infantry on Combat Operations in Afghanistan (= Book Series: German Veterans Publishing / Maison d'edition d'anciens combattans). Carola Hartmann Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-945861-45-5 .
  • with Björn Schreiber (ed.): The invisible veterans. War returnees in German society (published for the Bund Deutscher EinsatzVeteranen ). Carola Hartmann Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945861-27-1 .
  • with Florian Beerenkämper , Anja Buresch, Sandra Matuszewski: The inner-Afghan peace and reconciliation process. Conclusions for the future German participation in international operations for crisis management in fragile states (= standpoints and orientations . Vol. 8). Carola Hartmann Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945861-40-0 .
  • with Lukas J. Reitstetter (Ed.): Army on the move. On the thoughts of young officers in the combat troops of the Bundeswehr . Carola Hartmann Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-937885-98-8 .
  • On dealing with the burdened past in post-genocidal Rwanda (= contemporary history . Vol. 12). Roderer, Regensburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89783-621-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Marcel Bohnert: Why I remain a soldier . In: Loyal - magazine for security policy . No. 10 , 2014, ISSN  0343-0103 , p. 25th f .
  2. ↑ Nowitzki, Manja (2012): The fear is daily companion, In: Schweriner Volkszeitung, January 24, 2012, p. 3 (Link full text: http://www.nnn.de/incoming/die-angst-ist-taeglicher -begleiter-id4281306.html )
  3. ↑ Ready to fight: German soldiers' Afghan mission shifts from reconstruction and training to engaging enemy . In: Stars and Stripes . ( stripes.com [accessed September 15, 2018]).
  4. ↑ The lonely fighter. How soldiers in Afghanistan differentiate between Drinnies and Draussies . In: Loyal - Magazine for Security Policy, 2013
  5. ^ Wagner, Gerald (2016): Great excitement. The war as a stroke of luck for the soldier: A new culture of heroism is emerging in Germany, In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 7, 2016, p. 13.
  6. ↑ NDR: Young officers criticize Inner Leadership. In: www.ndr.de. Retrieved January 6, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Gerald Wagner: Bundeswehr University: Nobody knows what makes the soldier tick . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . February 26, 2015, ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed January 6, 2017]).
  8. ↑ Bohnert, Marcel: Army in two worlds . In: Martin Böcker, Larsen Kempf, Felix Springer (eds.): Soldatentum. In search of the identity and vocation of the Bundeswehr today . Olzog, Munich 2013, p. 75–89, here p. 84 .
  9. ↑ Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi): Billions instead of millions for civil conflict resolution: answer to Marcel Bohnert . In: PeaceLab2016 . ( peacelab2016.de [accessed on April 13, 2017]).
  10. ↑ About Korpsgeist and Combat Troops http://plus.faz.net/politik/2017-04-29/7y7mhurgvn4pk1woygeyejv/?gepc=s3
  11. ↑ Marco Seliger: A Touch of Rebellion, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 5, 2017 http://m.faz.net/aktuell/politik/inland/krise-in-der-bundeswehr-ein-hauch-von-rebellion-15000545 .html
  12. ↑ Briefly introduced ... The invisible veterans . Koblenz January 2, 2018 ( sanitaetsdienst-bundeswehr.de [accessed on May 8, 2018]).
  13. ↑ Major Marcel Bohnert on the image of the Bundeswehr - "We are the stepchild of the nation" . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed September 15, 2018]).
  14. ↑ Bundeswehr revolts against re: publica: guerrilla action at network conference . In: stern.de . May 2, 2018 ( stern.de [accessed May 4, 2018]).
  15. ^ Secret training at the KSK: BILD in the jungle camp of the Bundeswehr . In: bild.de . ( bild.de [accessed on November 10, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Bohnert, Marcel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer (major) and author
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin