Martin Hein (General)

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Martin Hein (born February 15, 1959 in Braunschweig ) is a Brigadier General of the Army of the Bundeswehr .

Military career

Training and first uses

Hein joined the German Armed Forces as a temporary soldier in 1978 and completed his training as an officer of the tank troops at the tank troop school in Munster by 1989 . From 1979 to 1983 he completed a degree in education at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . From 1983 to 1989 he was employed as platoon leader , S2 officer and company commander in tank battalion 23 in Braunschweig. From 1989 to 1991 Hein was employed as a lecture hall leader at the armored forces school, before he was a participant in the 34th general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg from 1991 to 1993 .

Service as a staff officer

After completing his general staff training, Hein led his first assignment as a general staff officer from 1994 to 1996 in the command area 4 ( logistics ) in the staff of the IV Corps in Potsdam . In 1996, Hein was a course participant at the 30th Advanced Command and Staff Course (ACSC) in Camberley ( United Kingdom ) before he became department head G 3 ( operations management ) of the 19 Panzer Grenadier Brigade in Ahlen from 1997 to 1998 . From 1998 to 2000 he was employed as a ministerial officer for FüS III ( military policy and arms control ) in the command staff of the armed forces in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn and Berlin . From 2000 to 2002 Hein was commander of the 33rd Panzer Battalion in Luttmersen . From 2003 to 2004 he was employed again as a consultant, this time as a consultant for central tasks (Fü H / Z) in the command staff of the Army in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn. From 2004 to 2006 Hein was Head of Department G2 / G3 in the Armed Forces Office in Bonn, before he was employed as an Army Attaché at the German Embassy in London from 2007 to 2011 . This was followed in 2011 as head of the Concept Development & Experimentation department at the Center for Transformation of the Bundeswehr in Strausberg , before Hein was appointed head of the attaché department in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin in 2012. In 2013, Hein attended the Higher Command & Staff Course at the Joint Service Command & Staff College in Shrivenham (United Kingdom) before becoming Commander Enabling Command in the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps in Innsworth (United Kingdom) that same year . He was employed in this post until 2014

Service as a general

From 2015 to 2017 Hein was promoted to Brigadier General Defense Attaché at the German Embassy in London . He handed over this post to Brigadier General Ralf Raddatz . After brief interim assignments in the Deployment Department in the Armed Forces Command in Bonn and in the Training Command in Leipzig , Hein became commander of the Army Officers School in Dresden on August 21, 2018 . Here he succeeded Brigadier General Harald Gante . On August 28, 2020, he handed over the command of the officers' school to Brigadier General Olaf Rohde in order to prepare for his new post as head of the German liaison command in the Central Command of the US Armed Forces in Tampa / Florida (USA), which he is to take over in the fall.

Assignments abroad

  • 2002 KFOR Head of General Staff Division 3 (G3) of the Multinational Brigade South, Prizren , Kosovo

Awards

Private

Hein is married and has two children.

Web links

Military vita

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Transall with high diplomats land at the Allgäu Airport in Memmingerberg. In: http://www.engelvonfellheim.de . Retrieved September 28, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Transfer of command at the largest German agency in Great Britain. In: http://www.kommando.streitkraeftebasis.de . PIZ Armed Forces Base, May 4, 2017, accessed September 28, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - September 2017. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Department P in the BmVg, September 3, 2017, accessed on September 28, 2018 .
  4. ↑ The Army Officer School has a new commander. In: http://www.deutschesheer.de . PIZ Heer, August 24, 2018, accessed on September 28, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Press release of the Army Officer School of August 28, 2020 , accessed on August 29, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Hein, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, Brigadier General of the Army of the Bundeswehr, Commander of the Army Officers School
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig