Max Asam

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Max Asam (born March 5, 1936 in Eisenstein , Bavaria ; † November 6, 2015 in Kirrweiler / Pfalz ) was a brigadier general in the Bundeswehr. He was teaching group commander in Munster and stage manager of the infantry at the Army Office in Cologne, before he was a member of the generals as commander of Panzergrenadierbrigade 5 in Homberg (Efze) from 1994 .

career

Max Asam joined the armored infantry troops of the German armed forces in Marburg in 1959 and, after training as an officer, served as platoon commander and company commander in Fritzlar and Marburg. After stationing as deputy battalion commander in Mellrichstadt and as a battalion commander in Walldürn he took over in 1977, the Panzer Grenadier Demonstration Battalion 92 in Munster and then the command of the Training Division B at the local combat troops School 2. Asam was then deputy commander of the tank brigade 6 in Hofgeismar and later as a colonel in appointed the Heeresamt  (HA) in Cologne, which is decisive for conceptual development , where he was stage manager of the infantry until 1990 . In the subsequent position as commander of the Panzergrenadierbrigade 5  Kurhessen in Homberg (Efze), he was appointed Brigadier General in 1994. Asam retired in 1995.

Personal

Asam had been married since 1961 and had three sons. He died on November 6, 2015 at the age of 79 in Kirrweiler on the southern wine route .

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Individual evidence

  1. Max Asam obituary. In: trauer.rheinpfalz.de . Bad Dürkheimer Zeitung , November 9, 2015, accessed on November 20, 2015.