Michael Bartscher

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Brigadier General Michael Bartscher (2018)

Michael Bartscher (* 1957 or 1958 ) is a German officer , Brigadier General of the Air Force and a graduate in business administration .

After studying business administration at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, he went through various specialist and management positions in logistics. From 1992 to 1994 he completed the general staff training course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

Until 2012 he served with the rank of colonel as commander of the logistics regiment 46, which was put into service in 2003, in the Freiherr vom Stein barracks in Diez . In June 2012 Bartscher visited the soldiers of his regiment as part of a commander's trip. The soldiers were stationed in Mazar-e Sharif in Afghanistan during the 28th DEU ISAF contingent from March to July 2012 . In October 2012 the logistics regiment 46 was affiliated with the logistics regiment 47 in Dornstadt near Ulm. Bartscher was appointed head of the planning and organization as well as controlling department in the Federal Ministry of Defense in the Planning II department. Also as a lecturer at the Bundeswehr leadership academy for profitability and controlling. He then took over operational command of the Bundeswehr (EinsFüKdoBw) in Geltow responsible for the logistics at the Bundeswehr operations abroad . In Masar-e Sharif in Afghanistan at Camp Marmal , he was responsible for logistics in Regional Command North (RC North) within the framework of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Bartscher was as a military adviser to the ISAF in the Afghan army in the Military School Kabul on August 5, 2014 in an attack the Afghan soldiers Rafiqullah, with an automatic rifle of the type M16 , badly wounded fired into a group of visitors.

After his health rehabilitation, he was Head of Department 4 at the Luftwaffe Command from July 1, 2015 to October 1, 2017 . After that he was used in a special assignment with the Deputy Inspector of the Air Force in Cologne. In October 2018 he took part in the cycling race at the Invictus Games in Sydney .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell to General Harold J. Greene in Arlington -... In: bundeswehr-journal. August 17, 2014, accessed January 14, 2019 .
  2. ^ Robert Kiendl: After the attack in Kabul: the attacker was an Afghan soldier. In: mdr.de. August 6, 2014, archived from the original on October 25, 2014 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Sounak Mukhopadhyay: What We Know about Rafiqullah - Afghan Gunman Who Killed US General. In: International Business Times. August 7, 2014, archived from the original on December 11, 2014 ; accessed on January 11, 2016 .
  4. ↑ US general killed. (PDF) In: Current. Bundeswehr, August 11, 2014, accessed on January 11, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bartscher, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century