Michael Gschossmann

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Michael Gschoßmann is a German Brigadier General and General Manager NATO Airborne Early Warning and Control Program Management Agency (NAPMA) in Brunssum ( Netherlands ).

Brigadier General Michael Gschossmann

Life

Michael Gschoßmann joined the Air Force as an officer candidate in 1979 and completed the officer training course before studying economics at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Neubiberg near Munich from 1980 to 1984 . From 1984 to 1985 he was trained as an anti-aircraft missile officer at Fort Bliss , Texas at the Air Force Missile School. His first employment after training led him to 1989 as a fire control and later as an operations officer for the anti-aircraft missile battalion 39 in Eckernförde .

From 1989 to 1992 Gschoßmann worked as an adjutant to the commanding general of the air fleet in Cologne , before participating in the 37th general staff course of the air force at the command academy of the German armed forces in Hamburg from 1992 to 1994 . He then also completed the 87th Advanced Staff Officers' Course at the Royal Air Force Staff College in Bracknell . From 1996 to 1998 he was a consultant at the Federal Ministry of Defense and later a staff officer at the head of the staff department in the command staff of the armed forces in the field of military policy and leadership.

After working at the Regional Headquarters North in Brunssum as a speaker and most recently as Head of Air Operations , from 2001 to 2004 he led the anti-aircraft missile group 25 , equipped with the Patriot anti-aircraft missile system , in Barnstorf . From 2004 to 2007 he was course director of the national general staff / admiralty staff course at the leadership academy and then until 2009 office manager and chief of staff of the Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum .

Gschoßmann took over the position of head of division for military aspects of security policy in the Federal Chancellery until 2013 and from March 2013, following the retirement of Erich Vad, the tasks of group leader for security and military policy in the Federal Security Council . From 2013 to mid-2015 he headed the ground department in the Luftwaffe commando operations units and from July 1, 2015 to the end of 2018 he was commander of the ground units in the air force command ( Cologne ). From 2015 to 2018 he also held the position of senior officer for the Bundeswehr base in Cologne. In January 2019, Gschoßmann became General Manager of NAPMA. Brigadier General Michael Hogrebe took over his previous post in Cologne in March 2019 .

Michael Gschoßmann visit to Israel, March 2017
  • Michael Gschossmann visit to Israel, March 2017. I.jpg
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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - January 2019. In: http://www.personal.bundeswehr.de/ . January 4, 2019, accessed January 13, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Commander of ground-based units. In: luftwaffe.de. Bundeswehr, accessed on September 17, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Curator Brigadier General Michael Gschoßmann. In: https://www.stadt-koeln.de/ . Retrieved January 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Gschossmann, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brigadier general and commander of ground-based units in the air force command
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century