Michael Hochwart

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Michael Hochwart as Brigadier General (2017)

Michael Hochwart (born June 26, 1959 in Pforzheim ) is a major general in the Army of the German Armed Forces and since January 9, 2018 department head of operations in the Army Command .

Military career

Training and first uses

In 1979, after graduating from high school, Hochwart joined the armed forces as a basic military service provider . After completing his training as a replenishment officer in 1981, Hochwart studied economics and organizational sciences at the Bundeswehr University in Munich and graduated in 1985 with a degree in business administration. This was followed by assignments as platoon leader in the supply battalion Sonderwaffen 320 in Herborn-Seelbach, as a transshipment squadron leader in the supply company 160 in Wentorf and finally as chief of the 2nd / 3rd medical battalion in Hamburg-Harburg.

General staff training and service as a staff officer

In 1993 he was transferred to the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg to complete the 36th Army General Staff course. He was then deployed in 1995 as a logistics officer (G4) in the Gebirgsjägerbrigade 23 in Bad Reichenhall . In 1997 he attended the US Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas , USA . After his return in 1998 he became the commander of the 7th Supply Battalion in Unna . During his time as battalion commander, Hochwart completed an assignment abroad in early 2001 as chief of the staff of the logistics regiment of the German Army Contingent KFOR in Tetovo and Prizren .

After this foreign assignment, he was employed as a lecturer in troop leadership and a tutor at the leadership academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In 2002 he was employed for the first time in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn as a consultant in the command staff of the Army (FüH II 3). In 2004, Hochwart was transferred to the staff of the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen , where he served as a G4 staff officer. In 2005 he became Chief of Staff of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division in Leipzig . During this assignment, he completed a foreign assignment in 2007 as Commander Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Feyzabad as part of the German Armed Forces ISAF mission in Afghanistan . In 2008 Hochwart returned to the USA , first as a course participant and from 2009 as a lecturer at the School for Advanced Military Studies in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas .

In 2010 he returned to Hardthöhe in Bonn , this time as head of division in the command staff of the army (FüH II 3, from 2012 in H II 3). In 2012, Hochwart moved to the Army Command in Koblenz as the logistics sub-department manager .

General uses

On January 21, 2013, Hochwart, still with the rank of colonel , was appointed commander of the technical school for land systems and technical college of the army for technology and general of the army logistics troops in Aachen. In this position he was appointed Brigadier General by the Federal Minister of Defense on June 25, 2013 . In June 2015 he handed this command over to Brigadier General Ralf Lungershausen . On June 1, 2015, Hochwart became Head of Logistics and Support in the Army Command as the successor to Brigadier General Walter Ludwig . Since January 9, 2018, Hochwart has been the successor to Major General Carsten Breuer, Head of Operations in the Army Command and was promoted to Major General on April 25, 2018. His successor on the post of Head of Logistics and Support was Colonel Dirk Kipper .

Others

Hochwart is married and has five children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - February 2018. In: www.personal.bundeswehr.de. February 15, 2018, accessed February 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b New commander: Michael Hochwart heads the Army School , Aachener Zeitung from January 14, 2013, accessed on June 27, 2013
  3. ↑ Information from the TSL / FSHT press officer from June 27, 2013
  4. ^ "Aachen has a general again" , German Army of July 3, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2013
  5. ↑ Nina Krüsmann: Hochwart: “I'm going to sign out. Goodbye there ” . In: Aachener Nachrichten . ( aachener-nachrichten.de [accessed October 29, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME Hochwart, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Pforzheim