Michael Oberneyer

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Michael Gerhard Oberneyer (* 1962 in Mölln ) is a Brigadier General of the German Armed Forces and Defense Attaché on the Military Attaché Staff of the German Embassy in London .

Life

Training and first uses

Oberneyer joined the German Armed Forces on July 1, 1983 in Albersdorf as a temporary soldier and was trained as an officer candidate for the NBC defense force . From 1984 to 1987 he studied pedagogy at the Helmut Schmidt University - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg . From 1996 to 1998 Oberneyer was trained as an officer in the general staff service at the command and control academy of the Bundeswehr , also in Hamburg .

Service as a staff officer

From October 1998 to March 2000 Oberneyer was employed as a staff officer for military intelligence (G 2) in the IV Corps in Schwielowsee near Potsdam . This was followed by an activity as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Berlin in the field of military policy and bilateral relations until September 2002. As a result, Oberneyer took over the command of the NBC Defense Battalion 7 in Höxter on September 18, 2004 as battalion commander from Lieutenant Colonel Andreas Bednarzyk . He led the deployment of a contingent of his battalion in Kuwait as part of Operation Enduring Freedom . There it formed the NBC defense battalion Kuwait . On September 10, 2004, he handed over the Höxteraner battalion Lieutenant Colonel Bill Roelof man and was adjutant of the inspector of the army . As a result, from August 2006 Oberneyer was head of the liaison command at the US Army Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . In January 2010 , Oberneyer was employed as head of the military-political aspects of operations unit in the BMVg in Berlin, before Oberneyer attended the Royal College of Defense Studies in London from September 2012 to July 2013 .

Service as a general

From August 2013 to January 2017, Oberneyer was Brigadier General Deputy German Military Representative and Chief of Staff at NATO and the European Union in Brussels , before handing this post over to Brigadier General Wolfgang Vienna . As of January 2017, Oberneyer himself succeeded Brigadier General Reinhard Kuhn , who was retiring, as the German military representative at NATO's Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) in Mons ( Belgium ). Brigadier General Udo Schnittker succeeded him in this post on June 1, 2019 .

On June 28, 2019 Oberneyer took over the official business of the Director NATO Advisory and Liaison Team (NALT) at KFOR from Brigadier General Uwe Alexander Becker . In this post, Oberneyer was replaced by Frank Best . On September 1, 2020, Oberneyer succeeded Brigadier General Ralf Raddatz as Defense Attaché in the military attaché staff of the German Embassy in London .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael Oberneyer: Career in Flecktarn: How Commander Michael Oberneyer rose in the armed forces. In: New Westphalian . Stayed here January 5, 2004, accessed May 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Michael Oberneyer: New commander for the Weber barracks: Roelof Billmann replaces Michael Oberneyer. In: New Westphalian . Stayed here, August 10, 2004, accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Michael Ober Neyer: Personal profile. In: LinkedIn . Retrieved May 1, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Personnel changes in the Bundeswehr and in industry . In: Hardthöhenkurier . No. 1 , 2017, p. 76 .
  5. ↑ Michael Oberneyer: Current situation in the areas of operation of the Bundeswehr (briefing of the public 27/19). (PDF) In: BMVg. Eyes straight ahead! , accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - April 2020 (supplement). In: Bundeswehr. April 28, 2020, accessed May 1, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Oberneyer, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Oberneyer, Michael Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, Brigadier General of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Mölln