Michael Vetter (General)

Michael Vetter (born December 3, 1962 in Weilburg ) is a Lieutenant General in the Air Force of the German Armed Forces and Head of Cyber ​​and Information Technology (CIT) in the Federal Ministry of Defense .

Military career

Training and first uses

Vetter came in 1982 in the German army and was to 1983 participants in the 49th officer training course for officers of the army service of the Air Force at the military academy of the Air Force in Fuerstenfeldbruck . From 1983 to 1986, he completed a study of the economics and organization at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich in Neubiberg, which he as a business graduate graduated. From 1987 to 1990 he was deployed for the first time as a supply officer in the replenishment squadron of Reconnaissance Wing 51 Immelmann in Bremgarten . From 1990 to 1992 Vetter was an adjutant to the commander of the Air Force Support Group North in Münster . He then returned to his old unit and was the squadron chief of the replenishment squadron in Reconnaissance Wing 51 Immelmann from 1992 to 1993 . Subsequently, from 1993 to 1994, he was employed as head of S 3 II (logistical cooperation in the development and procurement of defense material ) in the Air Force Materials Office in Cologne . From 1994 to 1996 Vetter was a course participant in the 39th national general staff course of the Air Force at the command and control academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

Use as a general staff officer

The first assignment as a general staff officer led Vetter from 1996 to 1998 as department head A4 to the air transport command in Münster. From 1998 to 2001 another staff assignment followed as Head of Division A 4 I a (planning, management of the Air Force Logistic System) in the Air Force Support Command in Cologne. This was followed by a first ministerial assignment from 2001 to 2003 as a consultant Fü L II 1 (basic logistics matters) in the command staff of the Air Force in Bonn . From 2003 to 2005 he was adjutant to the inspector of the Air Force Lieutenant General Gerhard W. Back . From 2005 to 2007 he was employed as commander of the Air Force Maintenance Regiment 2 in Diepholz . In 2008 Vetter was a trainee at the Royal College of Defense Studies in London. He completed this postgraduate education as a Master of Arts in International Security and Strategy, awarded by King's College London . In 2009 Vetter was Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff in the logistics center of the Bundeswehr in Wilhelmshaven . Subsequently, from 2010 to 2011 Head of Division Fü S IV 1 (fundamental matters of logistics in the Bundeswehr; logistic management of the Bundeswehr; international logistical cooperation) in the command staff of the armed forces in Bonn.

Use as a general

From 2011 to 2012 Vetter was head of the Fü S IV staff department in the armed forces command at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn. During this time he was also promoted to brigadier general. From March 2012 to March 2017, he was in command of the Bundeswehr logistics center. During this time he was on an assignment abroad in Afghanistan and, among other things, had to decide about the future of Afghan aid workers who had applied to come to Germany as asylum seekers after they had worked for the Bundeswehr . From April 2017 to April 2019 Vetter was Chief of Staff of the Cyber ​​and Information Room Command in Bonn . Associated with this was the promotion to major general . From April 2017 to March 2018 he was also the first deputy inspector for cyber and information space . He handed over this post to Major General Jürgen Setzer in March 2018 . At the beginning of April 2019, Vetter took over the vacant post of Head of Cyber ​​and Information Technology (CIT) in the Federal Ministry of Defense, which had been vacant since September 2018. This was the first time that the post was occupied by a soldier. Vetter has headed the BMVg Digital Council since May 16, 2019 .

Assignments abroad

• 05/13 - 12/13 ISAF Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics in Regional Command North Mazar-e-Sharif ( Afghanistan )

Awards

• Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in gold
• Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in silver
• NATO medal ISAF

Private

Vetter is married and has six children.

Further memberships

Member of the Presidium of the German Defense Society (DWT).

Web links

• Military vita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} The logistics center of the Bundeswehr - central logistics service provider for the Armed Forces Reserve Officer Association Oldenburg, from February 26, 2015
2. ^ Wilfried Lorenz: Visit to the logistics center of the Bundeswehr in Wilhelmshaven. In: CDU. April 14, 2017. Retrieved April 14, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Ulrike Scheffer: 150 Afghans are allowed to go to Germany. In: Tagesspiegel. October 28, 2013, accessed April 14, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Major General Vetter: "Cyber ​​attacks have long ceased to be fiction" . In: https://www.kreiszeitung.de . December 30, 2017 ( Kreiszeitung.de [accessed May 10, 2018]).
5. ↑ Georg Lang: Major General Jürgen Setzer takes on a new task Safe in cyberspace. In: Onetz. April 25, 2018, accessed April 6, 2019 . 
6. ↑ Timo Kather: IT information technology department head Mühleck said goodbye with Serenade. In: https://www.bmvg.de . BMVg press and information staff, September 28, 2018, accessed on April 8, 2019 . 
7. ↑ Digital Council BMVg has been constituted. Federal Ministry of Defense, May 16, 2019, accessed on May 17, 2019 .