Officer in the General Staff Service

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Officer in the General Staff Service ( i. G. ) means in Germany an officer of the Bundeswehr who is used in a post for staff officers that is designated as a General Staff post . The majority of the officers in the General Staff Service have completed general staff training.

Selection for the General Staff Service / Admiral Staff Service National

The selection for general staff training is based on the principles of suitability , qualifications and professional performance by a selection conference of the Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr . There, for example, the results of the “Basic Staff Officer course” (BLS) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and official assessments are used. The appropriate officers attend the General Staff Service / Admiral Staff Service National (LGAN) course. The selection or non-selection has an impact on the further career of the officers with regard to assignments and career prospects, also with regard to the possibility of attaining a general rank. Officers in a career of the military music service will not be considered when choosing to participate in a General Staff Officer Course.

education

The training for officers in the general staff service takes place at the command academy of the Bundeswehr either in a national or international course.

General Staff Service / Admiral Staff Service National

The course General Staff / Admiral Staff Officer National (LGAN) begins each autumn, lasts two years and is annually around 100 national and international military participants from NATO countries together with officials in a career of the category of higher service open. It is considered to be the most demanding course at the leadership academy. Its graduates are open to the highest military positions. The training enables you to penetrate problems from different perspectives and with scientific methods and to develop solutions. The military leaders plan on a strategic, operational and tactical level and issue appropriate analyzes and recommendations on security issues.

The course is divided into three parts. In the first social science phase, the officers analyze the behavior and interactions of social systems, institutions and actors in lecture halls shared by the armed forces. Lead internships in other authorities , other government departments or companies in the private sector , participants learn alternative methods of decision-making and leadership know. This is followed by a sub-armed forces-specific phase in which current and future challenges for the armed forces are examined. In addition, tactical and operational management and operational principles of the army , air force and navy are deepened in plan and staff exercises. During the course, the participants write a course paper.

General Staff / Admiral Staff International Course

The ten-month German-language course is open to German and international participants. Around a quarter of the course participants are German. The international course participants from non-NATO countries are supported by German staff officers as mentors . In addition to their military training, the participants get an insight into the political and economic structures and the cultural peculiarities of German society. The most important goal of the course is to develop an international network at the highest military management level. The Federal Ministry of Defense decides together with the Foreign Office which countries can send officers to Germany.

Since 1962, international non-NATO army officers have been trained in the LGAI. In 1986 the training for international members of the Air Force and Navy was opened. Since 1995 there have always been two army lecture halls, one air force and one naval lecture hall. The course is preceded by an eleven-month language training at the Federal Language Office in Hürth for international participants due to the German language of the course . By 2019, around 3,000 soldiers from 120 nations had taken part in the LGAI.

use

Officers in the General Staff Service are generally assigned to prominent posts that are specifically intended for officers of the General Staff Service and are marked accordingly in the organizational basis of the departments ("General Staff Service Post"). As a rule, the assignments as battalion commander and troop leader (brigade level up) are reserved for them. Many posts for department heads on a staff are coded as general staff posts . In the army they are abbreviated with a "G" instead of an "S", e.g. B. Department G 3 of a brigade . Positions for officers of the General Staff Service can also be found in the Federal Ministry of Defense , in offices, at academies, schools and in military attaché staffs.

Labelling

Collar Tabs

Officers on a general staff posts, as an addition to their rank , the term "the General Staff" or the abbreviation "i. G. “, for example Major i. G. Your shoulder flaps are underlaid on the uniforms of the Army and Air Force uniforms , except for the ski blouse (Army) and medical officers, " crimson red " ( RAL  3027, raspberry red , RGB 181, 18, 51). They wear a crimson collar tab (matt silver butt embroidery, hand-embroidered on crimson ground cloth. The "V" -shaped embroidery points down with the angle tips.). Army soldiers wear field jackets and blouses (camouflage print), combat jackets, pullovers, blousons and year-round jackets on the sleeve insert seams made of 0.4 cm wide flat braid in crimson red.

Service posts as military leaders ( commander , commanding general , commander , etc.), even if they are mostly occupied by officers with general staff training, are not marked as general staff posts, so there is no corresponding marking.

A reservist may only use the addition “in general staff service (i. G.)” during reserve service if he is used in a corresponding general staff post to which he is also assigned.

literature

  • Hansgeorg Model : The German General Staff Officer. His selection and training in the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht and Bundeswehr . Frankfurt am Main 1968.
  • Christian EO Millotat: The Prussian-German General Staff System - Roots, Development, Continuation . vdf, Zurich 2000, ISBN 978-3-7281-2749-5 .
  • Dictionary of German military history . 1st edition. Berlin 1985, p. 411–413 (license no. 5, P 189/84, order no .: 746 6350).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Basic staff officer course (BLS). In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . Bundeswehr Leadership Academy, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Denied participation in the General Staff / Admiral Staff Service course. In: https://www.rechtslupe.de/ . March 22, 2017, accessed October 2, 2019 .
  3. ^ Course General Staff / Admiralty Staff National (LGAN). In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . Bundeswehr Leadership Academy, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  4. ^ Course General Staff / Admiralty Staff International (LGAI). In: https://www.bundeswehr.de/ . Bundeswehr Leadership Academy, accessed on May 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ a b Central Regulation A1-2630 / 0-9804, Version 2.1 - Suit regulations for soldiers in the Bundeswehr. (PDF) In: BMVg. Inner Guidance Center , October 1, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2020 (1st amendment, No. 408, p. 96).
  6. ↑ Central regulation A1-2630 / 0-9804, Version 2.1 - Suit regulations for soldiers of the Bundeswehr. (PDF) In: BMVg. Inner Guidance Center , October 1, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2020 (1st amendment, 7.2 d), p. 245).
  7. ↑ Central regulation A1-2630 / 0-9804, Version 2.1 - Suit regulations for soldiers of the Bundeswehr. (PDF) In: BMVg. Inner Guidance Center , October 1, 2019, accessed on March 24, 2020 (1st amendment, No. 411, p. 97).
  8. ↑ Central Directive A2-1300 / 0-0-2, Version 3 - The reserve. In: Bundeswehr. Armed Forces Office , September 7, 2018, accessed March 24, 2020 (No. 3315).