Olaf von Roeder

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Olaf von Roeder (born November 15, 1960 ) is a brigadier general of the German Air Force and the commander of the Hesse State Command in Wiesbaden .

Military career

Training and first uses

Von Roeder joined the Bundeswehr in 1980 and completed basic training and officer training in the Air Force Training Regiment 3 in Roth and the Air Force officers' school in Fürstenfeldbruck by 1981 . It was followed from 1981 to 1985, a study of aerospace engineering at the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich . After completing his studies, von Roeder received basic and advanced aviation training to become a weapons system officer from 1985 to 1987 in Fürstenfeldbruck, as well as in Wichita Falls / Texas and Sacramento / California (both USA ). From 1987 to 1988 the further flight training on Alpha Jet took place at the Fighter Bomber Wing 49 in Fürstenfeldbruck, as well as the retraining on the Tornado weapon system at the Tri-National Tornado Training Establishment in Cottesmore ( Great Britain ). Various assignments followed at Fighter Bomber Wing 33 in Büchel : from 1988 to 1990 as weapons system officer Tornado IDS, in the 1st squadron, from 1990 to 1991 as weapons system officer Tornado IDS and S3 navigation operations officer, as well as head of the Nuclear Mission Planning Section on the staff of the flying group of 1991 to 1993 as an aircraft operational staff officer and from 1993 to 1995 as a squadron commander of the 1st squadron. From 1995 to 1997 von Roeder took part in the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

Service as a staff officer

After passing the general staff training, von Roeder was employed from 1997 to 2000 as planning general staff officer for concepts and concepts in the study group of the air force in the air force support command in Cologne - Wahn . This was followed by a transfer to Berlin-Gatow , where he was deployed from 2000 to 2001 in command of the 3rd Air Force Division as an operational general staff officer and department head A3. This was followed by a ministerial assignment from 2001 to 2003 as a consultant for aerospace and armaments issues as well as all air force matters in the office of State Secretaries Walther Stützle and Peter Eickenboom in the management area of ​​the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin. From 2003 to 2006 he was again in an aviation assignment as a commodore of Fighter Bomber Squadron 33. From 2006 to 2007, von Roeder completed a master's degree in national security strategy at the National Defense University in Washington DC (USA). He then worked for another year as a visiting researcher, visiting professor and consultant on issues of German and European security and defense policy at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at this university. After his return to Germany, von Roeder was employed from 2008 to 2010 at the Center for Transformation of the Bundeswehr in Strausberg, first as Division Manager Capability Analysis Bundeswehr and then as Division Manager I Transformation . This was followed by a transfer to Bonn , where he was employed from 2010 to 2012 as Head of Division Fü L II 3 (Basic Matters CPM 2001, BV IAGFA; F&T, International Armaments Cooperation (capability and needs analysis) in the Air Force Command ). From 2012 to 2014 he was employed as a ministerial head of Politics II 5 (arms control, non-proliferation; confidence building, OSCE, international arms policy) at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin.

Service as a general

From February to August 2014 von Roeder, under (temporary) appointment as brigadier general, was Camp Commander of Camp Marmal and Senior Airfield Authority of Mazar-e-Sharif airport as part of the ISAF - foreign deployment of the German armed forces in Afghanistan . He then took part, again as a colonel, in a two-month French language course at the Federal Language Office in Hürth . From 2015 to 2017 he was employed as a General Staff Officer for the Head of Air / Commander of the Air Force Flying Units in the Air Force Task Force Command or, after reclassification, to the Air Force Force Command in Cologne-Wahn. On March 24, 2017, von Roeder, succeeding Brigadier General Eckart Klink, was appointed commander of the Hesse State Command. On this post he received again the (permanent) promotion to Brigadier General.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiesbaden: Handover of command of the State Command Hesse. In: https://www.metropolnews.info/ . March 24, 2017, accessed March 2, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Roeder, Olaf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer in the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1960