Peter Bohrer

Peter Paul Jacob drills (* 31 October 1956 in Niederhorbach ) is a Lieutenant General of the Air Force of the Armed Forces out of service . His last role was from October 1, 2015 to October 1, 2019, as Deputy Inspector of the Armed Forces Base .

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from high school in 1976, Bohrer joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate . From 1977 to 1980 he studied economics and organizational sciences, which he graduated with a degree in business administration. Subsequently, Lieutenant Bohrer was deployed from 1981 to 1988, first as a transport officer and then as captain and squadron chief at Jagdgeschwader 74 in Neuburg .

Service as a staff officer

From 1988 to 1990 Bohrer completed the national general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and was subsequently promoted to major . After training as a staff officer , he served from 1990 to 1992 as the head of the fundamental logistics department at Military Command III in Düsseldorf . From 1992 to 1995 Bohrer was used abroad; he served as deputy defense attaché at the German embassy in Moscow .

Back in Germany he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where Lieutenant Colonel Bohrer served as a consultant for fundamental questions of materials management in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS IV 1) from 1996 to 1998 . From 1998 to 1999 he was deployed in Neubrandenburg as deputy commander of the 5th Air Force Supply Regiment.

From 1999 Bohrer served again in the Federal Ministry, this time in Berlin, where he served as a consultant in the planning staff under the direction of Harald Kujat until 2000 . Kujat, who was appointed Inspector General of the Bundeswehr in July 2000 , took the drill promoted to Colonel with him as an adjutant . After Kujat was replaced by Wolfgang Schneiderhan in 2002 , Bohrer moved to the Armed Forces Support Command in Cologne-Wahn as a group leader for the further development of logistics , where he served until 2004 under the command of Ulf von Krause .

In 2004 Bohrer returned to the ministry in Bonn and served for one year as office manager and adjutant to the permanent state secretary Klaus-Günther Biederbick . After his transfer to temporary retirement in 2005, Bohrer remained in office and served in the same function until 2007, Biederbick's successor at the State Secretary's post, Peter Wichert .

Service in the rank of general

On July 1, 2007, Bohrer took over from Wolfgang Mössinger , with the appointment of Brigadier General , in the management staff of the armed forces, the post of Head of Staff Department IV Logistics. He handed over this post to Winfried Zimmer . Following the transfer of Manfred Nielson drills took over on July 1, 2010, when his successor, the post of Chief of Staff of the guide staff of the armed forces and changed the course of the reorientation of the Bundeswehr on 1 October 2012 in use as Chief of Staff in Command Force Base . He held this post until September 30, 2015. Since then he has been Deputy Inspector of the Armed Forces Base; since December 1, 2015 in the rank of lieutenant general. On October 1, 2019, he handed over this post to Lieutenant General Jürgen Weigt , and retired after 43 years of service.

Further memberships

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

Private

Bohrer is married and has two daughters.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - October 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff in the BmVg, October 8, 2019, accessed on October 9, 2019 .