Rainer Glatz

Rainer Glatz as Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command in Geltow (2009)

Rainer Lutz Glatz (born January 10, 1951 in Quakenbrück ) is a retired Lieutenant General . D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . In his last employment he was from April 22, 2009 to April 23, 2013 commander of the command and control command of the Bundeswehr in Geltow near Potsdam .

Military career

Training and first uses

On July 1, 1969, Glatz joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate for the Jäger- und Panzergrenadier troops. After completing his officer training at the Army Officer School II in Hamburg and the Combat Troop School II in Munster, he was employed in various posts from 1972 to 1978 , first as a platoon leader , then as an S2 officer (military security and communications) and finally as a company commander . Subsequently he served from 1978 to 1981 as a youth officer of the I. Corps in Münster .

General staff training and service as a staff officer

From 1981 to 1983 Glatz completed the 24th general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . After this course, he was on the Bonner Hardthöhe the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces offset (FüS II 4), where he worked until 1985 as a speaker in the "military intelligence of the Armed Forces". As a participant in the 20th Army Staff Course followed in 1985 another one-year general staff training at the British Royal Military College of Science in Camberley . Glatz then returned to Bonn in 1986, this time to the Federal Chancellery as a personal assistant to Department Head 2 (foreign, security and development policy).

In 1989 Glatz became the commander of the 12th Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Osterode am Harz , before he was transferred back to Bonn in 1991 to the Army Command Staff (FüH) in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg). First, he was to 1992, press officer and speechwriter (FüH I 3) of the Inspector of the Army , Joerg Schoenbohm . After changing Schönbohm in the civilian leadership of the Ministry as Secretary Glatz in 1992 adjutant of the successor, Helge Hansen , and served in this use until 1994. Hansen, of the 1994 General was appointed and until 1996 the post of NATO - Commander Central Europe held, took Glatz as chief of his personal staff and G3 staff officer of the command group with him to the headquarters in Brunssum in the Netherlands . Back in Germany, Glatz took over the post of Chief of Staff of the Defense Area Command V. / 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen from 1996 to 1998 under the command of Rüdiger Drews .

General uses

Rainer Glatz (right) (2011)

In 1998 Rainer Glatz received another troop command and led the Jägerbrigade 37 "Free State of Saxony" in Frankenberg . During this assignment, Glatz was appointed Brigadier General and was in command of the Multinational Brigade Center (DFGFA) in Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina from November 1998 to April 1999 , when his association provided forces for the 2nd SFOR contingent in Bosnia . Subsequently, in 2001, his path took him back to the command staff of the Army, where he was deployed as Head of Staff Department III (leadership, conception, operational principles) under the command of Manfred Dietrich .

On September 1, 2002, he took over the Special Operations Division in Regensburg from Hans-Otto Budde and headed it, with the appointment of Major General, until March 9, 2006, when he handed over command to Hans-Lothar Domröse . This was followed by a transfer to the Bundeswehr command and control command in Geltow near Potsdam , where Glatz became deputy commander. From April 24, 2006 to February 4, 2007 he led the operational command, as the commander Karlheinz Viereck was in command of the EUFOR RD Congo operation . On April 22nd, 2009 Glatz took over the post of commander of Karlheinz Viereck and was appointed lieutenant general. On April 23, 2013, Glatz handed over the command to his successor Hans-Werner Fritz and was retired as part of a big tattoo .

Even after retiring from active service, he is still a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Defense for the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr .

Private

Glatz is married and has two sons. From July 10, 2009 to July 15, 2016, Glatz was chairman of the Bundes Deutsche Infanterie e. V. (BDInf).

Works

• Rainer Glatz: At the Hindu Kush - and beyond? The Bundeswehr on foreign deployments: experiences, balance sheets, prospects. Ed .: Rolf Tophoven . 1st edition. Federal Agency for Civic Education , Bonn 2015, ISBN 978-3-8389-0584-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About us / Advisory Boards // Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr // ZMSBw. Accessed March 31, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Presentation of the speaker

predecessor	Office	successor
Karlheinz Viereck	Commander of the Bundeswehr Operations Command 2009–2013	Hans-Werner Fritz