Ralf Hoffmann

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Brigadier General Ralf Hoffmann (2019).

Ralf Hoffmann (* 27. July 1963 in Osnabrück ) is a Brigadier General of the Air Force of the Armed Forces and since 18 October 2018, the commander of operations center IT system of the Bundeswehr in Rheinbach .

Military career

Training and first uses

Hoffmann joined the Bundeswehr in 1982 with the 8th / Air Force Training Regiment 3 in Roth near Nuremberg and graduated from the 5th / Officer School of the Air Force in Fürstenfeldbruck , the 1st / Telecommunications Regiment 11 in Münster and the 1st / Technical School of the Air Force until 1985 2 completed his training as an officer in the air force troop service and as a telecommunications officer in Lagerlechfeld . From 1985 to 1990 he was deployed as a telecommunications officer in platoon driver assignments (mobile or fixed long-distance train) with the 4th / Fernmelderegiment 1 in Krummenort near Rendsburg . From 1990 to 1993 he was employed as a telecommunications officer and company commander of the 10th / Air Force Training Regiment 3 in Roth. Hoffmann was then employed as a department head and S3 officer at the area telecommunications guide 626 in Nuremberg.

Service as a staff officer

From 1994 to 1996 Hoffmann was employed as a department head and S3 staff officer in the telecommunications system section of the Bundeswehr 601 in Roth, and from 1996 to 1998 he completed the national general staff / admiralty staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . Then he was following from 1998 to 2000 as head A6 ( Command Support and Military Air Traffic Control ) at Air Force Command North in Kalkar used in the Lower Rhine and took 1999 as a workspace manager A6 in the command post combat wing Air Force 1 in Vicenza , Italy on NATO -Use "Stabilization Force" ( SFOR ) part. From 2000 to 2002 he was employed as a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS) VI 2 / IV 2 (conception of the Bundeswehr - leadership ability and networked operations management as well as intelligence gathering and reconnaissance) at the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn . From 2002 to 2005 Hoffmann was Commander II / Technical School of the Air Force 1 (Air Force command services / IT training for the German Armed Forces) in Lagerlechfeld near Augsburg, again in management responsibility. From 2005 to 2007 he was an S3 staff officer (NATO Policy Development / Military Policy) at the NATO headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation (SACT) in Norfolk ( Virginia , USA ). This was followed by three assignments in the Federal Office for Information Management and Information Technology of the Bundeswehr in Koblenz : 2008 to 2009 as division manager A4 (international cooperation information technology) , 2009 to 2011 as project manager IT project HERKULES and deputy department manager F and department manager H - basic IT operations -System Bundeswehr. Hoffmann was then used until 2012 as division head of IT systems for the Bundeswehr in the command support department / G 6 of the armed forces support command in Rheinbach. From 2013 to 2014 he was employed as chief of staff and deputy commander in the IT system operations center of the Bundeswehr, as well as an international assignment as Deputy Director Civil-Military Interaction Enterprise Advisory Group and senior German officer at the German unit in the Headquarters International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Kabul , Afghanistan . From 2014 to 2016, Hoffmann was Head of the Armed Forces Command (FüSK) III 2 / FüSK II 3 / CIT II 1 (principle of command support and control of the information and communication technology system of the Bundeswehr) at the BMVg in Bonn.

Service as a general

From 2016 to 2017, Hoffmann was the successor to Brigadier General Michael Färber , deputy commander in the command support command of the German Armed Forces or, after reclassification, commander of IT troops in the information technology command of the German armed forces in Bonn. From 2017 to 2018 Hoffmann was subordinate to the Bundeswehr Operations Command and was deployed as Director NATO Advisory and Liaison Team (NALT) within the mandate of the Kosovo Force ( KFOR ) in Pristina , Kosovo , where he replaced Brigadier General Dietmar Mosmann , who in turn was in his post in Bonn took over. Since October 18, 2018, Hoffmann has been in use as Commander of the Operations Center IT System of the Bundeswehr (BITS) and at the same time site elder Rheinbach.

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This is where the heart of the Bundeswehr's IT system beats. In: https://cir.bundeswehr.de/ . PIZ CIR Bw, November 29, 2018, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Interview with Colonel Hoffmann - BWI and Bundeswehr have achieved a lot. In: https://www.bwi.de . BWI, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  3. ↑ KFOR Magazine (page 15). In: https://jfcnaples.nato.int/ . PAO JFC Naples, September 15, 2018, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  4. ↑ IT troops under new leadership. In: https://cir.bundeswehr.de . PIZ CIR Bw, December 1, 2017, accessed April 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Ralf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH Osnabrück