Richard Rossmanith

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Lieutenant General Richard Roßmanith, Commander Command Operational Leadership, Intervention Forces in Ulm

Richard Johann Roßmanith (born March 16, 1955 in Monheim , Donauwörth district ) is a lieutenant general in the army of the Bundeswehr retired. D. and was in his last post from December 18, 2012 to January 31, 2018 commander of the operational command of the intervention forces and from July 1, 2013 commander of the successor command of the multinational command operational command in Ulm .

Military career

Training and first uses

Roßmanith joined the German Armed Forces in Jägerbataillon 561 in Munich in July 1973 . From 1974 to 1977 he completed a degree in electrical engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich . Then he was deployed as platoon leader with the 112th Jäger Battalion until 1981 and as a company commander with the 112th Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Regen until 1985 .

Service as a staff officer

From 1985 to 1987 Roßmanith was trained as an officer in the general staff service in the 28th general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . He then became head of department at the German military representative at the NATO military committee in Brussels . This was followed by employment as a G3 staff officer with Panzerbrigade 6 in Hofgeismar . From 1990 to 1991 he was chief of staff of the 4th motorized rifle division of the former National People's Army in Erfurt . Until 1993, Roßmanith Branch Chief at the NATO headquarters BALTAP in Karup , Denmark , and then advisor to the headquarters of the armed forces in Bonn . In 1995 he became commander of the 212 Panzer Grenadier Battalion in Augustdorf . In 1997, he was employed as a G3 in the merged military area command III / 7th Panzer Division in Düsseldorf and from 1999 as head of the further development work group in the army command at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn. From 2000 to 2003 he was a division manager in the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense .

Service in the rank of general

The next deployment of the troops he took over command of the Panzer Lehrbrigade 9 in Munster and was then again on the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense, this time as its deputy head. From 2006 to 2009, Roßmanith was Chairman of the Deployable Forces Coordination Group at SHAPE in Mons , Belgium , before becoming Chief of Staff of the Deployable Joint Staff Element 1 (DJSE 1) in the Allied Force Command Heidelberg , FC Heidelberg (Land) in November 2009 Heidelberg became. On October 11, 2010, he also assumed responsibility for the Stability Division at ISAF headquarters in Kabul ( Afghanistan ) in support of the Afghan government.

On December 18, 2012, he was appointed commander of the operational command of the intervention forces, with a simultaneous promotion to lieutenant general. On January 31, 2018, he handed over the command to Lieutenant General Jürgen Knappe, and retired after almost 45 years of service.

Calls

  • 1997: G3 staff officer in the German SFOR contingent in the Rajlovac field camp , Bosnia-Herzegovina .
  • 2003: Commander of the Multinational Brigade South-West and the 10th German contingent of the KFOR in Kosovo .
  • From September 2010 to January 2012 Deputy Chief of Staff for Stability at the ISAF headquarters in Kabul .

Orders and decorations

His orders and decorations include u. a .: the Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in Gold, the use of medal NATO , the use of Medal of Bundeswehr SFOR, the use of Medal of Bundeswehr KFOR, the use of medal Bundeswehr ISAF, the Meritorious Service Medal of the United States as well as use of medals from France and Italy .

Memberships

Roßmanith is Vice President and Chairman of the Lippe Section of the Society for Security Policy .

Private

Roßmanith is married and has two daughters.

literature

  • Handbook of the German Armed Forces and Defense Industry = Who is Who - German Armed Forces Handbook and Defense Industry Directory. Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler: Bernard & Graefe in the Mönch publishing company. 2009/2010. Also as a CD-ROM.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.nato.int/fchd/fchdold/news/2010/n101011a.html
  2. ↑ Willi Böhmer: Commander Bentler leaves Ulm. swp.de, December 19, 2012, accessed December 19, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Mission accomplished with flying colors. February 1, 2018, accessed February 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Heidelberg NATO soldiers back from Afghanistan. Lokalmatador.de, January 27, 2012, accessed on July 12, 2012 .
  5. ↑ lip: GSPsipo. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Federal Board: GSPsipo. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Rossmanith, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rossmanith, Richard Johann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German general
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Monheim (Swabia)