Robert Bergmann (General)

Robert Bergmann (born July 30, 1949 in Braunschweig ) is a major general a. D. of the Army of the Bundeswehr and was most recently commander of the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

Military career

After graduating from high school in October 1969, Bergmann joined the German Army with the 25th Panzer Artillery Battalion in Braunschweig. After training as an officer , he served in the battalion in various uses as a squad leader, platoon leader and forward observer / battery officer and finally as an intelligence officer ( S2 ). In 1977 he was appointed battery chief and first took over the 4th and later the 5th battery of the Braunschweig battalion.

From 1981 to 1983 Bergmann completed the 24th general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg and then served as intelligence staff officer (G2) in the staff of the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen until 1985 . From 1985 to 1986 he was employed abroad in Spain , he completed the general staff training of the Spanish Army in Madrid . Back in Germany, he took over the post of planning officer (G4) at the headquarters of the Central Army Group of NATO in Heidelberg until 1989 .

After this staff deployment, he took over a troop command again in 1989 with the 71 Field Artillery Battalion in Dülmen . In 1990, however, another transfer followed, this time to Buxtehude to the staff of the 3rd Panzer Division , where Bergmann was a staff officer (G1) until 1992. In 1992 he was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served until 1994 as spokesman for the General Inspector of the Federal Armed Forces , General Klaus Naumann , in the Ministry's press staff. From 1994 to 1996 Bergmann was in command of the 7th Artillery Regiment in Dülmen. From 1996 to 1997 another assignment abroad followed as a military advisor to the High Representative of the United Nations in Bosnia and Herzegovina , Carl Bildt , in Sarajevo .

Back in Germany in 1997, Bergmann took over the Bundeswehr Academy for Information and Communication in Strausberg, East Brandenburg, and ran it for a year. From 1998 to 2000 he served as group leader 22 in Department 2 (Foreign, Security and Development Policy) of the Federal Chancellery in Bonn and Berlin . In 2000, Bergmann took command of Panzergrenadierbrigade 19 in Ahlen as colonel and last commander before the brigade was disbanded in August 2002 . During this time he was from December 2000 to June 2001 in the context of SFOR in an international assignment and acted in Mostar as Chief of Staff of the Multinational Division-SE under the command of the French Major General Robert Meille .

From 2002 to 2004 Bergmann commanded Panzer Brigade 21 in Augustdorf and again completed a foreign assignment from June to November 2003 as commander of the Multinational Brigade (SW) of the KFOR in Prizren in Kosovo . Following this assignment, he took over command of the Inner Guidance Center in Koblenz from 2004 to 2006 . In June 2006 he was transferred to the Bonn Ministry of Defense and was there until 2008 as Head of Staff Department I (Internal Management, Personnel, Training) in the Command Staff of the Armed Forces (FüS I) under the Chief of Staff Manfred Engelhardt .

From February 7, 2008 to July 14, 2011, Bergmann was commander of the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. He was then retired.

In 2008/09 he was Vice President of the Clausewitz Society .

He is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military positions. BMVg press and information staff, February 8, 2008, archived from the original on June 15, 2008 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .