Rolf Lehmann (General)

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Rolf Lehmann (1989)

Rolf Lehmann (born May 5, 1934 in Leipzig , † July 11, 2005 in Kesselsdorf ) was a German major general of the National People's Army of the German Democratic Republic .

He was professor for military science and deputy head of science and research at the military academy "Friedrich Engels" in Dresden.

Life

Origin and education

Rolf Lehmann was born on May 5, 1934 in Leipzig in a working-class family as the son of a locksmith. He finished school after the 10th grade with the secondary school leaving certificate and learned the profession of electromechanic from 1950 to 1952. He became a member of the youth organization Free German Youth (FDJ) .

On September 10, 1952, he joined the Kasernierte Volkspolizei (KVP) and was trained as an officer student at the officers' school of the Volkspolizei-Luft in Pirna and Kamenz until 1954 . There Lehmann joined the SED in 1954 .

Professional career

After being appointed officer (1954), Lehmann was employed as an officer in the cadre department in the KVP office in Cottbus and was accepted into the National People's Army in early 1956. From 1956 to 1957 he worked as a senior officer in the cadre department , sub-section administration of the air force.

Lehmann graduated from 1957 to 1962 at the military academy of the air forces "JA Gagarin" in Moscow , which he graduated with a gold medal.

Afterwards he was a subject teacher and main subject teacher at the military academy "Friedrich Engels" in Dresden and from 1965 head of the chair of fighter pilots in air defense.

In 1968 he received his first academic title Doctor of Military Science (Dr. rer. Mil.) At the Military Academy and was appointed lecturer in military science in 1969.

In 1972, Lehmann was deputy commander for research in the section Air Force / Air Defense at the Military Academy in Dresden.

After a higher academic course at the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR in Moscow, he graduated in 1978, the Promotion B for Doctor of Military Sciences (Dr. sc. Mil.) And was in the same year to full professor appointed.

In 1980 Lehmann became the deputy head of the Military Academy for Science and Research . He was responsible for the research work at the military academy as well as the scientific qualification, led the academic graduation of the teaching staff of the military academy and the other military universities of the GDR in the field of military science.

During this time he was dean of the military science faculty of the scientific council of the military academy and became a member of the council for academic degrees at the minister for higher and technical education of the GDR .

On October 7, 1984, Rolf Lehmann was appointed major general and became deputy head of the Military Academy for Science and Research.

In July 1988 he became a member of the Scientific Council for Peace Research at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

He took part in the annual conference of the Institute for East West Strategic Studies (IEWSS) in Potsdam (June 1988), the International Meeting for Nuclear Weapon Free Zones in Berlin (June 1988) and the round table discussion of representatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact on conventional disarmament in Budapest (August 1988).

Egon Krenz (center), Deputy Chairman of the State Council of the GDR, leads the delegation of the Central Committee of the SED to the "Saarbrücken Talks". Colonel-General Fritz Streletz (3rd from right), Deputy Minister for National Defense of the GDR and Chief of the NVA Main Staff, Gunter Rettner (3rd from left), Head of the International Politics and Economics Department of the Central Committee, Ambassador Horst Neubauer (2nd from left) , Head of the Permanent Mission of the GDR in the FRG, Major General Dr Günter Hiemann (left), Deputy Chief of the Air Force Air Defense Staff, and Major General Prof. Dr. Rolf Lehmann (2nd from right), deputy head of the "Friedrich Engels" military academy.
Rolf Lehmann (left), Deputy C-MA, participant in the Saarbrücker Talks, on June 7, 1989.

At the first meeting of officers of the National People's Army and the Bundeswehr in March 1989, Lehmann led the NVA delegation. In June 1989 Lehmann was a member of the GDR delegation to the "Saarbrücken Talks".

From February 1990, Rolf Lehmann took over the management of the interdisciplinary research area Security [politics] (IWBS) at the Military Academy, the results of which were published publicly in the series of the Military Academy Working Papers IWBS .

On November 4, 1989, Lehmann organized an extraordinary meeting of the Scientific Council of the Military Academy on new security policy thinking. He initiated the elaboration of a GDR military doctrine in December 1989, which in February 1990 led to the GDR's military policy guidelines . I Furthermore, Rolf Lehmann was a participant in the International Seminar for Confidence- and Security-Building Measures in Vienna (January 1990), a delegation from the military academy to visit the command academy of the German Armed Forces (June 1990) and at the conference "War intolerance of modern industrialized countries" (June 1990 ) in Hamburg.

Immediately before German reunification , he was released on September 30, 1990.

Rolf Lehmann (2002)

In October 1990 Lehmann was a co-founder of the Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V. and its chairman from 1990 to 2005.

Awards

literature

Fonts (selection)

See also

→ List of generals of the NVA air force

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Klaus Froh, Rüdiger Wenzke (ed.): The generals and admirals of the NVA: A biographical manual . 5th, through. Edition. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-86153-438-9
  2. ↑ a b c See Wolfgang Scheler : In memoriam Rolf Lehmann. In: Geopolitical and Military Strategic Thinking in the Russian Federation. (pdf, 3.6 MB) Ed .: Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitspektiven (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, Issue 77, Dresden 2005, pp. 5–13.
  3. ↑ a b Neues Deutschland from December 30, 1978
  4. ↑ People's Army (newspaper) No. 31 from July 1988
  5. ↑ See IWBS working papers . Ed .: Military Academy "Friedrich Engels", Dresden 1990, Issues 1 to 3. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-341704
  6. ↑ See winners of the Friedrich Engels Prize at the Military Academy. In: Wolfgang Demmer, Eberhard Haueis: Military Academy "Friedrich Engels" of the National People's Army 1959 to 1990. A documentation. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers, issue 95 (special edition), Dresden 2008, pp. 126–129. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-321551
personal data
SURNAME Lehmann, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German major general of the NVA
DATE OF BIRTH May 5, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH July 11, 2005