Ruprecht Haasler

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Ruprecht Haasler (born March 29, 1936 in Insterburg ; † April 28, 2017 in Melle ) was a German major general in the army of the Bundeswehr . From 1990 to 1994 he was in charge of the integration of the National People's Army into the Bundeswehr as commander and commander in Defense Area VIII / 14th Panzer Grenadier Division .

Military career

Promotions

Training and first commands

After graduating from high school in 1956, Haasler joined the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate and was trained with the armored forces. After completing the Fahnenjunker course at the Army Officer School II in Husum , he was promoted to Fahnenjunker in 1956 . After the platoon leader course at the armored forces school , he was promoted to lieutenant a year later . In 1958 he was transferred to the troops. There he was, since 1960 in the rank of first lieutenant , platoon leader and company commander in the 324 tank battalion in Schwanewede , where he joined the staff of the 32 tank brigade in 1963 . As a staff officer , he performed internal management (S1) and planning and operations (S3) tasks. The following year he was promoted to captain . From 1967 to 1969 he completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . The major then served as a staff officer in the command staff of the armed forces in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . Promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1971 , he was transferred the following year to the 33rd Panzer Brigade in Lingen as General Staff Officer for Planning, Commanding and Operations (G3) . From 1974 to 1976 Haasler took over as Colonel the command over the tank battalion 54 in Wolfhagen and was subsequently Head of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces in Bonn under Inspector General Harald Wust . From 1977 to 1978 Haasler graduated from the NATO Defense College in Rome and then served as commander of Panzer Brigade 2 in Braunschweig .

Service in the rank of general

As brigadier general , Haasler was employed as a military advisor at the NATO mission in Brussels from 1985 to 1988 . Afterwards he was head of the department for planning in the command staff of the army under Henning von Ondarza .

In 1990 Haasler became commander and commander of the newly established Defense Area VIII and division commander of the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division in Neubrandenburg . Together with Ekkehard Richter , the commander and commander of the Military District Command VII / 13th Panzer Grenadier Division in Leipzig , he successfully implemented the integration of the National People's Army into the Bundeswehr. The following year Haasler was appointed major general.

Haasler retired in 1994.

family

Haasler was married and had three children. His family can be traced back to Salzburg exiles .

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Ruprecht Haasler, Hans Göbel: The discomfort with the technological progress in the armed forces . In: Wehrwissenschaftliche Rundschau . Volume 30, No. 2. Verlag ES Mittler, Bonn 1981, p. 39ff.
  • Ruprecht Haasler, Wolfgang Flume: To the tank development in Germany . In: Defense technology . Edited by the German Society for Defense Technology. Volume 20, No. 8, Wehr und Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1988, pp. 20ff.
  • Ruprecht Haasler: The Army Structure 2000 . In: Soldier und Technik . No. 8/1988. Publisher ES Mittler, Bonn 1988.

literature

  • Dermot Bradley, Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model: The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr. 1955-1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals. Part 6b). Volume 2.1: Gaedcke – Hoff. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2562-6 , p. 193 f.
  • Giancarlo Colombo, Horst Kliemann (Ed.): Who's who in Germany. Who's Who the International Red Series Verlag, Munich 1994, Vol. 1 A-Q, ISBN 978-8-8852-4624-9 , p. 2524.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the Braunschweiger Zeitung from May 8, 2017
  2. ↑ Officer candidates of the armored troops 1956. (PDF) In: The black beret. Volume 5, No. 35, pp. 46ff (50). 2006, accessed February 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ a b c Dermot Bradley, Heinz-Peter Würzenthal, Hansgeorg Model (ed.): The generals and admirals of the Bundeswehr. 1955-1999. The military careers (= Germany's generals and admirals. Part 6b) . tape 2 , 1. Gaedcke – Hoff. Biblio-Verlag, Osnabrück 2000, ISBN 3-7648-2562-6 , p. 193 f .
  4. ^ Gesellschaft für Wehrkunde (Ed.): European Wehrkunde . tape 31 . Munich 1982, p. 3 .
  5. ↑ City Chronicle Braunschweig. City of Braunschweig, accessed on February 11, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Ekkehard Richter: Experience reports: How did I experience the development in 1989/90 and how do I see my actions and experiences from today . In: Werner Krätschell (ed.): What was and what remains. Fireside chats with former leading German military from East and West . Military History Research Office, Potsdam. 2nd Edition. Military History Research Office, Potsdam 2008, ISBN 978-3-9808882-9-5 , p. 63-104 (94) .
  7. ^ Frederick Zilian: From Confrontation to Cooperation. The Takeover of the National People's (East German) Army by the Bundeswehr . Praeger Publishers, Westport 1999, ISBN 978-0-275-96546-4 , pp. 73 ff .
  8. ↑ Werner von Scheven: The Bundeswehr and the construction of the East . In: m commissioned by the Military History Research Office, edited by Bruno Thoss (ed.): From the Cold War to German Unity. Analyzes and eyewitness reports on German military history from 1945 to 1995 . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1995, ISBN 978-3-486-56160-9 , p. 473 ff. (483) .
personal data
SURNAME Haasler, Ruprecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Major General of the Army of the Bundeswehr
DATE OF BIRTH March 29, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Insterburg , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 2017
Place of death Melle