Stephan Thomas

This article deals with General Stephan Thomas. For the journalist see Stephan G. Thomas .

Stephan Thomas (* 22. October 1957 in Berlin ) is a lieutenant general of the army of the armed forces and, since August 31, 2018 German commander shares Multinational Corps / Military underground organization in command army .

Military career

Training and first uses

In 1976 Thomas joined the Bundeswehr as an officer candidate with the 144th Panzer Battalion in Koblenz . In 1977 he completed his training as an armored platoon leader at the Munster Armored Troop School and then began studying economics and organizational sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . He completed this in 1981 and subsequently served as platoon leader and intelligence officer ( S2 ) in Panzerbataillon 34 in Nienburg / Weser until 1985 . From 1985 to 1988 Captain Thomas was company commander of the 4th Company of Panzer Battalion 24 in Braunschweig .

Service as a staff officer

From 1988 to 1990 Thomas completed the 31st Army General Staff Course at the Command Academy of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . He was then promoted to major and until 1993 took over the post of policy officer for military communications in the army command staff in the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense .

In 1993 Thomas was transferred to Neumünster , where he served as Operations Staff Officer (G3) and Chief of Staff of Hans-Georg Atzinger until 1995 . From 1995 to 1997 he was deployed internationally and served as an operations staff officer at the headquarters of the Allied Command Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) in Karup, Denmark . Back in Germany took Lieutenant Colonel finally Thomas command of the tank battalion 423 in bridge and led this until 2000. During this assignment he was on assignment abroad and commanded from November 1999 to May 2000, the use of Battalion 1 / TF Prizren as part of the KFOR in Kosovo .

From 2000 to 2002 Thomas was employed as a lecturer for troop leadership and tutor of the 42nd and 44th general staff course at the leadership academy. In 2002 he was transferred to Neubrandenburg , where he served as Head of Operations and Training (G3) of the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division under the command of Friedrich Riechmann , Wolfgang Korte and Christian Trull until 2004 . In addition, he was deployed from November 2003 to May 2004 as commander of the German-Italian Battle Group and commander of the German SFOR contingent in Bosnia and Herzegovina .

Back in Germany, Thomas took on the position of Head of the Heer Management Department at the Hamburg Management Academy from 2004 to 2007. In 2007 he was also a course participant at the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. This was followed by a transfer to the Bonn Ministry, where from 2007 to 2010 he served as Head of the Unit General Issues, Troop Leadership and Army Exercises and Multinational Cooperation in the Army Command Staff under the command of the Chief of Staff, Werner Freers .

Service in the rank of general

In April 2010 Thomas took command of 12th Panzer Brigade from Colonel Michael Uhrig. His appointment as brigadier general followed a short time later. From June 24th, 2010, Thomas was again on a foreign assignment, this time as a contingent leader of the German KFOR contingent in Prizren. His deployment ended in October 2010. He handed the leadership brigade on October 4, 2012 to his successor. As early as July 2012, he was employed in the 1st German-Dutch Corps. In October 2014 Thomas took over the official duties of the Deputy Commander of the Rapid Forces Division from Brigadier General Reinhardt Zudrop . He handed over this post to Brigadier General Gert Gawellek on February 29, 2016 in order to take over the post of Deputy Commander of the 1st German-Dutch Corps from Major General Leo Beulen on March 9, 2016 . On August 31, 2018, Thomas took over the post of Lieutenant General Frank Leidenberger as Commander of the German Units of Multinational Corps / Basic Military Organization in the Army Command. In this post he was promoted to lieutenant general shortly afterwards.

Web links

Military vita

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Command baton passed on. oberpfalznetz.de, October 5, 2012, accessed on February 22, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Article in the Oberhessische Presse from August 28, 2014
3. ↑ Flying change - new "General Flugbetrieb Heer" in the Rapid Forces division. In: http://www.deutschesheer.de . PIZ Deutsches Heer, February 29, 2016, accessed on September 1, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Rotation in the executive suite of the 1st German-Dutch Corps. In: www.deutschesheer.de. Retrieved April 6, 2016 . 
5. ↑ Change of office in the Army Command: "Mister Digitization" logs off. In: http://www.deutschesheer.de . PIZ Deutsches Heer, August 31, 2018, accessed on September 1, 2018 .