Tobias Lagenstein

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Tobias Lagenstein (born April 28, 1980 in Wildeshausen ; † May 28, 2011 in Taloqan , Afghanistan ) was a soldier in the German Armed Forces , most recently in the rank of sergeant in the police force command in Bremen .

Lagenstein decided at the age of 20 to join the armed forces. He did his service first with the paratroopers , then with the military police . There he completed an apprenticeship as a bodyguard . Lagenstein was the first German military police officer to be killed in action.

Attack in Taloqan on May 28, 2011

Taloqan Governor's Seat in 2009

On May 28, 2011, a memorial service for Captain Markus Matthes, who was killed in a booby trap on May 25, 2011 , was held in the Kunduz military camp in Afghanistan . Lagenstein was assigned to head the personal protection team for Major General Markus Kneip , the German contingent leader of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in the Hindu Kush. After the memorial service, Kneip took part in a security conference with the northern Afghan police chief General Mohammed Daud Daud in the governor's seat of Tachar province in the city of Taloqan . When the conference participants left the governor's palace, the assassin went up to the group and detonated an explosive device intended for Daud Daud. The suicide bomber , a so-called "internal perpetrator", was wearing a police uniform. In the stop Daud Daud, were killed four Afghans and location stone. Major General Kneip survived seriously wounded. Kneip's advisor Major Thomas Tholi was also killed.

In addition to the central memorial service in the Protestant Epiphany Church in Hanover, which was also attended by the then Wildeshauser Mayor Kian Shahidi, Defense Minister Thomas de Maizière , the Inspector General of the Bundeswehr , General Volker Wieker , and the Hanoverian Regional Bishop Ralf Meister , was on the initiative of friends and acquaintances of the killed Sergeant Major also held a memorial service on the market square of his hometown Wildeshausen .

Name of a barracks in Hanover

Sign at the main entrance of the Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne

On March 28, 2018, the Emmich-Cambrai-Kaserne in Hanover was renamed Hauptfeldwebel-Lagenstein-Kaserne . For the first time in the history of the German Armed Forces, a barracks was named after a soldier who died in a foreign deployment. The initiative to rename the barracks came from the troops themselves. The relatives, the Inspector of the Armed Forces Command , the City of Hanover and the Ministry of Defense then had to agree. The renaming took place as part of a celebratory roll call in which the Federal Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen took part, and was perceived in connection with the new traditional decree of the Bundeswehr, also signed on March 28, 2018, as a sign of a new understanding of tradition.

Individual evidence

  1. Bundeswehr - Why is a barracks named after Tobias Lagenstein? - GT - Göttinger Tageblatt. Retrieved on March 28, 2018 (German).
  2. The two sides of the same coin: The 5th anniversary of the death of Captain Markus Matthes . ( dbwv.de [accessed on March 28, 2018]).
  3. fifth anniversary of the death of Major Tholi and Sergeant able stone . ( dbwv.de [accessed on March 28, 2018]).
  4. Moving funeral service for dead soldiers . ( bz-berlin.de [accessed on March 28, 2018]).
  5. DIE WELT: Traditional Decree: Barracks are renamed after soldiers who died in Afghanistan . In: THE WORLD . March 28, 2018 ( welt.de [accessed on March 28, 2018]).
  6. Nordwest-Zeitung: Defense Minister Von Der Leyen In Hanover: Barracks are renamed today after Wildeshauser . In: NWZonline . ( nwzonline.de [accessed on March 28, 2018]).