Volker Halbauer
Volker Halbauer (born December 17, 1955 in Kürnbach ) is a lieutenant general ret. D. of the army of the Bundeswehr . Until April 7, 2016 he was the commanding general of the 1st German-Dutch Corps in Münster .
Military career
Training and first uses
Halbauer joined the Bundeswehr on August 1, 1975. After training as an officer , he served as a youth officer . He began studying economics and organizational sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg , graduating in 1980 with a degree in business administration. From 1980 to 1987 he served as platoon leader , intelligence officer ( S2 ) and company commander in the paratrooper battalions 252 and 253 in Nagold .
Service as a staff officer
From 1987 to 1989 he completed the general staff course at the command and control academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and was then promoted to major . Afterwards, Halbauer was deployed from 1989 to 1991 first as an intelligence staff officer (G2) and then as an operations staff officer (G3) in the staff of the 1st Airborne Division in Bruchsal under the command of Major General Georg Bernhardt.
From 1991 to 1992 graduated Halbauer in the United States , the general staff training of the United States Army in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . Back in Germany he served as Operations Staff Officer (G3) of Airborne Brigade 26 in Saarlouis under the command of Colonel Helmut Harff until 1994 . During this time, from May to November 1993, he worked abroad as part of UNOSOM II as head of the staff of the 1st contingent of the German Somalia Support Association .
From 1994 to 1996 Lieutenant Colonel Halbauer took over command of the Parachute Anti-Tank Battalion 283 in Münsingen . After this troop command, he completed the Fellowship Course at the School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS) again in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . Back in Germany, he was transferred to Hamburg, where he served from 1997 to 1999 at the leadership academy as a lecturer for troop leadership and tutor in the national general staff course (LGAN). In 1999 Halbauer was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn , where he served as a planning officer in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS VI 2) under Rear Admiral Jörg Auer until 2000 . From 2000 to 2002 Halbauer was again employed at the leadership academy, this time as head of the general staff course.
He then served from 2002 to 2003 as Chief of Staff of the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen under the command of Major General Jan Oerding . In 2004 Halbauer was transferred back to the ministry, where he served until 2006 as head of army development and study work in the command staff of the army (FüH III 3) under Major General Volker Wieker .
Service in the rank of general
On August 4, 2006, Colonel Halbauer took over command of Air Mobile Brigade 1 from Reinhard Wolski in Fritzlar and led it until December 5, 2008. In this role, Halbauer was appointed Brigadier General. He passed this command on to Jürgen Setzer and finally moved again to the Ministry of Defense in 2008, where he served as Head of the Management, Conceptual and Mission Policy Department in the Army Command Staff (FüH III) under the command of Major General Werner Freers until 2010 .
After Freers was appointed inspector of the Army , Halbauer succeeded him on March 24, 2010 as Chief of Staff, Command Staff of the Army. On April 1, 2010, Halbauer was appointed major general.
On September 7, 2012, Halbauer replaced Erhard Drews as the commander of KFOR . He held this command until September 6, 2013. From September 25, 2013 to April 7, 2016, he was the commanding general of the 1st German-Dutch Corps in Münster . When he took over the post, he was promoted to lieutenant general. On May 24, 2016, Volker Halbauer was retired in Strausberg with a major tattoo by the Inspector of the Army Lieutenant General Jörg Vollmer .
Private
Halbauer is married and has two children.
Web links
- Vita on the Corps website (PDF; 48 kB)
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Duchscherer: Change of command in the I. German-Dutch Corps. Bundeswehr - Heer, April 7, 2016, accessed April 8, 2016 .
- ^ Elmar Ries: Change of command in the corps. Westfälische Nachrichten, September 25, 2013, accessed on September 30, 2013 .
- ↑ Thomas Wiegold : German General Volker Halbauer is the next KFOR commander. augengeradeaus.net, August 21, 2012, accessed on August 31, 2012 .
- ↑ Big tattoo in Strausberg. The German Army bids farewell to the commanding general of the German-Dutch corps. http://www.deutschesheer.de/ , May 20, 2016, accessed on July 31, 2016 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Halbauer, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lieutenant general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th December 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kürnbach |