Walter Huhn (General)

Walter chicken (* 14. May 1958 in Walsrode ) is a Major General of the Air Force of the Armed Forces and since March 29, 2018 Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the center air operations in Kalkar / Uedem .

Military career

In 1976, Huhn joined the German Armed Forces and trained as an officer in the Air Force. From 1978 to 1981 he studied electrical engineering at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . From 1981 to 1989 he was trained and deployed as a radar control officer with the 34th Telecommunications Regiment. From 1989 to 1991, Huhn completed the general staff course at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg. From 1991 to 1993 he was company commander of the radar command company 121 in Goch and squadron chief of an air force security squadron. In 1993 he was employed as Head of Department Ia in Department A3 of the Air Force Command in Cologne - Wahn . From 1994 to 1996 he was employed as a ministerial officer FÜ S III 7 in the command staff of the armed forces in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . This was followed by a post as a staff officer at SHAPE in Mons ( Belgium ) from 1996 to 1999 . Subsequently, Huhn was appointed from 1999 to 2000 as a consultant in the secretariat of the commission “Common Security and the Future of the Bundeswehr” ( Weizsäcker Commission ). From 2000 to 2001 he was in command of Radar Guidance Department 24 in Freising . From 2001 to 2003, Huhn was Head of Department at the Air Force Office, before becoming Head of the Military Advisory Staff at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York in 2003 . From 2006 to 2009, Huhn was head of the military policy department at the permanent German mission to the European Union in Brussels. From 2009 to 2011 he was employed as deputy head of the planning team in the Federal Ministry of Defense . From 2011 to 2014, Huhn was employed in the European External Action Service in Brussels. A second assignment followed from 2014 to 2015 as head of the military policy department at the permanent German mission to the European Union , before Huhn became Commander NATO CIS Group and Deputy Chief of Staff CIS and Cyber ​​Defense at NATO headquarters SHAPE in 2015. On March 29, 2018, Huhn replaced Major General Bernhard Schulte Berge as deputy commander and chief of staff at the Center for Air Operations in Kalkar / Uedem .

Awards

• Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in gold

Private

Huhn is married and has 4 children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Andreas Gebbink: Military honors for Schulte Berge in Kalkar. In: Neue Ruhr Zeitung. Funke Medien, March 29, 2018, accessed April 6, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Guided air operations center. In: www.luftwaffe.de. Air Force, accessed April 6, 2018 .