Walter Jertz

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Walter Jertz (born May 31, 1945 in Mainz ) is a retired German Lieutenant General . D. the air force and author. He was Commander of the Air Force Command Command from 2002 to 2006 . He has been mayor of Oppenheim since he was sworn in on June 21, 2018 .

Life

Jertz spent his childhood and youth in Oppenheim am Rhein . In 1965 he completed his education at the local modern language grammar school with the Abitur.

In 1965 Jertz joined the Air Force as an officer and pilot candidate. After completing officer and pilot training in Germany and the United States of America , he was transferred to Fighter Bomber Wing 31 "Boelcke" in Nörvenich , where he flew the F 104 G "Starfighter" weapon system as a fighter-bomber pilot.

From 1976 to 1978 he trained as a general staff officer at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . This was followed by uses in alternation between military and general staff service in the Bundeswehr and in the integrated ( NATO ) area. In 1983 he was retrained in the Tornado weapon system . From 1988 to 1991 he commanded the 32nd fighter-bomber squadron in Lechfeld in the rank of colonel as commodore . In April 1994 he became  Chief of the Air Force Command South in Meßstetten , while at the same time being promoted to Brigadier General .

In June 1995, Jertz was given direct command of all German air forces deployed in the former Yugoslavia for peacekeeping. This was the first deployment of German soldiers on the basis of a Bundestag resolution since the Federal Republic of Germany came into existence . After six months he returned to Germany.

From April 1996 to September 2000 Jertz led the 1st Air Force Division based in Karlsruhe . During this period - from the end of April 1999 to mid-June 1999 - he worked as NATO's military press spokesman during Operation Allied Force in the war in Kosovo.

From October 2000 to September 2001, Jertz, who had since been promoted to Lieutenant General , commanded three military headquarters in personal union: the National Air Force Command North, the NATO command post Combined Air Operations Center 2 and the Reaction Force Air Staff in Kalkar, Niederrhein .

From October 2002 Jertz was the commander of the air force command in Cologne-Wahn and thus the superior of all members of the air force operations units. It was responsible for around 32,000 soldiers, around 8,000 civilian employees, as well as 460 combat aircraft and around 180 transport aircraft of the Luftwaffe, which could be used for deployment and humanitarian aid.

In May 2006 Jertz retired.

For Marcus Held , who resigned from the mayor's office of Oppenheim on suspicion of infidelity and dubious business , a non-partisan alliance proposed Jertz, who was not partisan, for election as mayor on June 3, 2018. Jertz was elected the new mayor of Oppenheim on June 3, 2018 with 84.6% of the vote. There was no opposing candidate, the turnout was 40.8%. Jertz was sworn in as Mayor of Oppenheim on the evening of June 21, 2018. In the local elections in 2019 Jertz was 88.4 percent of the vote against the candidate of the group of voters Bürgerliste Oppenheim re-elected Helmut Krethe.

honors and awards

Jertz is the bearer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. As a military medal and badge of honor, it bears the Cross of Honor of the German Armed Forces in gold, the German Armed Forces Medal ( United Nation Peace Force ), the NATO Medal (for the mission in the former Yugoslavia), the Medal of Honor of the Czech Air Force "50 Years of NATO" and that Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defense of the Czech Republic in gold.

For his commitment in the context of humanitarian aid and for his efforts to promote the tolerant coexistence of people, he was awarded the KulturPreis Sonderpreis 2006 of the KulturForumsEuropa.

Others

Jertz supports the “Deutsche Thalassemia eV” and the aid campaign “Children Art Soldiers Help eV”, which was launched by the Bundeswehr soldiers.

Books

Non-fiction

  • In the service of peace - tornadoes over Bosnia. 1997.
  • In the service of peace - tornadoes over the Balkans. 2nd Edition. 2000, ISBN 3-7637-6204-3 .
  • War of words - power of images. Bernard and Graefe, Bonn 2001, ISBN 3-7637-6210-8 .
  • Tornado - technology, tactics, use. 2005, ISBN 3-7637-6256-6 .
  • (Ed.): Strategic information and communication management - manual of security communication and media work. 2006, ISBN 3-7637-6274-4 .

Children's books

  • Walter Jertz (text), Nathalie Müller (illustrations): Volume 1 Are you coming to Africa with us? 2003, ISBN 3-00-012573-6 .
  • Walter Jertz (text), Nathalie Müller (illustrations): Volume 2 Tell me more about Africa! 2005, ISBN 3-00-016666-1 .
  • Walter Jertz (text), Nathalie Müller (illustrations): Volume 3 Back in Africa. 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-023190-2 .

Co-author and contributions

  • Use of the air force over Bosnia. In: Peter Goebel (Ed.): From Cambodia to Kosovo. Foreign missions of the Bundeswehr. 2000.
  • Karin Storch in conversation with Peter Forster, Walter Jertz and Friedrich Kittler: Are pictures weapons? In: Peter Christian Hall: War with Images. How television constructs reality. 2001.
  • Information warfare - media work as a means of leadership using the example of the Kosovo conflict. In: Gerhard P. Groß (Hrsg.): Leadership thinking in European and North American armed forces in the 19th and 20th centuries. 2001.
  • The future of national air forces within the framework of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) - A perspective of military multinationality? In: Werner Hoyer, Gerd F. Kaldrack (Ed.): European Security and Defense Policy (ESVP). The way to integrated European armed forces? 2002.
  • The NATO peace efforts in the Balkans: "Information Warfare / Information Operations" - an assessment using the example of the air force operation "Operation Allied Force" / The NATO Peace Efforts in the Balkans: "Information Warfare / Information Operations" an assessment using the Example of the Air Force Action "Operation Allied Force". In: Bundesnachrichtendienst, Information Warfare - Combat with and for information. 2003.
  • with Carsten Bockstette: Military-political perceptions and the future prospects of strategic information management. The development of crisis communication from the Kosovo Operation "Allied Force 1999" to Operation "Iraqi Freedom". In: Christian Büttner, Joachim von Gottberg, Verena Metze-Mangold (eds.): The war in the media. 2004.
  • with Carsten Bockstette: "Strategic Information Management". Information and public relations work from a military perspective. In: Martin Löffelholz (ed.): War as a media event II - crisis communication in the 21st century. 2004.
  • with Carsten Bockstette: Perspektywy Zarzadzania Strategicznego Informacjami / Military-political perceptions and the future prospects of strategic information management. The development of crisis communication from "Kosovo Operation Allied Force 1999 to Operation" Iraqui Freedom "" . In: Akademia Obrony Narodowej. Zeszyty Naukowe, Warszawa, 2004.
  • The Air Force over Bosnia-Herzegovina 1995. In: 50 Years of the Bundeswehr - Decided for Peace. 2005.
  • Media and Security Policy: Experience as First National Commander in action and as military spokesman at NATO HQ. In: Dieter Ose (Hrsg.): Security-political communication in change. 2008.
  • Joint European Armed Forces - Vision or Illusion. In: Olaf Leiße (Ed.): Reforms for Europe. 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ulrich Gerecke: Walter Jertz sworn in as mayor of Oppenheim - elected councilor. In: Allgemeine Zeitung . VRM , June 21, 2018, accessed June 22, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Air Force: Personnel changes in top military positions. Press release of the Federal Ministry of Defense of May 24, 2006
  3. ↑ Ulrich Gerecke: Non-partisan action alliance proposes Lieutenant General a. D. as the successor of the resigned Oppenheim city chief Held. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. VRM, March 5, 2018, accessed March 5, 2018 .
  4. ^ After the resignation of Marcus Held - Jertz the new mayor of Oppenheim. In: SWR Aktuell . ARD , June 3, 2018, accessed June 4, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Ulrich Gerecke: Walter Jertz was elected mayor of Oppenheim with 84.6 percent. In: Allgemeine Zeitung. VRM, June 3, 2018, accessed June 4, 2018 .
  6. ^ Result of the mayoral election in Oppenheim 2019 , Verbandsgemeinde Rhein-Selz
  7. ↑ European Culture Prize 2006 on realschule-bretzelnweg.de
  8. ↑ Der Hessischer Rundfunk: ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: Walter Jertz: Are you coming to Africa? )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.hr-online.de
personal data
SURNAME Jertz, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military, General of the German Air Force
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz