Walter Ohm (General)
Walter Jakob Ohm (born March 24, 1958 in Weißenthurm am Rhein ) is a major general a. D. the Bundeswehr . From April 2016 to April 2019 he was Deputy Chief of Staff Support at the NATO headquarters Allied Joint Force Command in Brunssum , Netherlands .
Military career
Training and first uses
After graduating from the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium Neuwied Ohm became effective July 1 1977 as an officer cadet in the repair troop of army one.
After training as an officer and studying mechanical engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg (graduation as Dipl.-Ing.), From 1982 to 1988 he was employed in the repair battalion 1 (3rd company in Luttmersen), in the tank training brigade 9 (repair training company 90 in Munster) and in the Repair battalion 3 (repair training company 6/3 in Lüneburg) as platoon leader , repair officer and company commander . From 1988 to 1990, Ohm was employed at the Technical Troop 1 School and the Army Technical College for Technology as a lecture hall director for officer candidates.
Service as general staff officer
Immediately after completing his general staff training at the command academy of the Bundeswehr from 1990 to 1992 (33rd general staff course of the army), Ohm was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn to work as a consultant on fundamental matters relating to the organization of the army. This was followed by assignments in the General Staff Service as G 3 (operational planning and leadership) and Chief of Staff of Panzer Brigade 39 and as General Staff Officer in the planning group of the Allied Headquarters Land Forces (LANDCENT) in Heidelberg. During this time, Ohm was also in Sarajevo, first at IFOR headquarters and later at SFOR headquarters as a general staff officer in the planning cell of the operations department (CJ 3 CONOPS) on an international assignment.
From 1998 to 2000 Ohm then served in Luttmersen near Neustadt am Rübenberge as commander of the maintenance battalion 141. During this time, another assignment abroad followed from November 1999 to June 2000 as chief of the staff of the KFOR logistics regiment .
Then Ohm was transferred again to the Federal Ministry of Defense to work as a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces as part of the Bundeswehr reform initiated by the then Federal Minister of Defense Rudolf Scharping , the conception of the new armed forces base with a focus on logistics and armaments and as one of his Main projects to initiate the establishment of the armed forces support command. In the newly established command staff of the Armed Forces Base, Ohm was also the head of the Armed Forces Base in the coordination staff for operational tasks of the Bundeswehr until November 2001.
From November 2001 to June 2003, Ohm served as Chief Staff Officer, Office Manager and Personal Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces . At the beginning of this employment, Ohm was promoted to colonel . In June 2003, Ohm became head of the newly established Fü S Controlling unit in the command staff of the armed forces and thus controller of both the inspector general of the German armed forces and the inspector of the armed forces base.
From November 2005 to October 2009, Ohm was in the Armed Forces Support Command as Group Leader I in the Logistics / G 4 department, responsible for the logistical concepts and ensuring the logistical follow-up supply of all Bundeswehr missions abroad as well as for the strategic relocation and relocation of all Bundeswehr contingents to the operational areas and back to Germany.
Service as a general
In November 2009 Ohm became commander of the Technical School Land Systems and Technical School of the Army for Technology and General of the Army Logistics Forces in Aachen. From 2012 to 2015 Ohm was Head of the Controlling and Accounting Subdivision in the Federal Ministry of Defense, and from October 2015 he served as Head of the Deployment Department in the Armed Forces Command . From November 2013 to May 2014 Brigadier General Ohm was on an overseas mission in Afghanistan as Director Support of ISAF's Regional Command North. In this role, in addition to ensuring personnel, logistical, medical and IT support, he was primarily responsible for the relocation of the German contingent, the largest logistical operation in the history of the Bundeswehr. On April 1, 2016, Ohm was promoted to Deputy Chief of Staff Support at NATO Headquarters Joint Forces Command Brunssum and promoted to Major General. In this function he was responsible for the operational readiness of the NATO Rapid Reaction Force ( NATO Response Force - NRF). On April 1, 2019, Ohm retired.
Medal of Honor for Special Achievements
In recognition of special achievements, Ohm awarded soldiers a brass medal of honor. It bears the inscription on the front: " In thanks and recognition of your work - Walter J. Ohm - Brigadier General "
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - March 2016. In: www.personal.bundeswehr.de. Retrieved April 3, 2016 .
- ^ WHG Alumni , homepage of the Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium, Neuwied, accessed on April 21, 2018.
- ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - April 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . BMVg's press and information staff, April 2, 2019, accessed on April 5, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ohm, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ohm, Walter Jakob (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German brigadier general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 24, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Weißenthurm on the Rhine |