Werner Lange (General)

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Werner Lange (born September 28, 1929 in Stargard in Pomerania (now in Poland), † November 15, 2014 in Ulm ) was a German officer ( lieutenant general ).

Life

At the end of the war , Lange was first drafted into the Volkssturm and then into the Wehrmacht . After the British captivity , he completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller in Detmold. He also attended the German School of Booksellers in Cologne and then worked in his profession and as a lecturer.

In 1956 he joined the Bundeswehr . He was trained at the Panzerjäger Training Battalion in Bremen and at the Army Officer School II in Husum. In 1957 he was promoted to lieutenant . Then he was u. a. used as company commander . In 1963 he completed the general staff course at the leadership academy of the German Armed Forces (FüAkBw) in Hamburg and was employed in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) in Bonn. After a station with Panzer Brigade 3 , he became the commander of the 84th Panzer Battalion in Lüneburg and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. From 1971 he was a teaching officer at the FüAkBw. In 1974 he became the commander of the 15th Panzer Brigade . 1976 followed his activity as chief of the staff of the III. Corps in Koblenz. From 1978 to 1980 he was in command of the Inner Guidance Center (ZInFü) in Koblenz. Afterwards he was commander of the 10th Panzer Division in Sigmaringen. From 1983 he was Commanding General of the II Corps in Ulm. In the military maneuver " Flinker Igel " (1984) he was one of the first to introduce the field post system . In 1987, during the " Kecker Spatz " military maneuver, Werner Lange was the first to report a French corps to a Bundeswehr general .

Lange was married and has two sons.

Award

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Individual evidence

  1. Grand escort of honor for Lieutenant General a. D. Werner Lange. Report on the Bundeswehr homepage of November 25, 2014 (accessed on February 17, 2015).
  2. Former general turns 80 . In: Augsburger Allgemeine , October 19, 2009.