Werner Weisenburger

Werner Weisenburger (born September 18, 1954 ) is a major general a. D. the Bundeswehr . He was Chief of the Armed Forces Office until December 31, 2017 .

Life

His service with the Bundeswehr began in 1973 with the 305 tank artillery battalion in Donauwörth . Later he was u. a. Chief of Staff of the Franco-German Brigade and the last commander of Panzergrenadierbrigade 7 (until 2004). From 2006 to 2009 he was Deputy Head of the Armed Forces Office (SKA) under Thomas Wollny . As such, from April 2006 he was also commander of the Bundeswehr schools and general armed forces training . From 2009 to 2013 Weisenburger was Defense and Army Attaché at the German Embassy in Paris . In September 2013 he became chief of the Armed Forces Office. The handover appeal to his successor, Brigadier General Franz Weidhüner , took place on December 14, 2017.

Scandal Franco A.

As head of the SKA office, Weisenburger was the superior of Lieutenant Franco A., who in 2013 had submitted a master's thesis at the Saint-Cyr Military Academy with völkisch-nationalist, racist and anti-Semitic passages. As part of the disciplinary appraisal , Weisenburger refrained from taking any disciplinary action and merely instructed Franco A. in writing. This became known through the terror investigations against Bundeswehr soldiers from 2017 . Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen then initiated disciplinary proceedings against Weisenburger. The formal disciplinary proceedings were initiated on May 16, 2017 on suspicion of a breach of duty against him and the legal advisor of the SKA, Stephan Hedrich. He was invited as head of the SKA office at the general meeting of the Minister in Berlin in May 2017, but was dismissed shortly beforehand without giving any reason.

Rehabilitation

Weisenburger received a registered letter on December 30, 2017, in camera, that the investigation against him had been closed. Inspector General Volker Wieker also informed him: A culpable violation of official duties could not be determined . Stephan Hedrich was also rehabilitated.

Further memberships

Member of the board of the German Society for Defense Technology (DWT) with close connections to the military organizational areas of the Bundeswehr.

Individual evidence

1. ^ BMVg press and information staff (ed.): Personnel changes in top military positions . Berlin April 3, 2006, p. 2 ( PDF ( Memento from May 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) [accessed on April 3, 2016]).
2. ^ Farewell to Brigadier General Weisenburger. (No longer available online.) German representations in France, July 8, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 28, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
3. ↑ Change of leadership: Brigadier General Franz Weidhüner takes over the Armed Forces Office. Retrieved January 28, 2018 . 
4. ^ Franco A. case - committee of inquiry not excluded. In: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung. May 4, 2017, accessed on May 6, 2017 : “According to RND information, this will also involve the possible dismissal of the head of the SKA Armed Forces Office, Major General Werner Weisenburger, which has already been discussed internally. In the course of Franco A.'s master's thesis, which was scientifically classified as racist, he had further investigations stopped. Weisenburger has ended the required disciplinary proceedings. " 
5. ^ Matthias Gebauer: Bundeswehr takes action against superiors. In: Spiegel online. May 17, 2017. Retrieved June 13, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Holger Möhle: How von der Leyen deals with the soldiers. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn. January 25, 2018, accessed January 28, 2018 .