Werner von Scheven

Werner von Scheven (born January 26, 1937 in Aumühle / Friedrichsruh) is a retired Lieutenant General . D. of the Army of the Bundeswehr and was Vice President for Technology of the ADAC from 2001 to 2009 .

Military career

Scheven's family lived in Berlin and later in Gießen , where he graduated from high school in 1957 . In the same year he then entered the service of the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate for the armored force. After training as an officer, Scheven was deployed from 1959 to 1968 as a platoon leader and as a personnel, intelligence and operations officer ( S1, S2, S3 ) in the staff of tank battalion 54 in Wolfhagen and then as a staff officer (S1) in the 5 Panzer Grenadier Brigade.

From 1968 to 1970 Scheven completed the general staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg and then until July 1971 the US general staff training at the Command and General Staff College of the US Army in Fort Leavenworth , Kansas . From 1971 to 1975 Scheven was deployed in the staff of the 2nd Jägerdivision and acted there as personnel and then operations officer (G1 and G3) under the command of Major General Carl-Gero von Ilsemann . Then he took over from 1975 to 1976 with the tank battalion 143 in Koblenz again a troop command.

After this assignment, Scheven was transferred to the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn and served there from 1976 to 1982, first as a consultant in the personnel department (BMVg P III 1) and then as head of internal management in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS I 4). Colonel von Scheven's activity in the ministry was interrupted from 1982 to 1985 by a troop command over the 15 Panzer Brigade in Koblenz.

Back in Bonn on April 1, 1985, he was promoted to brigadier general and took over the post of Head of Staff Department I (internal leadership, personnel, training) in the command staff of the armed forces. At the same time, Scheven was in personal union until 1987 commissioner for education and training at the General Inspector of the Bundeswehr (BEA) under the General Inspectors Wolfgang Altenburg and Dieter Wellershoff . On April 1, 1988, Scheven was appointed major general commander of the command academy of the Bundeswehr, which he led until 1990.

After the fall of the Berlin Wall and in the course of turning Scheveningen was moved to Strausberg near Berlin and served from October 1990 as Deputy Commander for the integration of the National People's Army established Bundeswehr Eastern Command (BwKdo East) under the command of Lieutenant General Jörg Schönbohm . On April 16, 1991 Scheven became the commanding general and commander of the corps / territorial command east in Schwielowsee near Potsdam, which had emerged from the BwKdo Ost, which was again reclassified to the IV Corps after his service in 1995 . During this use, Scheven was made lieutenant general on July 1, 1991 . On September 30, 1994 he handed over command to Lieutenant General Joachim Spiering and was retired.

Others

From 1988 to 1990 von Scheven was Vice President of the Clausewitz Society , after retirement he was Vice President for Technology of ADAC e. V. elected. In addition, until 2011 he was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the BMVg for the Military History Research Office and is the author of publications on the subject of the Bundeswehr.

Scheven is Protestant, married, has two sons and now lives in the district of Geltow in the Schwielowsee community near Potsdam.

Fonts

• with Hartmut Schmidt-Petri: How does it work? The Bundeswehr . Meyers Lexikonverlag, Mannheim a. a. 1987, ISBN 3-411-02381-3 .
• "Serving people means learning for a lifetime and saying what is." Thoughts on the 70th birthday of Professor Dr. Rolf Lehmann. In: Common Security - A Difficult Learning Process. Prof. Dr. Rolf Lehmann on his 70th birthday. (Ed.) Dresdener Studiengemeinschaft Sicherheitsppolitik (DSS) e. V .: DSS working papers , Dresden 2005, issue 70, pp. 21-27. urn : nbn: de: bsz: 14-qucosa2-340207

literature

• Klaus Achim Kunz, Harald Oberhem (edit.): Commissioner for education and training of the inspector general of the Bundeswehr. Chronicle 1970-2006 . Edited by the Federal Ministry of Defense , 2nd edition, Bonn 2006, p. 79 ff.