Wilhelm Green

Wilhelm Grün (born February 26, 1959 in Gangelt ) is a major general in the Army of the German Armed Forces and department head of operations in the Armed Forces Command in Bonn .

Military career

Training and first uses

In July 1978, after graduating from high school, Grün entered the service of the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate in the armored infantry troops. After completing the first part of his training, he was transferred to the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg in the fall of 1979 and began studying economics and organizational sciences. During his studies he was made a lieutenant on July 1, 1981. In 1983 he completed his studies with a degree in business administration and was transferred to the Panzergrenadierbataillon 342 in Koblenz . There he was first employed as platoon leader , later in the battalion staff as head of staff departments S2 and S6. His appointment as first lieutenant took place on July 1, 1984. In the same battalion, he was appointed chief of the 2nd company in 1986 , and was promoted to captain on April 1, 1987 .

General staff training and service as a staff officer

From 1990 to 1992 Grün completed the 33rd general staff course at the command and control academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . After this course, he stayed at the leadership academy with his appointment as major and was employed there as the "G3 Army Leadership Department". This was followed in 1994 as a G2 at the headquarters of the Allied Land Forces Schleswig-Holstein and Jutland (LANDJUT) in Rendsburg and on October 1, 1995, Grün became a lieutenant colonel . In 1996 a one-year course followed in Switzerland as a participant in the “11th International Training Course on Security Policy” at the Geneva Center for Security Policy (GCSP) .

Back in Germany, he assumed command of the Infantry Battalion 192 in 1997 Ahlen before 1999 at the Federal Ministry of Defense (MoD) in Berlin in the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces has been used as a speaker and deputy head of Division III 1 "Military Political foundations and bilateral relations." In 2001 he was employed again at the BMVg in Berlin as adjutant (army) to the inspector general of the Bundeswehr . After this assignment, he returned to Hamburg in 2002 to the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy, where Grün became a lecturer in "Conceptual Basics / Land Forces Operations" and deputy head of the Army Leadership Department. In this position he was promoted to colonel on March 1, 2003 . Subsequently, he moved to Hardthöhe in Bonn as Head of Division III 1 “Basic Issues of Troop Leadership / Exercises / Multinational Cooperation Army” in the command staff of the Army .

General uses

On July 18, 2007, Grün received another troop command and became the commander of Panzerlehrbrigade 9 in Munster . He was appointed Brigadier General with effect from February 1, 2008 . He handed this command over to Bernd Schütt on September 17, 2010 . Grün took on the tasks of the Branchhead Joint Plans service post set up within the framework of the new NATO command structure in the Joint Force Command Lisbon in Lisbon . From January 2013 to July 2016, Grün was Chief of Staff for Operations at LANDCOM HQ Izmir ( Turkey ). From 20 July 2016 to 11 July 2019 was green, with promotion to major general, commander of the NATO Joint Force Training Center in Bydgoszcz ( Poland ). Green became the successor to Rear Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, Head of the Deployment Department in the Armed Forces Command in Bonn.

Private

Grün is married and has three children.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - July 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff in the BMVg, July 5, 2019, accessed on July 16, 2019 . 
2. ↑ zoltan sashalmi: The JFTC Commander-2016. In: www.jftc.nato.int. Archived from the original on July 26, 2016 ; Retrieved July 26, 2016 . 
3. ^ Polish Army Major General Adam Joks in Lead of the Joint Force Training Center. In: http://www.jftc.nato.int . PAO JFTC, July 11, 2019, accessed July 15, 2019 .