Winfried Schwenke

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Winfried Schwenke (* 12. April 1935 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German officer of the Air Force of the Armed Forces , most recently in rank lieutenant general . From 1987 to 1991 he was the eleventh head of the Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD) and most recently Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Allied Air Forces Central Europe .

Life

Schwenke was born in 1935. In 1948 his family came to Northeim near Hanover , where he graduated from school in 1950. In the following he worked first in the simple service of the Federal Post Office and then in the higher administrative service.

In 1957 he joined the Air Force as an officer candidate and completed flight training in Canada and the United States . From 1960 to 1966 Schwenke was used in the Fighter Bomber Wing 31 "Boelcke" as a jet pilot on the F84 F weapon system and later on the F-104 Starfighter . In the spring of 1966 he became a squadron captain with Fighter Bomber Squadron 36 in Rheine ( Hopsten ).

From the fall of 1967 to the fall of 1969, Schwenke completed the 12th General Staff Course of the Air Force, training as an officer in the General Staff Service at the Command Academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg . Then Schwenke was assistant in the command staff of the Luftwaffe (Fü L) in Bonn and from autumn 1973 Deputy Commodore of the reconnaissance wing 52 at the Leck Air Base , for which he was retrained in the F-4 Phantom weapon system . From November 2, 1974 to August 9, 1976 Schwenke was Colonel Commodore of Jagdgeschwader 72 "Westphalia" and in 1981 Head of Staff Division  VI of Fü L. Later, as Brigadier General , Schwenke was Head of Planning at the headquarters of the Allied Forces Central Europe in Brunssum . In 1982 Schwenke took over the 3rd  Air Force Division in Kalkar .

In 1987 Schwenke took over the management of the MAD, which he held until 1991. In his last employment he was Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Allied Air Forces Central Europe. In 1993 he retired.

After the beginning of his retirement, Schwenke began studying political science , modern history and philosophy , which he completed in 2004 at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn with the academic degree Master of Arts . As part of his officer training, he had not completed a degree because the universities of the Bundeswehr were only founded later.

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  1. a b c d Winfried Schwenke. In: Munzinger archive . Retrieved April 5, 2020 .
  2. unknown title . In: Yearbook of the aerospace industry . 1981, p. 83 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. 9th  German Bundestag (ed.): Resolution recommendation and report of the Defense Committee (12th committee) as the 1st committee of inquiry under Article 45a, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law . March 12, 1982, p. 10, 241, 243 ( BT-Drs. 9/1465 ).
  4. unknown title . In: European Defense . tape 31 , 1982, pp. 276 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  5. Dieter Krüger, Armin Müller (Hrsg.): Conspiracy as a profession: German intelligence chiefs in the Cold War . Ch. Links Verlag , Berlin 2003, ISBN 978-3-86284-064-9 , pp. 312 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  6. Bernd Lemke , Dieter Krüger , Heinz Rebhan, Wolfgang Schmidt : The Air Force 1950 to 1970: Concept, structure, integration . R. Oldenbourg Verlag , Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57973-4 , p. 869 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  7. unknown title . In: Defense technology . tape 25 , no. 7-12 , 1993, pp. 3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).