Wolfgang Brost

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Flotilla Admiral Wolfgang Brost (1982)

Wolfgang Horst Brost (born January 20, 1936 in Berlin ; † September 1, 2016 in Flensburg ) was a German rear admiral in the German Navy .

Life

Brost joined the German Navy as a member of Crew V / 56 as an officer candidate at the Mürwik Naval School . After completing his officer training, he became a lieutenant in the sea in April 1958 and was an officer on watch on minesweepers between 1959 and 1960 and then from 1961 to 1962 a group officer and lecture hall director at the Mürwik naval school. He was then used as an officer on watch between 1962 and 1965 and finally as a commander on minesweepers, before he was the flag lieutenant of Vice Admiral Heinrich Gerlach , the commander of the fleet, from 1965 to 1966 . After training as an operations officer in the Dutch Navy from 1966 to 1967 , he completed the 9th Admiral Staff Officer Course (ASTO) between 1967 and 1969.

After his graduation, Brost was an S 3 officer (planning, commanding and managing ongoing operations) on the staff of a minesweeping squadron from 1969 to 1971 and deputy naval attaché at the embassy in the United Kingdom between 1971 and 1974 , before he succeeded Corvette Captain Hartwig Sellschopp between October 1974 and his replacement by frigate captain Konrad Bürger in February 1977 as frigate captain commander of the 5th minesweeping squadron and between March and September 1977 briefly advisor in the department Fü M III 1 (conception and planning specifications, international cooperation) in the naval command staff . In October 1977 Kapitän zur See Brost succeeded Kapitän zur See Dieter Wellershoff as commander of the flotilla of the mine forces and remained in this position until September 1981, after which he was replaced by Captain Klaus-Peter Niemann .

After attending a course at the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London until December 1982 , Brost was promoted to Flotilla Admiral and succeeded Flotilla Admiral Dieter Ehrhardt as commander of the Mürwik Naval School . He remained in this position until September 30, 1983, after which on October 1, 1983 Flotilla Admiral Horst-Helmut Wind took over the position. Subsequently, on October 1, 1983, he himself became head of the Fü M III staff department (conception, planning, leadership) in the naval command staff and held this position until March 31, 1986. From April 1, 1986 to March 31, 1989, he was deputy head of the staff department Fü S III (military policy and arms control) in the command staff of the armed forces (FüS) in the Federal Ministry of Defense .

On April 1, 1989 Brost was as Rear Admiral Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Operations DDO (Deputy Director for Operations) at the headquarters of the Allied Forces of NATO in Northern Europe ( Allied Forces Northern Europe ) . He was retired on June 30, 1993.

He later became involved with the Glücksburg Historical Society , as honorary chairman of the Edvard Munch House in Warnemünde and for the German-Norwegian Friendship Society (DNF). In 2008 he was awarded the Order of Merit of the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania for his commitment to the cultural relations between Germany and Norway .

Fonts

literature

  • Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry , p. 28, Verlag Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, ISBN 3-7637-5865-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Minesweeping Squadron ( Memento from April 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Federal Archives)
  2. ↑ German Navy - press release / press date: Jubilee - half a century of the 5th minesweeping squadron (press portal of March 24, 2009)
  3. ↑ Flotilla of the mine forces ( Memento from April 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Federal Archives)
  4. ↑ Marineschule Mürwik ( Memento from April 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Federal Archives)
  5. ^ Homepage of the historical society in Glücksburg
  6. ^ Edvard Munch House Warnemünde
  7. ↑ DNF Portal May 2001
personal data
SURNAME Brost, Wolfgang
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Brost, Wolfgang Horst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral of the Federal Navy
DATE OF BIRTH January 20, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 1, 2016
Place of death Flensburg