Wolfgang Gäbelein

Wolfgang Gäbelein (* 1960 in Weiden / Upper Palatinate ) is a major general in the air force of the Bundeswehr and the head of the Bundeswehr Planning Office .

Military career

Training and first uses

Gäbelein joined the German Armed Forces in 1979 and completed his training as an Air Force officer in the 6th inspection of the Air Force Officer's School in Fürstenfeldbruck by 1980 . From 1980 to 1983, he completed a study of aerospace engineering at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich . From 1983 to 1986 he was employed as Head of Staff Area 3 Operations, Organization in Air Force Shipyard 23 in Diepholz . From 1988 to 1991 he was the squadron chief of the maintenance squadron in the helicopter transport squadron 64 in Ahlhorn . From 1991 to 1993 he took part in the 36th General Staff Course (Air Force) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg .

Service as a staff officer

The first assignment as a staff officer led Gäbelein in 1993 as department head A4 logistics to the 5th Air Force Division in Strausberg (Eggersdorf) . After reclassification, he occupied the same post in the 3rd Air Force Division in Gatow until 1995 . From 1995 to 1997 he was employed as a group leader for S 3 I operations, organization and training in the Air Force Materials Office in Cologne . From 1997 to 1999 he was employed as a speaker V 1 / Fü L II 3 / Fü L II 1 Principle of Structure and Operation of the Air Force Logistic System in the Air Force Command in Bonn . In 1999 he was briefly employed as a controlling officer at the Chief of Staff in the Air Force Command, Major General Hans-Günter Schröfel. In the same year he became Air Force Adjutant to the General Inspector of the Bundeswehr of Generals Hans-Peter von Kirchbach and later Harald Kujat . From 2001 to 2003 he was in command of the technical group of Fighter Bomber Wing 32 in Lechfeld . From 2003 to 2004 he was employed as a department head G3 deployment, organization, training in the Defense Division IV Southern Germany in Munich . This was followed by a transfer to Potsdam , where Gäbelein was deployed from 2004 to 2005 as Head of J4 Logistics, Accommodation in Action, Protection Tasks, from 2005 to 2006 as Head of Support, and from 2006 to 2008 as Deputy Chief of Staff in the Bundeswehr Operations Command . From 2008 to 2012 he was Head of Section Fü S VI 1 Controlling Bundeswehr Planning, main process responsibility for Bundeswehr planning, Federal Audit Office matters in the management staff of the armed forces in Bonn. This was followed by a ministerial assignment from 2012 to 2013 as Head of Division Plg III 2 Planning Specifications , Controlling in the Planning Department in the Planning Department at the Federal Ministry of Defense , based in Bonn.

Service as a general

In 2013, Gäbelein became deputy commander in the logistics command of the Bundeswehr in Erfurt . Associated with this was the promotion to brigadier general. A year later, he handed over this post to Colonel Gerald Funke and moved back to the Ministry of Defense in Bonn, where he was appointed Head of the Planning I Future Development of the Bundeswehr . From 2015 to January 2019, he was deployed as Sub-Department Leader Armed Forces (FüSK) II support tasks in the ministry (also based in Bonn), he handed this post to Brigadier General Stefan Lüth . After several months of preparation for subsequent use in the planning office of the Bundeswehr, etc. a. at BwConsulting , he took up his current post as Head of the Planning Office of the Bundeswehr in Berlin on June 28, 2019, as the successor to Rear Admiral Thomas Jugel , which was also accompanied by the promotion to Major General.

Assignments abroad

07/95 to 09/95 Deputy Head of A4 Logistics , Command Post , Einsatzgeschwader 1 , Vicenza , Italy
10/12 to 02/13 Deputy Chief of Staff Support Regional Command North and Deputy Commander 29./30. German contingent ISAF , Mazar-e Sharif , Afghanistan

Web links

Military vita

Individual evidence

↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - July 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff at the BMVg, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .
↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - January 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff in the BMVg, January 15, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .
↑ Change of leadership in the planning office of the Bundeswehr. In: https://www.planungsamt.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff at the BMVg, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Gäbelein, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German soldier
DATE OF BIRTH	1960
PLACE OF BIRTH	Willows in the Upper Palatinate

[1] Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - July 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff at the BMVg, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .

[2] Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - January 2019. In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff in the BMVg, January 15, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .

[3] Change of leadership in the planning office of the Bundeswehr. In: https://www.planungsamt.bundeswehr.de . Press and information staff at the BMVg, July 2, 2019, accessed on July 2, 2019 .