Carsten Jacobson

Carsten Jacobson ( born June 22, 1955 in Hamburg ) is a Major General of the Army of the Bundeswehr and since July 2011 ISAF spokesman in Afghanistan. He's since 1 June 2012, commander of the 1st Armoured Division in Hannover.

Military career

Training and first uses

Jacobson joined the 1974 Tank Battalion 123 in Kummersbruck in the service of the Armed Forces and was trained there as a tank officer. In 1976 he was promoted to lieutenant in 1979 and lieutenant. From 1976 to 1986 followed uses as a tank platoon leader and troop telecommunications officer in the armored battalions of 174 in Hamburg and 203 in Hemer and from 1982, the same year promoted to captain, a company commander in the Panzer Battalion 333 in Celle.

Service as a staff officer

From 1986 to 1988 Jacobson completed the General Staff Course at the Staff College in Hamburg, he graduated as a course Bester. For this he was awarded the General Heusinger price. In 1989, the promotion to major was. From 1989 to 1990 he served as operations officer (G3 ) on the staff of I Corps in Münster under the command of Lieutenant General Jörn Söder. This was followed from 1990 to 1992 a course at the Staff College in Camberley UK at, after which he received a promotion to lieutenant colonel.

Back in Germany took over Jacobson 1992 to 1993 the post of operation officer (G3 ) on the staff of Panzer Brigade 36 in Bad Mergentheim under the command of Colonel Gert Gudera. After this command troops he was transferred to the Bonn Ministry of Defense and served from 1993 to 1995 as a staff officer with the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, first under Lieutenant-General Jürgen Quick and finally under Vice Admiral Hans Frank.

From 1995 to 1997 he was again a military command as commander of Panzer Battalion 33 in Neustadt am Ruebenberge. From 1997 to 1998 Jacobson graduated from an overseas deployment as part of SFOR, where he served as Military Assistant to the Chief of Staff of the SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Back in Germany he took over in Ulm the post of head of department operations ( G3) on the staff of II Corps under the command of Lieutenant General Goetz Gliemeroth. In this use, he received in 1999 was promoted to colonel. In 2001, Jacobson was eventually transferred to Washington, DC, where he served until 2005 as a military attaché at the German Embassy.

Service in the rank of general

After returning from the United States Jacobson took over on 25 February 2005 in command of the Panzerlehrbrigade 9 in Munster and led it until 2007, where he was appointed in 2006 to brigadier general. On 18 July 2007 he handed over the command to Colonel William Green, and was subsequently transferred to Mönchengladbach, where until 2009 as the senior German officer and Commander Rear Support Command in the headquarters of the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps ( ARRC ) under British Lieutenant - General Richard he Shirreff served.

On 14 August 2009 Jacobson took over in Koblenz, the use of Manfred Hofmann and served since then as Chief of Staff of the Army Forces Command under Lieutenant General Carl- Hubertus von Butler. From July 2011 to June 2012, he held the function of the ISAF spokesman in Afghanistan. Since his return to Germany he is division commander of the 1st Armored Division.

Awards

Jacobson's awards include the Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr in Bronze (1983 ), silver (1989 ) and gold ( 1994), the use Medal of the Bundeswehr in Bronze SFOR (1998 ), NATO Medal for use in the former Yugoslavia (1998) and the U.S. Order of Legion of Merit ( 2005).

Private

Jacobson is since 1979 married to Sally Jane, nee McBride. The couple has two sons. Carsten Jacobson is a Rotarian and a member of the German - British officer association.