Günter Weiler
Günter Friedrich Weiler ( * April 27, 1951 in Duisburg) is a Lieutenant General of the Army of the Bundeswehr retired. In its last use it was on 16 September 2010 to 9 April 2013, the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr.
Military career
Training and first uses
Weiler came in 1969 when Tank Battalion 44 in Arolsen in the service of the Bundeswehr. In the Land Forces, he trained as a tank officer and was used from 1974 as a platoon commander of an armored train and then as an intelligence officer (S2). In 1976, Captain Weiler the post of company commander of the 2nd company of Panzer Battalion 54 (later 64) Wolf Hagen.
Service as a staff officer
From 1982 to 1984 Weiler completed the General Staff Course at the Staff College in Hamburg. Subsequently, he was promoted to Major and transferred to Münster, where he served under the command of Lieutenant-General Gerhard Wachter as a general staff officer for practice editing on the staff of I Corps. Just one year later hamlet was again added and served from 1985 to 1987 as a staff officer for operations and training, and Chief of Staff ( G3) of the Panzergrenadier Brigade 30 in Ellwangen under the command of Colonel Klaus Naumann and Conrad Bader.
1987 Lieutenant Colonel hamlet was transferred to the Bonn Federal Ministry of Defense, where he served until 1989 as a consultant for military policy planning staff of the Federal Ministry of Defence under the leadership of Secretary Hans Rühle. He then took over in Boostedt command of the tank battalion 184 and this led until 1991. According to this command troops hamlet was transferred to the Hamburg Führungsadademie and served as a lecturer for troop leadership and tutor of the General Staff course.
1992 Weiler returned back to the Bonn Defence Ministry and served there from 1992 to 1994 as Press Officer to the Inspector of the Army, at that time Lieutenant-General Helge Hansen. In 1994, Colonel Weiler served first as deputy adjutant and then to 1997 as adjutant of the Federal Minister of Defense Volker Ruhe ( CDU).
Service in the rank of general
On 5 September 1997 the hamlet took over in Erfurt by Wolfgang Schneiderhan command of the 39 Armoured Brigade, and led it until its dissolution on 30 September 2001. During this use, he graduated in 1998 as part of SFOR an overseas deployment in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Here he served as commander of the Multinational Brigade Centre in Rajlovac. As commander of the armored brigade 39, he was appointed brigadier general in 1999.
In 2001, the hamlet was transferred to Berlin and served there until 2005 as the first deputy head of the Policy Planning Staff under the leadership of Lieutenant General Wolfgang Schneiderhan and Franz HU Borkenhagen. March 1, 2005 Weiler took over in Neubrandenburg under appointment to major general of Christian Trull command of the 14th Panzer Grenadier Division. This command he led for a year and gave it in April 2006 Bruno Kasdorf from.
Due to the dismissal of the Deputy Inspector of the Army, Jürgen Ruwe, in January 2006, took over the hamlet under appointment to lieutenant general on 1 March 2006 this post. After four years, he gave up this post in the fall of 2010, Bruno Kasdorf.
Hamlet himself took on 16 September 2010 by Lieutenant-General Johann -Georg Dora the post of Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr.
Private
Weiler is married and has two sons.