Achim Lidsba

Achim Lidsba ( born March 4, 1955 in Breinum ) is a Major General of the Army and the Bundeswehr since July 14, 2011 Commander of the Staff College in Hamburg.

Military career

Training and first uses

After graduating from the Roswitha Gymnasium in Bad Gandersheim Lidsba occurred in 1973 in the service of the Bundeswehr. By 1977, he graduated from the Panzergrenadier force officer training and was promoted to lieutenant. From 1977 to 1981 he was first as a platoon commander and then as an intelligence officer (S2 ) in the Infantry Battalion 341 (later 62) used in Wolf Hagen. During this time he received a promotion to lieutenant.

From 1981 to 1985 Lidsba was used in the Infantry Battalion 52 in Rotenburg an der Fulda twice as company commander and received the promotion to captain during these uses.

Service as a staff officer

From 1985 to 1987 Lidsba graduated from the national general staff course at the Staff College in Hamburg and was thereafter promoted to Major. Subsequently, he was from 1987 to 1989 Deputy Head of the Military intelligence (G2 ) on the staff of I Corps in Münster under the command of Lieutenant Generals Dieter Clauss and Jörn Söder.

There followed a foreign assignment in Brussels, where Lidsba 1989 to 1992 as a consultant for military policy in the staff of the German military representative to the NATO Military Committee, Lieutenant General Rolf Hüttel served. As Hüttel was added in 1992 in the Federal Ministry of Defence in Bonn, there to take up the post of the chief of the planning staff, he took Lidsba with as speakers. After Hüttel was replaced four months later, Lidsba served until 1994 as a speaker under Hüttels successor, Vice Admiral Ulrich Weisser.

From 1994 to 1996, Lieutenant Colonel Lidsba the Infantry Battalion 323 in Schwanewede. In 1994 he returned to Hamburg, to serve at the Command and Staff College and 1996 as a tutor and lecturer in troop leadership in the General Staff Course of the Army. In 1998 he was transferred to Koblenz and served at the local Army Forces Command to 2000 as a group leader use (G3 ) under the command of Lieutenant-General Rüdiger Drews. In this role he was also in international missions in Kosovo.

In 2000 Lidsba changed again in the Federal Ministry of Defence to Berlin, where he remained until 2005 as Head of Unit in the military staff department of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces ( FüS III ) under the Chief of Staff, Major General Egon Ramm and Rear Admiral Wolfram Kühn, used. Here he was responsible among other things for the military and political preparation and support of armed deployments of the Bundeswehr, Cabinet decisions and referrals to the German Bundestag as well as coordination with NATO, EU, United Nations and partners.

Service in the rank of general

Under appointment to brigadier general Lidsba 2005 by Wolfgang Brüschke took over in Neustadt command of the 14 Armoured Brigade, which he led until 12 July 2007. He gave this command to Colonel Theodor Herkel, who commanded the brigade only as a brigade leader and their resolution initiated. While this use Lidsba was again deployed abroad, this time from November 2005 to April 2006 as commander of the 9th German mission contingent in Afghanistan within the ISAF.

From 2007 to 2010 Lidsba was used again in Brussels at the NATO Military Committee and served as Deputy Staff Director and Chief of Staff of the German Military Representative, Vice Admiral Frank Roper and Lieutenant General Jürgen Bornemann.

To June 21, 2010 Lidsba finally took over in Leipzig by Major General Reinhard Kammerer command of the 13th Panzer Grenadier Division. The then German Defence Minister Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg carried Achim Lidsba on June 30, 2010 in Berlin to major general.

Since July 14, 2011 Lidsba is commander of the Staff College in Hamburg.

Private

Lidsba is married and has three sons. One of his sons, Christian, is the guitarist of the band Stanfour.

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