Klaus Reinhardt
Klaus Reinhardt ( born January 15, 1941 in Berlin ) is a German retired general of the Army of the Bundeswehr.
He was Commander of the Army Forces Command, the NATO Joint Headquarters Command Center and the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo.
Military career
1960 Reinhardt committed as an officer cadet in the Mountain Infantry. In 1963 he was platoon leader in the Mountaineer Battalion 222 in Mittenwald and served from October 1966 until October 1967 as operations officer ( S-3) on the staff of the battalion.
From 1967 to 1972 he studied history and political science at the University of Freiburg. After finishing his PhD. in February 1972 on the failure of Hitler's strategy in the Battle of Moscow, he was promoted to captain in 1968 already used as a company commander in Gebirgsjägerbatallion 221 in Mittenwald. In the years 1973 to 1975, he graduated as a Major at the Staff College in Hamburg, the training of officers in the General Staff in the 16th year. This idea was 1975, a U.S. Generalstabssausbildung at the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth on.
In October 1976, Reinhardt was promoted to lieutenant colonel and served as a staff officer for operations (G-3 ) of the Central Army Group ( CENTAG ) NATO in Heidelberg. From January 1978 to October 1980 he served as adjutant of the Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr, General Jürgen Brandt, employed in the Ministry of Defence in Bonn. He then took over until October 1982, the command of the Mountaineer Battalion 231 in Bad Reichenhall. From October 1982 to 1983, he then served as operations officer ( G-3) on the staff of the 1st Mountain Division in Garmisch -Partenkirchen. After his promotion to Colonel Reinhardt served from 1983 to 1986 as an aide of the then Federal Minister of Defence Manfred Wörner and then took over from 1 October 1986 to 30 September 1988 the command of the Mountaineer Brigade 23 in Bad Reichenhall.
On 1 October 1988 he was appointed Brigadier General and took over the command staff of the armed forces in Bonn until 1990 the post of Staff Department Head of Planning ( FüS IV; NATO forces, the Bundeswehr Concept, budget coordination of the Armed Forces and Arms Management). In this position he was responsible among other things for the merger of the German Armed Forces and the former National People's Army.
In October 1990, the appointment to major general and appointment as commander of the Staff College in Hamburg followed. During this period, Reinhardt was also Vice President of the Clausewitz Society and a member of the Advisory Board of the Military History Research Office ( MGFA ) in Freiburg im Breisgau. As commander of the Staff College, he transformed them into a strategic- operational think tank and opened it for the states of the former Soviet bloc, for which he gives an honorary doctorate from the University of Budapest.
In June 1993 the appointment to lieutenant general and the command takeover of III followed. Corps in Koblenz, which was also released by him. As of April 1994, he also built in Koblenz as the new commander of Army Forces Command on and made it the hub for the foreign missions of the Bundeswehr. A task that should perceive the Operational Command of the German Armed Forces later. As the Commander of the Army Forces Command, he led the German foreign missions in Somalia, in Croatia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina under the under NATO command multilateral peacekeeping force IFOR and SFOR.
On April 28, 1998, he was eventually promoted to General and took over a day later, by 2001 the NATO post of Commander Joint Headquarters Centre, the former Headquarters Allied Land Forces Central Europe ( LANDCENT ) and today's Allied Land Component Command - Headquarters Heidelberg of the Allied joint Force Command Brunssum in Heidelberg. In this role he was involved in the structural reform of NATO, the support of peacekeeping missions as another object of the Alliance, in addition to deterring potential aggressors, foresaw. During this period, Reinhardt was also, of 8 October 1999 until 18 April 2000 Commander of the KFOR peacekeeping force in Kosovo in Pristina and thus commanded 50,000 soldiers from 39 nations. After returning from the mission in Kosovo, he integrated the Polish, Czech and Hungarian Land Forces in the NATO structures. In 2000 he was honored by Federal President Johannes Rau with the Federal Cross of Merit.
On 21 March 2001 Reinhardt gave the command in Heidelberg Lieutenant General Goetz Gliemeroth and retired on April 1, 2001. He was until its replacement by Klaus Olshausen August 2002 to 12 August 2006, President of the Clausewitz Society, his predecessor Klaus Naumann.
Civilian careers
After the end of his military career Reinhardt was to succeed Karl Heinz Bauer Chairman of the German company Bauer AG, Schrobenhausen, which is active in civil engineering and mechanical engineering. He was also from 30 September 2003 until the summer of 2005, the Supervisory Board of OWR, a producer of NBC protection and decontamination facilities. At this time, Klaus Naumann was there already Chairman of the Board. OWR strives currently a 100 - million-euro contract to build the " troops detoxification Course ( TEP) 90 ".
Early 2006 were reported by various media, Reinhardt allegedly these activities do not appear in companies in the field of armaments and thus violated § 20a soldiers law. The accusation was disproved by an examination of the Federal Ministry of Defence.
Reinhardt is a freelance journalist and is the author of several books. He also teaches at two universities Political Science and Modern History. In summer 2007 he was in the ranks ZDF Expedition - to see the empire and ROM as commentating historian on the screen.
Private life
Reinhardt was born as the son of the Nazi Party politician Fritz Reinhardt and spent his childhood and youth in Garmisch -Partenkirchen and Mittenwald. He now lives in Starnberg, is married and has two adult sons. His hobbies include skiing, mountaineering, jazz, classical music and literature.
Writings (selection )
- The turn before Moscow. The failure of Hitler's strategy in winter 1941.42 ( = contributions to the military and war history, Volume 13 ). German publishing house, Stuttgart 1972, ISBN 3-421-01606-6 (false ).
- General staff training in the Bundeswehr. For the design and development of the Staff College ( = Supplements to defend Scientific Rundschau, No. 20). Mittler, Herford et al 1977, ISBN 3-87547-175- X.
- KFOR. Forces for peace. Diary of a German commander in Kosovo. 2nd edition, Blazek & Bergmann, Frankfurt am Main 2002, ISBN 3-9806536-9-2.