Richard Rossmanith

Richard Johann Roßmanith ( born March 16, 1955 in Monheim, County Donauwörth ) is a Lieutenant General of the Army of the Bundeswehr and since December 18, 2012 Commander of the command Operations Command or since 1 July 2013 Commander of the successor command Multinational Forces Operations Command in Ulm.

Military career

Training and first uses

Roßmanith took effect in July 1973 in the Bundeswehr at the Infantry Battalion 561 in Munich. From 1974 to 1977 he studied electrical engineering at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich. After that, he was employed until 1981 as a platoon leader in the Infantry Battalion 112 and up to 1985 as a company commander in the Infantry Battalion 112 in the rain.

Service as a staff officer

From 1985-87 Roßmanith participated in Hamburg on 28 general staff course at the Staff College. After that, he was head of department at the German Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Brussels. There followed a use as G3 staff officer in the Armoured Brigade 6 in Hofgeismar. From 1990-91 he was chief of staff of the 4th Motorized Rifle Division of the former NVA in Erfurt. By 1993 Roßmanith Branch Chief at the NATO HQ BALTAP in Karup, Denmark, and then officer in the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces was in Bonn. In 1995 he became commander of the Panzer Grenadier Battalion 212 in August the village. 1997 was followed by a staff use as G3 in the merged Military District Command III / 7 Panzer Division in Dusseldorf and from 1999 as head of the working group in the development of the Army Staff in Bonn. From 2000 to 2003 he was employed in the Defence Ministry as a workspace manager in planning staff.

Service in the rank of general

The next use of troops, he took over command of the Panzerlehrbrigade 9 in Munster and was then again in the Planning Staff of the Federal Ministry of Defence, this time as its deputy head, are used. Roßmanith was from 2006 to 2009 Chairman of the Deployable Forces Coordination Group SHAPE in Mons, Belgium before 2009 Chief of Staff of the Deployable Joint Staff Element Allied Force Command Heidelberg, Heidelberg short FC (country ) in Heidelberg in November. On 18 December 2012, he was, with simultaneous promotion to lieutenant-general, appointed commander of the command Operations Command.

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Medals and Decorations

His medals and decorations include, inter alia: the Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in Gold, the use Medal NATO, the use Medal of the Bundeswehr SFOR, the use Medal of the Bundeswehr KFOR, the use medal Bundeswehr ISAF, the U.S. Meritorious Service Medal, and use medals from France and Italy.

Private

Roßmanith is married and has two daughters.