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unusual facts about Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr



1976 German Grand Prix

Lauda had suffered serious burns and was rushed by helicopter to the Bundeswehr hospital in Koblenz; from there he was flown to the Trauma Clinic in Ludwigshafen, home to Germany's most advanced burn ward at the time, where he fought for his life for the next few days.

Adjutant Corps

After the war, the necessity of the corps was understood and the Chief of Staff of the time, Mordechai Gur, in a meeting with senior officers from the Manpower Directorate (now Human Resources Directorate), decided on its creation.

Babett Peter

In October 2007, she became a member of the sports support group of the German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr).

Barry Swanson

He took the office of Chief of Staff on May 1, 2010 following the retirement of Commissioner Robin Dunster.

Battle of Quatre Bras

At the Dutch headquarters at Genappe (about five kilometres (3 miles) from Quatre Bras), Major-General Jean Victor de Constant Rebecque, chief of staff to the Prince of Orange, realising the danger ordered Lieutenant-General Hendrik George de Perponcher Sedlnitsky, the commander of the 2nd Dutch Division, to dispatch his 2nd Brigade (Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach) to occupy Quatre Bras.

Christine Wallace

She is married to former Chief of staff to Kim Beazley, Michael Costello AO.

Claus-Peter Bach

Bach came under criticism when he promised four German rugby players, Raphael Pyrasch, Mustafa Güngör, Fabian Heimpel and Bastian Himmer, that they could join the Sportkompanie of the Bundeswehr, a special sports unit within the German Army.

Dadala Raphael Ramanayya

In 1936 Monsieur André Ménard (who later came back to India on July 31, 1950 as Governor of French settlements in India), then chef de cabinet and Secretary to the Governor's establishment went into Bharati Mills to negotiate a settlement with the workers who were on strike and was instead taken by them as a hostage for fulling their demands.

Dammersfeldkuppe

However a tradition that was started by the US Forces and continued by the Bundeswehr after the Americans pulled out of Wildflecken in 1994, is the annual summer walk or Volksmarsch through the out-of-bounds area.

DB Class 210

However, the Deutsche Bahn decided that the successor to this locomotive should have a more powerful gas turbine and the AVCO Lycoming T 53-L13 was selected which had already been selected for use in the Bundeswehr Helicopter Bell UH-1 D.

Edward Heaton-Ellis

In November 1916, Heaton-Ellis was appointed chief of staff to Rear-Admiral Sir William Pakenham, commanding the Battlecruiser Squadron, in HMS Lion.

Emergency management

& The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr), the German Federal Police and the 16 state police forces (Länderpolizei) all have been deployed for disaster relief operations.

Ernesto Geisel

Having the aforesaid activities been stopped, Geisel and his Chief of Staff, Minister Golbery do Couto e Silva devised a plan of gradual, slow democratization that would succeed, in spite of all attempts and threats of the opposition offered by radical sectors of the military hierarchy and some terrorist movements the leftists would still try against the government.

Feldjäger

The dogs are first trained to be patrol dogs and then as sniffer dogs at the Bundeswehr MWD school in Koblenz.

Feldwebel

In the Deutsche Marine (German Navy, as part of the Bundeswehr), the equivalent to Feldwebel is the rank of Bootsmann ("boatswain").

Georg von Boeselager

The Bundeswehr's Freiherr von Boeselager Kaserne ("Baron von Boeselager Barracks") in Munster is named for him, as are Georg-von-Boeselager-Straße ("George von Boeselager Street") and Georg-von-Boeselager-Schule ("George von Boeselager Secundary School") in Swisttal.

German Tank Museum

From the post-war era there is a range of Bundeswehr prototypes, including a Leopard 1, Kanonenjagdpanzer tank destroyer and MBT-70, the abortive US-German design.

Germany–Montenegro relations

In 1997 the German Bundeswehr used the Podgorica Airport for the Operation Libelle, which led to the first skirmish of German forces since World War II.

Hans Christian Korting

Korting graduated with an M.D. from the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in 1977, and subsequently was trained in medical microbiology at central medical services units of the German Army (Bundeswehr) until 1979.

Hans-Joachim Dönitz

He then served as Chief of Staff and navigator in the anti-submarine division in the 4th Flotilla, based at Warnemünde.

Ike: Countdown to D-Day

Concentrating on decisions actually made by Eisenhower and the pressures brought to bear on him personally, it includes his personal relationship with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (Ian Mune) and his own Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Walter Bedell Smith, US Army (Timothy Bottoms).

Iqbal Riza

He served as the Chef de Cabinet (Chief of Staff) to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan from his appointment at the beginning of Annan's term in January 1997 until his retirement January 15, 2005.

Iraqi aluminum tubes

A substantial part of the story was based on deliberate leaking of classified information to the Times reporters by Scooter Libby, the chief of staff of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Islamic Courts Union

On January 10, a report by Somali presidential chief of staff, Abdirizak Hassan stated the US airstrikes had killed Al Qaeda member Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, and leaders of the Islamic Courts Union including Abduallahi Moalim Ali (former chief of security for Mogadishu), Abdirahman Janaqow, and a third unidentified person.

Ivor Bell

Ivor Malachy Bell is an Irish republican, and a former volunteer in the Belfast Brigade of the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) who later became Chief of Staff on the Army Council.

Jacques Lanxade

He was a private chief of staff of François Mitterrand, President of the French Republic, from 1989 to 1991, and became chief of defense of the French Armed Forces from 1991 to 1995.

Johannes Poeppel

He became Staff Officer to the Generalinspekteure Friedrich Foertsch and Heinrich Trettner and commanded the Feldartilleriebataillon 31 in Lüneburg.

John Gordon Fowler

When World War II began, he became an assistant chief of staff for the Anti-Submarine Command in New York City where he also became deputy chief of staff for the First Air Force at Mitchel Field, New York in October 1943.

October 22nd Scud missile attack

This fear was raised by military intelligence chief Eli Zeira at a situation assessment with the Chief of Staff on October 9.

Palácio do Planalto

Besides the President, a few high advisers also have offices in the Planalto, including the Vice President and the Chief of Staff; the other ministries are laid along the Ministries Esplanade.

The fourth floor contains a large lounge area and the offices of senior government officials, including the Chief of Staff and the Chief of the Institutional Security Cabinet.

Rainer Feist

He commanded the 2nd Fast Attack Craft Squadron based in Olpenitz between 1987 and 1990 and was instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, which was followed by a service run at the Armed Forces Staff, Federal Ministry of Defence in Bonn as Branch Chief "Politico-Military Affairs".

Robert Schwarz Strauss

Many of the president's supporters believed that the aggressive management style of his Chief of Staff Donald Regan was making matters worse, but the President remained loyal to Regan and would not consider replacing him.

Sarwar Jahan Nizam

Vice Admiral Sarwar Jahan Nizam, ndu, psc, BN (born 1952) is the first ever Vice-Admiral and Ex-Chief of Staff for the Bangladesh Navy.

Shahid Iqbal

Vice-Admiral Shahid Iqbal, Born: 15 July 1953, HI(M), SI, is a retired 3-star rank naval officer and the former Chief of Staff (COS) of Pakistan Navy who served as the former Commander of Combined Task Force 150.

Sri Lanka Armoured Corps

Major General Y. Balaretnarajah, VSV, USP,ndc, SLAC- Former Chief of Staff of the Army, Commandant Sri Lanka Army Volunteer Force, GOC, 1 Division and Commander, Security Forces, Jaffna.

Stepan Kucherov

After joining the Soviet Navy in 1922, he advanced through the ranks and held various commands, including Chief of Staff of the Northern Fleet (August 1940), Commander of the White Sea Flotilla (February 1943), and Deputy Chief of Staff of the Soviet Navy (1944–45).

Stetten am kalten Markt

Stetten is a large German Federal Armed Forces location; approximately 2,200 soldiers are stationed in the area, attached to the Heuberg troop exercise area.

Takaji Wachi

Wachi engaged in efforts to negotiate with the Chinese to end the war and tried to communicate with General He Yingqin the National Revolutionary Army Chief of Staff, via a Chinese agent in 1938, but these efforts failed.

University of the German Federal Armed Forces

The German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) run two universities—one in Munich, (Bundeswehr University Munich) and another in Hamburg (Helmut Schmidt University)—which focus on the scientific work and the academic study of the German armed forces' officers.

Volker Wieker

Volker Wieker (born 1 March 1954 in Delmenhorst, Lower Saxony) is the Chief of Staff (Generalinspekteur) of the Bundeswehr, the German armed forces.

Wieker was born in Delmenhorst and joined the Bundeswehr in 1974 for officer training in the army's artillery branch.

Wachbataillon

In addition the Wachbataillon executes the Großer Zapfenstreich on special occasions (for example on the 50th anniversary of the Bundeswehr in front of the Reichstag in Berlin on the night of October 26, 2005) or takes part in (inter)national events like the ceremonial oath of the Bundeswehr ceremony, parades, military tattoos and shows with its drill team which is the best trained special unit of the battalion.

It consists of nine companies (see list below) and belongs to the Streitkräftebasis (Joint Service Support Command) of the Bundeswehr.

Wullenweber

Today, the Strategic Reconnaissance Command of the German Armed Forces operates a wullenweber array in Bramstedtlund with a diameter of 410m as one of its three stationary Sigint battalions.

Yorckscher Marsch

It is the traditional March of the Wachbataillon, the German Bundeswehr's elite drill unit, it is also played at the first march at the Grand Tattoo and it was the traditional March of the East German armed forces.


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