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Volker Wieker

Upon his return to Germany, he was assigned as the operations officer of an armored brigade in Augustdorf.

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.

He studied Geodesy at the Bundeswehr University of Munich and served as an officer in an armored artillery battalion in Wildeshausen.

He passed his General Staff training at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr (Hamburg) in 1989, followed by the US Army's Command and General Staff Officer Course at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.



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