Klaus Reinhardt
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Klaus Reinhardt (15 January 1941–30 November 2021) was a German Army
Military career
Reinhardt was born in Berlin. In 1960, he entered the West German Army as an officer candidate with the mountain infantry forces. From 1963 on, he served as a platoon leader with the Gebirgsjägerbataillon 222 in Mittenwald and later continued as an operations officer from October 1966 to October 1967.
From 1967 to 1972, he studied history and political sciences at the
In October 1976, Reinhardt was promoted to
On 1 October 1988, he was promoted to brigadier general and the same day took over as Chief of Staff Section IV (Planning; NATO Forces, conception of the Federal Armed Forces, coordination of the budgetary means for the military and planning of armament) within the Armed Forces Staff of the German Ministry of Defence in Bonn.
In October 1990 he was appointed
In June 1993, he was promoted to
In April 1998, he was promoted to
Views
In 1993, as the commander of the III, Corps, Reinhardt was heavily criticised by high-ranking conservative politician Alfred Dregger for banning Bundeswehr soldiers from participating in a memorial service at a German war cemetery that also held the graves of fallen Waffen-SS soldiers on Volkstrauertag. Reinhardt argued that he meant no disrespect to the young soldiers that had died for Germany but found that the ideology of the Waffen-SS was incompatible with the values of democracy.[4]
References
- ^ "Commander JHQ Centre, Former Commander KFOR". Kosovo Force (KFOR). NATO. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ Trauer um General Klaus Reinhardt (in German)
- ^ "Klaus Reinhardt" (in German). The London Speaker Bureau Germany. Retrieved 26 April 2016.
- ^ "Dregger rügt General" [Dregger tells off General] (in German). Focus. 21 February 1994. Retrieved 22 September 2018.