• Mürwik, and later Docent for military history at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr at Hamburg. From 1980 to 1997, he served at the German Armed Forces Military...
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    Vessels of this class do not have an executive officer (German: Erster Offizier). Traditionally, in the German Navy, this was used as a rule to classify...
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  • Brigadegeneral in the Bundeswehr or to Admiralarzt/Generalarzt, Admiralapotheker/Generalapotheker in the Zentraler Sanitätsdienst der Bundeswehr. Its rank insignia...
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    base during World War II as an "officer for military spiritual guidance" (Offizier für wehrgeistige Führung). Since 1997 the school has been twinned with...
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  • transl. Naval (officer) cadet, lit. 'sea cadet') is a military rank of the Bundeswehr and of former German-speaking naval forces. The legal basis for the German...
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  • Day X plot (category Bundeswehr)
    the Kommando Spezialkräfte (KSK; "Special Forces Command") of Germany's Bundeswehr to assassinate several left-leaning politicians including Dietmar Bartsch...
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    Germany's rearmament many years before the official foundation of the Bundeswehr, the German army, in 1955. In 1950, Foertsch was the leading member of...
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  • specialist career" (de: Fachdienstlaufbahn or Fachdienstoffizier, officially: Offizier des militärfachlichen Dienstes). Its rank insignia, worn on the sleeves...
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  • 8. Militär-Wochenblatt Nr. 52 105 (25 June 1921), col. 1141; Deutscher Offizier Bund (ed.), Ehren-Rangliste des ehemaligen Deutschen Heeres auf Grund der...
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    Federal Agency for Employment. In addition, in 2010, he chaired the ad-hoc Bundeswehr Structural Commission. From 2015, Weise also headed the Federal Office...
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    Patrick Sensburg (category Bundeswehr)
    Since 2019 Sensburg is president of the Reservist Association of Deutsche Bundeswehr. Sensburg was born in Paderborn. He studied law and political science...
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    collar patches are still worn today by general officers of the present-day Bundeswehr. In the Wehrmacht Heer, upon retirement, certain senior German generals...
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  • of command of the World War I Deutsches Heer. Offizier im Generalstab – General Staff officer Offizier-Lager (Oflag) – "officer camp"; German prisoner-of-war...
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    Imperial German Army (de: deutsches Heer). In the Reichswehr, Wehrmacht, and Bundeswehr there was never a rank Unterleutnant. Depending on the former Soviet military...
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    (OR5 to OR9) and officers of the military functional service (German: Offizier(e) militärfachlischer Dienst, OF1 and OF2) with several years of special...
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  • fellow of the Center for Military History and Social Sciences of the Bundeswehr. Vogel submitted his doctoral dissertation on Medieval History in 1994...
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    from severe frostbite on the Eastern Front in early 1943, he served as an Offizier für wehrgeistige Führung, responsible for the education of the troops,...
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  • 1989, p. 293. Brighton 2009, p. 250. Augstein, Franziska (17 May 2010). "Offizier mit Leib und Ledermantel". Süddeutsche Zeitung. Archived from the original...
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    'Claus Graf Stauffenberg. 15. November 1907–20. Juli 1944. Das Leben eines Offiziers. by Joachim Kramarz, Bonn 1967' by : F. L. Carsten International Affairs...
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  • timeframe of 8–31 July 1942 he served as an officer for special assignments (Offizier zur besonderen Verwendung) of the RLM and Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe...
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    blade, a corkscrew, and wood fibre grips, under the name of Schweizer Offiziers- und Sportmesser ("Swiss officer's and sports knife"). While the Swiss...
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    have official evidence in the Federal Archives, but are members of the Bundeswehr and claimed to be Knight's Cross recipients. This claim in some cases...
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    Rundschau". Archived from the original on 2016-01-12. Retrieved 2016-07-16. "Offizier unter Terrorverdacht: Ermittlern liegen schriftliche Anschlagspläne von...
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    Heuberg Training Area (category Bundeswehr training areas)
    The Truppenübungsplatz Heuberg is a training ground of the Bundeswehr in the districts of Sigmaringen and Zollernalbkreis in Baden-Württemberg. Since the...
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    von (ed.). Türkei, Weimar, Hitler. Lebenserinnerungen eines preußischen Offiziers und deutschnationalen Politikers [Turkey, Weimar, Hitler. Memoirs of a...
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