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Commander

 Lieutenant General Jürgen-Joachim von Sandrart

The Corps Commander's primary mission is to prepare the Corps to carry out the full range of military operations throughout the area of responsibility and beyond.

Military career:

  • 2021 – Commander, Multinational Corps Northeast, Szczecin
  • 2018 - 2021 – Commander 1st Armoured Division
  • 2010 - 2017 – Head of Office of the Chief of Defence, FMoD / Berlin
  • 2016 - 2017 – Division chief (J7) and Deputy Chief of Staff, DEU SHAPE Detachment, Mons / Belgium
  • 2013 - 2016 – Commander, Armoured Infantry Brigade 41 / Torgelow
  • 2012 - 2013 – Chief of Branch SE II 1 (Afghanistan mission and Asia-Oceania), Directorate-General for Strategy and Operations, FMoD / Berlin
  • 2009 - 2012 – Division chief (G3) with 1st Armoured Division / Hanover
  • 2005 - 2009 – Assistant Chief of Military Policy Branch, Armed Forces Staff, FMoD / Berlin
  • 2003 - 2005 – Commander, Tank Demonstration Battalion 93 / Munster
  • 2001 - 2003 – Division chief (G3) and Chief of Staff of Armoured Infantry Brigade 7 / Hamburg
  • 1998 - 2001 – General staff officer (G6 Op) at HQ Eurocorps / Strasbourg
  • 1996 - 1998 – Student on National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College / Hamburg
  • 1993 - 1996 – Company commander with Tank Demonstration Battalion 93 / Munster
  • 1992 - 1993 – Company commander with Tank Battalion 84 / Lüneburg
  • 1988 - 1992 – Platoon leader and intelligence officer with Tank Demonstration Battalion 94 / Munster
  • 1984 - 1988 – Student of economics and organisation at Helmut Schmidt University / Hamburg
  • 1983 - 1984 – Officer training with Tank Battalion 183 / Boostedt
  • 1 August 1983 – Commencement of line officer career
  • 1 July 1982 – Conscript with Tank Battalion 84 / Lüneburg

Education:

  • 1984 - 1988 – Economics at Hamburg Armed Forces University (Wirtschafts und Organistionswissenschaften an der Bundeswehruniversitat Hamburg)

Decorations and medals:

  • 2011 – Bronze Bundeswehr Foreign Duty Medal (ISAF AFG)
  • 2011 – NATO Medal (ISAF AFG)
  • 2011 – Bundeswehr Combat Action Medal (ISAF AFG)
  • 2004 – Gold Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr
  • 2002 – NATO Medal (FORMER YUGOSLAVIA)
  • 1999 – Bronze Bundeswehr Foreign Duty Medal (SFOR)

Service in contingents and EU:

  • 2011 – ISAF: Senior Mentor of 209th ANA Corps / 25th German Contingent ISAF, Mazar-e-Sharif / Afghanistan
  • 2002 – EUFOR / SFOR: MA to COS, DEU Detachment, HQ MND South-West, Mostar / Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • 1999 – SFOR: CJ5, DEU Detachment, HQ SFOR, Sarajevo / Bosnia-Herzegovina

Promotions:

  • 2021 – Lieutenant General
  • 2018 – Major General
  • 2014 – Brigadier General 
  • 2009 – Colonel
  • 2001 – Lieutenant Colonel
  • 1998 – Major
  • 1992 – Captain
  • 1989 – Lieutenant
  • 1986 – Second Lieutenant

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Multinational Corps Northeast
Waleriana Łukasińskiego 33
71-215 Szczecin
Poland

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