MNCNE - Commander

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