Curriculum Vitae Major General Oliver Kohl

Major General and Commandant

Date of Birth:                6 June 1964
Place of Birth:               Hattingen

Military Career

since May 2018    
Commandant, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

2016 – 2018    
Commander, Armoured Infantry Brigade 41, Neubrandenburg

2013 – 2015    
Chief of Branch II 5, Directorate-General for Forces Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence

2012 – 2013    
Head of Organizing Staff / Chief of Staff, Army Training Command, Leipzig

2009 – 2012    
Commander, Artillery Regiment 100, Mühlhausen

2007 – 2009    
Personnel Manager for Army general staff officers, Bundeswehr Personnel Office, Cologne

2006 – 2007    
Chief of the Personnel Policy Branch, Bundeswehr Personnel Office, Cologne

2004 – 2006    
Commander, Armoured Artillery Demonstration Battalion 325, Schwanewede/Munster

2003 – 2004    
Desk officer, Army Staff III 2, Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn

2001 – 2003    
G3 Operations/Plans, Bundeswehr Joint Forces Operations Command, Potsdam

1999 – 2001    
General staff officer training (42nd National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course (Army)), Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

1997 -–1999    
Aide-de-camp to the Commander, 7th Armoured Division, Düsseldorf

1992 – 1997    
Platoon leader, Battery Commander with 3rd Battery, Armoured Artillery Battalion 215, Augustdorf

1989 – 1992    
Education studies, Bundeswehr University, Hamburg

1984    
Entry into the Bundeswehr, Armoured Artillery Battalion 195, Münster; subsequent officer training

Mission Experience

2011    
Commander, PRTProvincial Reconstruction Team Fayzabad with ISAFInternational Security Assistance Force

1998    
ADC COSChief of Staff HQHeadquarters SFORStabilisation Force