Curriculum Vitae Colonel Thorsten Ilg

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Colonel and Director Training & Education

Date of Birth:    2 October 1968 
Place of Birth:    Herne (North Rhine-Westphalia) 
Marital Status:    Married with two children

Military Career

since July 2024
Director Training and Education & Deputy Commandant, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

2022 – 2024
Head of the Faculty of Air Forces & Representative of the Chief of the Air Force, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

2018 – 2022
Chief of Branch Plg I 2, Directorate-General for Planning, Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn

2016 – 2018
Head of Directorate I – Objectives and Innovation, Bundeswehr Office for Defence Planning, Berlin

2015 – 2016
Chief of Group I, Ground-Based Operations Directorate, Air Force Forces Command, Cologne

2014 – 2015
Group Chief, Ground-Based Air Defence/Tactical Air Command and Control Service/Force Protection, Air Force Operational Forces Command, Cologne

2012 – 2014
Commander, 1st Training Wing, Air Force Officer School, Fürstenfeldbruck

2010 – 2012
Commander, 23 Surface-to-Air Missile Group, Manching/Oberstimm

2007 – 2009
Assistant to Parliamentary State Secretary Thomas Kossendey, Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin

2006 – 2007
Desk Officer, Air Staff III 6, Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn

2003 – 2006
Operations Staff Officer and A3a Section Chief, HQHeadquarters 1st Air Division, Fürstenfeldbruck

2001 – 2003
Student on the General Staff Officer Course (Air Force) at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

1998 – 2001
PATRIOTPhased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target S3 Operations Officer, 25 Surface-to-Air Missile Group (staff), Eydelstedt

1996 – 1998
PATRIOTPhased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Operations Officer, 5th Sqn, 25 Surface-to-Air Missile Group, Großenkneten

1993 – 1996
PATRIOTPhased Array Tracking Radar to Intercept on Target Tactical Control Officer, 4th Sqn, 24 Surface-to-Air Missile Group, Oldenburg

1989 – 1993
Aerospace Engineering studies at the Bundeswehr University Munich

1988
Entry into the Bundeswehr

Mission Experience

Jul 2014 – Jan 2015
Commander, German Contingent (AF TURActive Fence Turkey), Kahramanmaraş, Turkey

Jan – Jul 2011
Senior Mentor (OMLT), ISAFInternational Security Assistance Force, Kunduz, Afghanistan