Dhe Ministry of Defense welcomes the new commander of the armed forces with military honours. General Carsten Breuer was officially appointed the new inspector general of the Bundeswehr on Friday. He is now the military superior of around 183,000 women and men in the army, navy and air force.
The 58-year-old Breuer, an extremely experienced officer, had already made a name for himself among the general public as the coordinator of the Bundeswehr’s Corona support. The year before last, Chancellor Scholz (SPD) brought the General into the Chancellery as a crisis manager for the sluggish vaccination campaign. Most recently, Breuer was tasked with setting up a new territorial command. Defense Minister Boris Pistorius (SPD) had proposed Breuer in consultation with the Chancellery, because the Inspector General is also the Chancellor’s top military adviser.
The previous evening, Pistorius had put the previous “GI”, Eberhard Zorn, on temporary retirement. Zorn had led the Bundeswehr as Inspector General for almost five years and under the four ministers and two chancellors. In addition to major crises – such as the withdrawal from Kabul, administrative assistance during Corona – Zorn had to master the precarious situation of the troops and, after the Russian attack on Ukraine, set the course for a turning point in the Bundeswehr.
Zorn accepted as a matter of course that Minister Pistorius would nevertheless like to set a sign of a new beginning with a new team. Pistorius recognized and thanked Zorn for his many years of extremely successful service in the armed forces and for the country, but also for his professional and confident handling of his decision to make a change at the top.
Breuer, who has made his career in the army, takes over the armed forces in transition, which are facing major challenges one year after the proclamation of a “turning point” by the Federal Chancellor.
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