BIOGRAPHY
LIEUTENANT GENERAL KLAUS HABERSETZER Commander Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem
1977 Joined the Bundeswehr 1977 Officer’s course at the Air Force Officer School in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany 1978 Studies in aerospace engineering at the Bundeswehr University in Munich, Germany 1982 Fire control officer training (HAWK) at the US Army Air Defense Artillery School, and the German Air Force Air Defense School in Fort Bliss, Texas, USA 1983 Platoon leader, fire control officer (HAWK) and tactical director with the Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion 34 in Rottenburg/Laaber, Germany 1986 Reconnaissance officer/squadron operations officer with the Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion 33 in Erding, Germany 1988 S3 operations officer with the Surface-to-Air Missile Battalion 33 in Lenggries, Germany 1990 Command and general staff officer training at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg, Germany 1992 Operations staff officer at the Bundeswehr Office for Studies and Exercises in Ottobrunn, Germany 1994 Assistant branch chief, Air Staff III 2, Federal Ministry of Defense 1996 Commander of the Surface-to-Air Missile Group 22 (PATRIOT) in Penzing, Germany 1999 Tutor and lecturer on air operations at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg, Germany 2000 Chief of the conceptual further development section with the Inspector General of the Air Force at the Air Force Office in Cologne-Wahn, Germany 2001 Branch chief, A 3 IV at the Air Force Command in Cologne-Wahn, Germany 2003 Commander of the German Air Force Air Defense School in Fort Bliss, Texas 2005 Branch chief, Air Staff III 6 at the FMOD 2008 Commander of the Air Force Officer School in Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany 2011 Deputy DCOS Stability and Director, Civil-Military Synchronization at the ISAF Headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan 2012 Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, Response Forces Operations Command in Ulm, Germany 2013 Chief of Staff, Multinationales Kommando Operative Führung / Multinational Joint Headquarters Ulm
2018 Commander, German Air Operations Command in Kalkar, Germany Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem in Uedem, Germany Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre in Kalkar, Germany
MEDALS AND DECORATIONS Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr Silver Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr Bundeswehr Silver Foreign Duty Medal ISAF NATO Medal for ISAF Legion of Merit Meritorious Service Medal
Lieutenant General Klaus Habersetzer was born in Augsburg, Germany on 11 July 1957. He is married and has two daughters.
(Current as of December 2019)