Jörg Schönbohm
Jörg Schönbohm | |
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Deputy Minister President of Brandenburg | |
In office 13 October 1999 – 19 February 2009 | |
Minister President | Manfred Stolpe Matthias Platzeck |
Preceded by | Alwin Ziel |
Succeeded by | Ulrich Junghanns |
Minister of the Interior of Brandenburg | |
In office 13 October 1999 – 6 November 2009 | |
Minister President | Manfred Stolpe Matthias Platzeck |
Preceded by | Alwin Ziel |
Succeeded by | Rainer Speer |
Senator for the Interior of Berlin | |
In office 25 January 1996 – 12 November 1998 | |
Governing Mayor | Eberhard Diepgen |
Preceded by | Dieter Heckelmann |
Succeeded by | Eckart Werthebach |
Inspector of the Army | |
In office 17 October 1991 – 18 February 1992 | |
Deputy | Harald Schulz |
Preceded by | Henning von Ondarza |
Succeeded by | Helge Hansen |
Personal details | |
Born | Neu Golm, Germany | 2 September 1937
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Jörg Schönbohm (born 2 September 1937 in Neu Golm) is a German politician (CDU) and a retired Lieutenant General. He was the first commander of the Bundeswehr Eastern Command in 1990, which supervised the absorption of the East German National People's Army into the Federal German armed forces. In 1991 he became the Inspector of the Army, the highest-ranking officer in the German Army; he was retired in 1992 to become under Secretary for Security policy in the Federal Ministry of Defence. From 1996 to 1998 Schönbohm was Senator of the Interior for the city of Berlin, and from 1999 to 2009 he held the same office as Interior Minister for the state of Brandenburg.
Personal life
Schönbohm is Protestant, married with three children and resides in Kleinmachnow in Potsdam-Mittelmark. His brother Wulf is a CDU politician as well.
Award
- 2009 – Manfred Wörner Medal
Works
- Jörg Schönbohm, Two Armies and One Fatherland: The End of the Nationale Volksarmee, Berghahn Books, 1996, ISBN 1-57181-069-2, ISBN 978-1-57181-069-4
External links
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- Jörg Schönbohm in the German National Library catalogue
- Official Bio: German Army
- 1937 births
- Living people
- People from Oder-Spree
- People from the Province of Brandenburg
- Christian Democratic Union of Germany politicians
- Members of the Landtag of Brandenburg
- Senators of Berlin
- Bundeswehr generals
- Lieutenant generals of the German Army
- 20th-century German politicians
- 21st-century German politicians
- Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- German politician stubs