Lieutenant General Klaus Habersetzer
Executive Director of the Joint Air Power Competence Centre
Born in Augsburg, Germany
on 11 July 1957
Married with two daughters
Military Career
| 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, Kalkar, Germany Commander, Combined Air Operations Centre Uedem, Uedem, Germany Executive Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, 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