General Edmund Entacher - Chief of Defence Staff
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General Edmund Entacher
Personal Data
- Date of birth: 30 September 1949
- Place of birth: Grossarl / Salzburg
- Marital status: widowed, with 2 children
Education and Career Highlights
- High school diploma
- 1974: Graduation from Theresian Military Academy,
commissioned as 1st Lieutenant, Infantry - Platoon leader, company commander, S 3 in an Infantry Brigade in the Tyrol
- 1979-82: General Staff Course, National Defence Academy, Vienna
- 1982-92: Assigned to Theresian Military Academy as:
- Instructor / Tactics
- Commander of a Mechanized Bataillon (anti-tank)
- Chief of Staff
- Institute Head
- Additional Milita function as:
- Chief of Staff / Infantry Brigade
- Deputy Division Commander
- 1992: Commander of the 3rd Mechanized Brigade
- 1997: Promotion to Brigadier General
- 2002: Ministry of Defence
- 1 Dec. 2002: Promotion to Lieutenant General
- 2002-06: Commander Land Forces
- 1 Sept. 2006: MoD, Advisor to the Minister of Defence on Milita Affairs
- 1 Nov. 2007: Deputy Chief of Defence Staff
- 1 Feb. 2008: Chief of Defence Staff
Publications
- More than 40 publications in military journals
Assignments Abroad
- Swedish War College
- Training Center for Tactics / German Army, Hannover
- Official visits to Abu Dhabi, Belgium, Germany, Georgia, Greece, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Macedonia, Slowakia, Slovenia, Syria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Cyprus, etc.
- Brigade Commander during the NATO / PfP Exercise CDE-01 in Azerbaijan
Merit Awards
- 2001: Grand Decoration for Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria
- 2002: Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Province of Lower Austria
- 2004: Ring of Honor of the Town of Krems
- 2004: Decoration of Honor of the Town of Weitra
- 2006: Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold for Services to the Province of Salzburg