LIEUTENANT GENERAL ULRICH H



Lieutenant General Ulrich H. M. Wolf

Director

NATO CIS Services Agency

Lieutenant General Ulrich H. M. Wolf was born in 1947 in Rodenbach, Germany. He entered the German Army in 1967 as a conscript and after a few months of service enlisted as a volunteer. After his officer candidate training, he served as a youth officer and was selected to study economics at the German Army Technical College of Higher Education.

As a company commander, he was selected for the army’s general staff course in 1979. Following his training as a general staff officer at the Joint Services Command and Staff College in Hamburg, Lieutenant General Wolf served as the G3 Operations at corps level.

In 1983 he was a student at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth in the United States. After graduation, he was appointed as a Military Assistant to the Deputy Chief of the Federal Armed Forces Staff.  In 1986 he became the commanding officer of Engineer Battalion 110 in Minden, Germany. In 1988 he became G1 (in charge of personnel) of the 5th Armoured Division in Diez/Lahn, also in Germany. A year later he became responsible for public and media relations for the Army Chief of Staff and the entire German Army. 

Promoted full colonel in 1991, Lieutenant General Wolf was appointed Chief of Personnel Staff to the Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe in Brunssum, the Netherlands.  In 1994 he took over command of Armoured Brigade 12 in Amberg, Germany and in 1996, upon promotion to the rank of brigadier general, he was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations at Allied Land Forces Central Europe Headquarters in Heidelberg. During his assignment there, he deployed to NATO’s Implementation Force (IFOR) Headquarters in Sarajevo as the G3 (in charge of operations). During his deployment, the NATO mission changed from Implementation Force to Stabilisation Force (SFOR).

Following his deployment to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lieutenant General Wolf was appointed Assistant Chief of Staff for Operations and Logistics at Allied Forces Central Europe Headquarters in Brunssum, the Netherlands. The following year he was appointed Chief of Staff of 1 German/Netherlands Corps in Münster. Upon promotion to the rank of major general in January 2002, Lieutenant General Wolf commanded the German Army Support Forces Command in Koblenz.

Lieutenant General Wolf was promoted to his present rank in August 2004 and assumed command as Director of the NATO Communication and Information Systems Services Agency (NCSA) in Mons, Belgium, on 2 August 2004.

He was awarded the NATO Meritorious Service Medal for his outstanding performance with IFOR/SFOR. He also has the Netherlands Medal and the German Cross of Honour.

Lieutenant General Wolf married Edelgard in 1971.  They have one daughter.

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