General Carsten Breuer

Date of birth: 1 December 1964
Place of birth: Letmathe, North Rhine-Westphalia
Family status: married, three children

Military Career

since 17/03/23  17th Chief of Defence

2022 – 2023  Commander, Bundeswehr Homeland Defence Command, Berlin

2022  Head of Activation Staff, Bundeswehr Homeland Defence Command, Berlin

2021 – 2022  Head of COVID-19 Task Force at the Federal Chancellery, Berlin

2018 – 2021  Commander, Bundeswehr Territorial Command, Berlin

2016 – 2017  Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations/Military Intelligence/Training Directorate at DEU A HQ, Strausberg

2015 – 2016  Project Manager for the 2016 White Paper on German Security Policy and the Future of the Bundeswehr, Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin

2014  Chief of Division I, Directorate-General for Security and Defence Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Berlin

2013 – 2014  Commander, 37 Armoured Infantry Brigade “Freistaat Sachsen“, Frankenberg/Saxony