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Place of Birth: Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
About Egon Ramms
- Egon Ramms (born September 21, 1948 in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a retired German general who held numerous international commands.
- Ramms is a father of two. His last assignment was commander of NATO's Joint Force Command in Brunssum, Netherlands.
- As such, he oversaw all allied operations in Central/ Northern Europe and Afghanistan. Ramms joined the German Army in 1968, eventually becoming an officer candidate.
- From 1971 to 1975, he studied engineering at the Fachschule des Heeres Darmstadt and specialized in tank engineering.
- Afterwards he held numerous commands in maintenance units and became the G4 officer (logistics) of the German Army's 3rd Armoured Division.
- Subsequently he attended the German general staff officer course in Hamburg.
- In 1982, he was made G3 officer (operations) of the 6th Mechanized Infantry Division.
- Later on, he served as the G3 officer and chief of staff of the Home Defense Brigade 51.
- An assignment to the German military's office for arms control and disarmament followed.
- Ramms was made battalion commander of Maintenance Battalion 120 in 1988 and returned to the Ministry of Defence in 1990.
- For the next six years, he was assigned to numerous posts responsible for procurement and logistics.
- Promoted to brigadier general, he took command over Logistics Brigade 1 until 1998 when he was made Assistant Chief of Staff, Armed Forces Staff V (Logistics, Infrastructure and Environmental Protection).
- From 2000 to 2004, Ramms was the head of the German Armed Forces Staff at the headquarters in Bonn. He assumed command over the Szczecin-based Multinational Corps Northeast in 2004, a post he held for the next two years.
- In 2007, Ramms was made commanding general, Joint Force Command Brunssum.
- He was one of only three German four-star-generals.
- In September 2010, on the day of his retirement, he was awarded the Ghazi Mir Bacha Khan medal from President Karzai of Afghanistan.
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