Brigadier General Holger Peterat

Commander 23rd Mountain Infantry Brigade Bundeswehr

Military Career 07/1993 Joined the Bundeswehr with 212 Armoured Infantry Battalion, Augustdorf 1993 to 1996 Platoon leader training followed by assignments with 212 Armoured Infantry Battalion, Augustdorf, and 332 Armoured Infantry Battalion, Wesendorf 1996 to 2000 Academic studies of Business Economics at the Bundeswehr University, Hamburg 2000 to 2001 Platoon leader, 92 Armoured Infantry Battalion, Munster 2001 to 2004 Commander, 3rd Company, 92 Armoured Infantry Battalion, Munster 2004 to 2006 Armoured infantry officer with Combat Development Division, Armoured Infantry Section, Armour School, Munster incl. 2005 G3 staff officer (general staff branch 3 – Training and Exercises), Multinational Brigade Southwest, 10th German Kosovo Force Contingent, Prizren, Kosovo 2006 to 2008 Attended 3rd joint National General/Admiral Staff Officer Course, Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg 2009 Attended Intermediate Level Education at United States Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas/USA 2010 to 2012 G5 staff officer (general staff branch 5 –Planning), I German Netherlands Corps, Münster incl. 2011 to 2012 Chief, Forward Planning Team 2, Resolute Support Mission, Mazar i-Sharif, Afghanistan 2012 to 2014 Commander, 411 Armoured Infantry Battalion, Viereck 2014 to 2018 Assistant Chief of Branch I 3 (Planning) for Policy Matters, and Executive Officer with the Land Systems Roadmap Group (German French Armament Cooperation), Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn 2018 to 2022 Chief, G3 Planning Section, and Chief, G3 Branch, 10 Armoured Division, Veitshöchheim incl. 2020 to 2021 Chief of Staff, Train, Advise and Assist Command North, and Deputy Commander, German Contingent, Resolute Support Mission, Mazar i-Sharif, Afghanistan 2022 to 2024 Branch Chief I 4 (Planning), Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn since 09/2024 Commander, 23 Mountain Infantry Brigade, Bad Reichenhall