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german army logistics regiment 46 germany war in afghanistan brigadier general michael bartscher
 michael bartscher
michael bartscher

brigadier general michael bartscher is a german army officer who has served in logistics roles .
bartscher received a `` diplom '' in business administration from the bundeswehr university munich .
following that he held various technical and management positions in the logistics units of the german army .
from 1992 to 1994 he took the general staff course at the `` führungsakademie der bundeswehr '' in hamburg .
up to the unit 's amalgamation in 2012 , he served as the commander of logistics regiment 46 based in the freiherr-vom-stein-kaserne in diez , with the rank of colonel .
in june 2012 , bartscher visited soldiers of his regiment at mazar-e-sharif in afghanistan , while it was part of the german contingent of isaf .
starting in 2012 , bartscher was head of planning , organization , and control in planning department ii of the federal ministry of defence .
in addition , he served as a lecturer on administration at the führungsakademie .
he then took up responsibility for logistics of bundeswehr deployments at the bundeswehr operational command -lrb- `` einsatzführungskommando der bundeswehr '' -rrb- in geltow .
in 2014 , he was appointed to be head of logistics for isaf 's regional command north at camp marmal .
he additionally served as an isaf military adviser to the afghan national army .
on 5 august 2014 , bartscher was badly wounded in an attack at marshal fahim national defense university by an afghan soldier -- in which u.s. army general harold j. greene was killed .
