Carsten Jacobson

Carsten Jacobson

Carsten Jacobson in Afghanistan, 2012
Born 22 June 1955
Allegiance  Germany
Service/branch  Germany Army
Years of service 1974–present
Rank Lieutenant General
Battles/wars War in Afghanistan (2001–present)

Lieutenant General Carsten Jacobson (born 1955 in Hamburg) is a German Army officer and Deputy ISAF Commander.

Military career

Jacobson joined the Bundeswehr in 1974 and trained as a tank commander.[1] He attended the German Fuehrungsakademie where he undertook staff officer training from 1986 to 1988.[1]

Jacobson completed the Staff College in Camberley between 1900 and 1992.[1] He served abroad as part of SFOR in Bosnia and Herzegowina between 1997 and 1998 and then served with KFOR in 1999.[1] He was transferred to the Embassy of Germany, Washington, D.C. in 2001 and served there until 2005.[1] He was transferred to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) headquarters in Mönchengladbach in 2007.[1] He became Chief of Staff for the German Army Forces Command in 2009 and he became spokesman for ISAF in 2011.[1]

In 2012, he became commander of the 1st Panzer Division and in 2014 he became Deputy Commander of ISAF.[2]

Honors

Private life

Jacobson has a British wife, Sally Jane (nee McBride), a former Women's Royal Army Corps officer. They married in 1979 and have one daughter.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Brigadier General Carsten Jacobson". ISAF. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
  2. "ISAF welcomes new Deputy Commander". ISAF. Retrieved 21 October 2014.
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