Major General Carsten Breuer is to become the new Inspector General of the Bundeswehr. This is reported unanimously by several media. As the F.A.Z. was confirmed from ministry circles, General Eberhard Zorn gives up the post. He had held the office as the highest-ranking soldier since April 2018.
Breuer is currently commander of the new Territorial Command of the Bundeswehr, which he has set up. His task as head of the Corona crisis team in the Chancellery also attracted public interest.
The new Territorial Command has the "operational command of forces" – including the army, air force, navy, medical service and cyber/information space – in homeland security. This also includes administrative and disaster assistance, hybrid threats, civil-military cooperation and the coordination of the deployment of allied forces in Germany or the transfer via Germany.