of the Clausewitz Society and member of the scientific advisory council of the German Military History Research Office (MGFA). As commander of the command and general staff college he changed the academy to a strategic and operational think tank and opened it to officers from Eastern European countries, one reason why he was awarded an honorary doctorate of the University of Budapest. In June 1993 he was promoted to lieutenant general and appointed commander of the 3rd Army Corps in Koblenz, which he also had to disband due to military reforms. In 1994 he built up the German Army Forces Command in Koblenz as commanding general and made it a key element for the German military missions abroad. He formally led the German military missions in Somalia (UNOSOM), Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina (IFOR, SFOR). In April 1998 he was promoted to general and appointed Commander NATO Joint Headquarters Centre (today Allied Force Command Heidelberg). He actively participated in the NATO structure reform process. From October 1999 to April 2000 he served as commander KFOR in Pristina, Kosovo and was in charge of 50,000 soldiers from 39 nations. Klaus Reinhardt retired in March 2001. Afterwards he began to work as a freelance journalist and writer as well as a lecturer for modern history and political science. Views In 1993, as the commander of the III. Corps, Reinhardt was heavily criticised by high-ranking conservative politician Alfred Dregger for banning Bundeswehr soldiers to participate in a memorial service at a German war cemetery that also held the graves of fallen Waffen-SS soldiers on Volkstrauertag. Reinhardt argued that he meant no disrespect to the young soldiers that had died for Germany but found that the ideology of the Waffen-SS was incompatible with the values of democracy. References 1941 births 2021 deaths Military personnel from Berlin Bundeswehr generals Generals of the German Army Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany University of Freiburg alumni Non-U.S. alumni of the Command and General Staff College Commandants of the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College