Colonel Olaf Tuneke

1994 Joined the Bundeswehr with Rocket Artillery Batallion 12 in Nienburg

1995 until 1997 Officer training with Target Acquisition Artillery Bn 61 in Albersdorf as well as courses in Idar-Oberstein and Hannover

1997 until 2000 Platoon leader with Target Acquisition Artillery Demonstration Bn 51 in Idar-Oberstein

2000 until 2003 S2 officer with Target Acquisition Artillery Demonstration Bn 51 in Idar-Oberstein

2003 until 2006 Fire Support Battery Commander with Target Acquisition Artillery Demonstration Bn 345 in Kusel

thereby 2005 Participation to 8th German ISAF Contingent, ISR Coy

2006 until 2007 Instruction Officer for medium range UAS (KZO) with DEU Artillery School in Idar-Oberstein

2007 until 2008 Chief of VI. Training Inspection with Artillery School in Idar-Oberstein

2008 until 2010 S3 Officer with Artillery Demonstration Regiment 345 in Kusel

thereby 2010 Participation to 23rd German ISAF Contingent as DepChief Joint Fires RC (N)

2010 until 2012 Instruction Officer with the Army Officers' School in Dresden

2012 until 2013 G3 future development of the Artillery Branch with Artillery School in Idar-Oberstein.

2013 until 2015 Staff Officer for C2 and effects with the Department of Artillery and Joint Fires at German Army Concepts and Capabilities Development Center (ACCDC) III 2 in Cologne

2015 until 2018 Commander of Artillery Demonstration Bn 345 in Idar-Oberstein

2018 until 2020 Staff Officer with the Planning Department II 4 at Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn

2020 until 2023 Chief of the Joint Fires Support Indirect Fires / Artillery Branch of the German ACCDC in Cologne

since April 2023 Commandant of the DEU Artillery School and General of the Artillery in Idar-Oberstein

Medals and badges of honor

1999 Bronze Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr

2005 Bundeswehr Foreign Duty Medal (ISAF) in Bronze

2005 Non-Article 5 NATO Medal ISAF

2013 Silver Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr

2025 Gold Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr