Major General Wolfgang Jilke (born in 1949 in Austria) served as Force Commander of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF). He was appointed to this position by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in January 2007, succeeding Lieutenant General Bala Nanda Sharma of Nepal, who relinquished his post on 17 January 2007.

Prior to his appointment as Force Commander, Jilke served as a representative of Austria to the Military Committee of the European Union and in the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council Military Committee of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Before that, in 2002, he served as Chief of the Office of the Austrian Federal Minister of Defence.

Wolfgang Jilke

In 1971, General Jilke was commissioned into the army in Austria, where he held a number of positions in various capacities. From 1983 to 1986, he became a teacher at the Austrian War College. He became a member of the Royal Defence Studies in London in 1997 and in the following two years, he served as Commander of the Austrian International Peace Support Command.

Wolfgang Jilke

References

External links

UN Biography, Major General Wolfgang Jilke

Austrian generals

Living people

1949 births

UNDOF Force Commanders

Military personnel from Innsbruck

Austrian officials of the United Nations

Theresian Military Academy alumni

Wolfgang Jilke