Lieutenant General Carsten Jacobson (born 22 June 1955 in Hamburg) is a retired German Army officer and Deputy ISAF Commander.

[1] He attended the German Fuehrungsakademie where he undertook staff officer training from 1986 to 1988.

He was transferred to the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps (ARRC) headquarters in Mönchengladbach in 2007.

He became Chief of Staff for the German Army Forces Command in 2009 and he became spokesman for ISAF in 2011.

[2] Jacobson has a British wife, Sally Jane (nee McBride), a former Women's Royal Army Corps officer.