Egon Ramms

Egon Ramms (born September 21, 1948 in Datteln, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a retired German general who held numerous international commands.

Afterwards he held numerous commands in maintenance units and became the G4 officer (logistics) of the German Army's 3rd Armoured Division.

From 2000 to 2004, Ramms was the head of the German Armed Forces Staff at the headquarters in Bonn.

[citation needed] He assumed command over the Szczecin-based Multinational Corps Northeast in 2004, a post he held for the next two years.

In September 2010, on the day of his retirement, he was awarded the Ghazi Mir Bacha Khan medal from President Karzai of Afghanistan.