The Corps Commander’s primary mission is to prepare the Corps to carry out the full range of military operations throughout the area of responsibility and beyond.
Lieutenant General Rainer Korff has been the Commander of the Multinational Corps Northeast since 17th December 2009. Lieutenant General Korff was born in 1955. He began his military career in 1973 and continued climbing up the ladder of ranks, serving, among other positions, as a platoon leader, the commander of a battery, brigade, tank regiment and division. When he was the Commander of the 18th Armoured Brigade "Holstein", his troops served in Afghanistan and in the Balkans. Lieutenant General Korff assumed several posts at the German Ministry of Defence. His previous position was 1st Chief of the Bundeswehr Enlisted Personnel Office in Köln.
Commander's CV - Lieutenant General Rainer KORFF
PREVIOUS COMMANDERS:
2006 - 2009 Lieutenant General Zdzisław GORAL 
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2004 - 2006 Lieutenant General Egon RAMMS CV
2001 - 2003 Lieutenant General Zygmunt SADOWSKI CV
1999 - 2001 Lieutenant General Henrik Hovard EKMANN CV
