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Robert Prader (born 1960 in Innsbruck) is a major general of the Austrian Federal Army and deputy commander of the Land Armed Forces.

Military career

Training and first uses
He was trained at the Theresian Military Academy and graduated as a lieutenant in 1983, after which he became first platoon commander and later company chief in a mountain fighter battalion.

Service as Staff Officer
From 1988 to 1991 he took part in the 12th General Staff course at the National Defence Academy in Vienna, which he graduated in the rank of major and was subsequently tactical teacher at the National Defence Academy from 1991 to 1995.
From 1995 to 1997 he completed the French General Staff course at the Collège interarmées de Défense (CID), before being deployed in 1997 as battalion commander of the Federal Army in foreign missions in Cyprus.

From 2000 to 2003 he was head of the 16th General Staff course at the National Defence Academy.

Service in general rank
Prader was promoted to brigadier on 30 January 2003 and was commander of the Multinational Task Force South within the KFOR mission in 2008.

Later he was commander of the 4th Panzergrenadier Brigade and deputy commander of the Land Forces.

Foreign missions
1997 as battalion commander of the Austrian blue helmet battalion of the United Nations peace mission on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus.
2008 as Commander of the Multinational Task Force South (MNTF South) at KFOR in Kosovo

Private
Robert Prader is married and has two children.

Individual evidence

Major General (Second Republic of Austria)
Brigadier Commander (Second Republic of Austria)
Commander (hunter)
Person in the Kosovo War (Austria)
Federal Ministry of Defence
Graduate of Theresian Military Academy
Born in 1960
Person (Tyrol)
Austrians
Man