Brigadier General
Petr Svoboda
About Brigadier General
Petr
Brigadier General Petr Svoboda
Czech Army
JFTC Deputy Commander/Chief of Staff
Brigadier General Petr Svoboda was born on 21 January 1971. He assumed the position of the Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of the Joint Force Training Centre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on 1 August 2022.
Military/ professional career
1993-1994 Platoon Commander, 9th Artillery Regiment, 9th Tank Division VVZ
1994-1995 Platoon Commander, 4th Command Battery, 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade
1995 Commander, 4th Command Battery, 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade
1995-1997 Commander, Command Battery, 4th Liaison Battalion, 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade
1997-1998 Officer of the Reconnaissance Group, Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Department, Headquarters and Staff, 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade
1998-2000 Staff Member of the Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Department, Headquarters and Staff, 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade
2000-2002 Chief of Staff, 41st Mechanised Battalion, 4th Rapid Deployment Brigade
2002-2004 Senior Officer – Specialist J3/7, JSRC Northeast (Karup, Denmark)
2004 Deputy Head of the Secretariat Department, Office of the Chief of the General Staff
2004-2008 Head of the Secretariat Department – Deputy Director, Office of the Chief of the General Staff
2008-2011 Head of the National Representation of the Czech Republic at AAC (Ramstein – Germany)
2011-2016 Commander, 74th Mechanised Battalion, 7th Mechanised Brigade
2016-2017 Chief of the Planning Department, Land Forces Headquarters
2017 Director of the Foreign Operations Department, Joint Operations Centre, Ministry of Defence
2018-2019 Deputy Commander, Training Command – Military Academy, Vyskov, CR
2020-2022 Commander, 7th Mechanised Brigade
Deployments
1996 UNPROFOR/IFOR (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2000-2001 SFOR (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
2002-2004 JSRC Northeast (Karup – Denmark)
2003 HQ ISAF, Kabul, Afghanistan
2008-2011 AAC (Ramstein – Germany)
2012-2013 PRT Logar ISAF Afghanistan
Education
1985-1989 Military Secondary School in Prague
1989-1993 Military University of Ground Forces in Vyskov
1999 Captains Career Course (Fort Sill, USA)
2003 Joint Operations Centre Course (Germany)
2015-2016 Army War College (Pennsylvania, USA)
2021 JFCEP Course (Croatia)
Hobbies
Family, military history literature, moto, sport, travelling.
General Svoboda is married to Michaela and has two children, Michaela and Petr.