Rainer Feist

Admiral Rainer Feist (12 April 1945 – 19 May 2007) was an officer in the German Navy until his retirement in 2004.

Military career

Feist was born in Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony. He enlisted in the Bundeswehr in 1966 as an officer cadet and graduated from Naval Academy Mürwik in 1968. After that he served onboard Fast Attack Crafts and Destroyers. From 1974 he was trained as an antisubmarine warfare officer, and later undertook the Admiral staff course at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg. In 1979 Feist became the commanding officer of the guided-missile Fast Attack Craft Greif.

From then on Feist served as Assistant Branch Chief, "Politico-Military Affairs" at the German Ministry of Defence in Bonn (1981–1983) and as Branch Chief "Planning" at the Allied Command Baltic Approaches (BALTAP) in Denmark (1984–1987). He commanded the 2nd Fast Attack Craft Squadron based in Olpenitz between 1987 and 1990 and was instructor at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, which was followed by a service run at the Armed Forces Staff, Federal Ministry of Defence in Bonn as Branch Chief "Politico-Military Affairs".