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|battles = Border War |awards = |spouse=Helena Johanna (Crafford) }} General Andreas ('Kat') Liebenberg (1938–1998) was a South African military commander. He joined the army in 1955 after obtaining a BA Law degree at the University of Stellenbosch〔 and was commissioned in 1961. ==Army career== He was posted to London as a military attache in 1969. In 1972 he returned from London to become second in command of the Army Gymnasium. Two years later he was back at Army Headquarters as a Staff Officer before becoming Director Infantry, and in December 1977, as a colonel, Officer Commanding ''2 Military Area'' (later called ''Sector 10'') at Oshakati.〔 He stayed there till January 1980, when he became Director of Operations at Army Headquarters in the rank of Brigadier.〔 He served as GOC Special Forces from 1982 to 1985, as Chief of the Army from 1985 to 1990, as Chief of Defence Force Staff for a few months in 1990, and then as Chief of the SADF from 1990 to 1993.〔(Fact file: Chiefs of the SANDF,past and present | DefenceWeb )〕 He was a member of the defence committee of the Transitional Executive Council which supervised the South African government during the final months leading up the first democratic election in 1994. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Andreas Liebenberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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