Gerhard W. Back (born December 10, 1944 in Mannheim ) is a General a. D. the Air Force . He was Air Force Air Force Inspector from 2001 to 2003 and Commander-in-Chief of Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum in the Netherlands from 2004 to 2007 .

Gerhard Back was born on December 10, 1944. He entered the Air Force after graduation in 1965 and went through the training as a reconnaissance aircraft driver and the General Staff training. In the course of his career, several uses in the reconnaissance squadrons followed, most recently, between 1988 and 1990, as Commodore of the reconnaissance squadron 51 “Immelmann” in Bremgarten.