Thomas Arthur Reiter is a retired European astronaut and a Brigadier General in the Luftwaffe currently working as Director of Human Spaceflight and Operations at the European Space Agency (ESA). As of 2008, he was one of the top 25 astronauts in terms of total time in space.
Background
With his wife and two sons he lives in Wahnbek (near Oldenburg) in Lower Saxony.