General Egon Ramms was born in Datteln, Westphalia on September 21st, 1948.

He joined the Bundeswehr on October 1st, 1968 as officer candidate and temporary career volunteer for 3 years, serving at first in the Unna-based Maintenance Battalion 470. From 1968 to 1971 General Ramms started his officer education and training in Aachen and Hannover. In 1971 he began academic studies in Darmstadt, from which he graduated as a Bachelor of Engineering for Mechanical Engineering in 1975, specialty: automotive engineering and tank engineering. In 1975 General Ramms served as the maintenance officer in Maintenance Company 70 based in Stade/Elbe and from 1975 to 1978 he was assigned as Commander of this unit. From 1978 to 1980 General Ramms continued his military service as the maintenance officer in G4 of Headquarters 3rd Armoured Division in Buxtehude. The following two years General Ramms spent at the General Staff Training in Hamburg. From 1982 to 1984 he served in G3 Ops in 6th Armoured Inf Div in Neumünster and then for two years as Chief of Staff and G3 in Home Defense Brigade 51 in Eutin. From 1986 to 1988 he was the Assistant Chief of Branch, Arms Control and Disarmament in the Federal Ministry of Defence, Armed Forces Staff III 5. For the next two years General Ramms took the command of Maintenance Battalion 120 in Rheine. General Ramms returned to the Ministry of Defence as the Assistant Chief of Branch in Army Staff I 7 in 1990. For the next two years General Ramms was the Assistant Chief of Branch in the office of the State Secretary for Procurement. In this position he was responsible for army and air force armament and logistics. From 1992 to 1994 General Ramms became a member of the office of State Secretary Schönbohm as the Director of Armament Section. In 1994 he was appointed as the Chief of the Central Branch in the Army Staff of Ministry of Defence. In 1996 General Ramms took over the command of Logistic Brigade 1 in Lingen/Ems for the next two and a half years. In 1998 General Ramms became Deputy Chief of Staff, Armed Forces Staff V, Logistics, Infrastructure, and Environmental Protection in the German Armed Forces. This was followed by his assignment as Director of Armed Forces Staff, Ministry of Defence, commencing 2000, from where he was assigned as Commander to the Multinational Corps Northeast on February 2004. General Ramms took up his current post as Commander Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum on 26th January 2007.

General Ramms is married to Brigitte; they have two children. His hobbies are classical music, golf and literature.