Alexandre Wattin

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Alexandre Wattin (born August 19, 1959 in Brühl ) is a German - French diplomat , reserve officer and author. He holds a rank in both the French and German armed forces.

Life

Military background

Forces armées françaises

Wattin was born the son of a French Foreign Legionnaire (NCO) and a German woman. At the age of seventeen (1976) he entered the French army and was trained at the NCO school École nationale des sous-officiers d'active in Saint-Maixent-l'École . He was first used in the telecommunications force and in the air defense and then served in various uses. a. in France, Germany and on the African continent (for example during the French military mission " Épervier " in Chad ). Most recently he was stationed at the 42e régiment de transmissions in Achern until 1995 .

After eighteen years of active service, he went through the Army Officer's School École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr . In 2008 Wattin , who served in the citizen reserve ( Réserve citoyenne ), moved from the army to the French air force . Since then, the reserve major has been deployed at the Mont-de-Marsan military airfield .

armed forces

In 2008 he also received German citizenship . In 2012 he was awarded the provisional rank of major in the reserve of the German Air Force and was appointed as a liaison officer for civil-military cooperation in the domestic armed forces in the Rhineland-Palatinate state command in Mainz.

Academic and civil-professional career

From 1995 to 1997 he trained at the École Franco-Allemande de Commerce et d'Industrie (EFACI) and was a trainee at Mercedes-Benz in Paris. He studied public administration ( License d'administration publique ) at the Institut de preparation à l'administration générale in Amiens and political science at the Institut d'études politiques de Lille . He obtained postgraduate degrees in diplomacy and international relations in Paris. In 2002 he obtained a Diplôme d'études approfondies (DEA) at the Institut d'études européennes (IEE) of the University of Paris VIII . He continued to educate himself. a. at the Société nationale des ingénieurs professionnels de France in Marseille and at the Institut régional d'administration in Metz . Since 2014 he has been studying Public Management (Master 2) at the General Administration Preparatory Institute (IPAG) of the University of Strasbourg .

From 1999 to 2003 he was the personal advisor to the Franco-German coordinator in the French Foreign Ministry in Paris . From 2003 to 2006 he worked for protocol and civil-military cooperation at the French Consulate General in Frankfurt am Main . At the same time he was a speaker at the Federal Language Office in Wiesbaden and at the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration in Mannheim. In 2008 he returned to the Foreign Ministry in Paris, responsible for consular affairs, until he switched to the French Ministry of Defense as a legal expert in 2011 .

Franco-German relations

He is co-initiator of a Franco-German Prize from the French learned society Académie des sciences morales et politiques . Wattin has also been President of the Observatoire des Relations franco-allemandes pour la Construction Européenne (ORFACE) in Chelles since 2001 and President of the Cercles Des Amis Et Anciens Du Dét since 2008 . Hawk Epervier in Chelles and since 2011 Vice-President of the Bundessenat Wirtschaft und Technologie of the Economic Committee Germany in Berlin.

He is the author of several essays and books on Franco-German relations that have been published in both languages.

family

Wattin is married and has two children. He lives in Chelles in the Seine-et-Marne department .

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • The 1001 raisons d'apprendre l'allemand. Le management franco-allemand. Des opportunités insoupçonnées . With a foreword by Kurt Beck , Harmattan, Paris 2002, ISBN 978-2-7475-2854-2 .
  • The Franco-German summit in the period 1991–2002 . With a foreword by Karl-Heinz Bender , Europa-Union-Verlag, Bonn 2003, ISBN 3-7713-0615-9 .
  • La coopération franco-allemande en matière de defense et de sécurité . Harmattan, Paris 2004, ISBN 978-2-7475-6223-2 .

literature

  • Horstmar Bussiek: Reserve officer in two nations . In: Zeitschrift für Heereskunde , 76th year, 2012, No. 446 (October / December), pp. 206–207.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Europasenat , Economic Committee Germany , accessed on June 16, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Wattin, Alexandre
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-German diplomat, reserve officer and author
DATE OF BIRTH 19th August 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Bruehl