Bruno Kahl

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Bruno Guntram Wilhelm Kahl (born July 12, 1962 in Essen ) is a German lawyer . He is President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

education and study

Kahl became in 1981 the general university at Kardinal-Frings-Gymnasium in Bonn - Beuel , the same year he became the military service in the army moved in, the he performed until the 1983rd Kahl then studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the University of Lausanne from 1983 to 1988 . During his studies, he completed a journalistic training at the Catholic School of Journalism ifp in Munich . After his first legal examination, he did a legal traineeship in Bonn, Speyer and Sydney from 1991 to 1994 . In 1994 he took his second state examination at the Cologne Higher Regional Court . In 2008 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD .

job

After his first professional position at the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations (BDA), Kahl was a consultant at the Federal Chancellery from 1995 to 1996 . From 1996 to 2005 he worked for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group, where he assisted the group chairman , Wolfgang Schäuble , in various functions.

In 2005, in Merkel's first cabinet , Kahl became head of the ministerial office and spokesman for Federal Minister Wolfgang Schäuble in the Federal Ministry of the Interior (BMI). From 2006 to 2009 he was head of the management team at the BMI. In 2008 he was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD . In 2010 he followed Schäuble to the Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF) and was also head of the management staff of this ministry . Since 2011 he has been Head of Department VIII (Privatizations, Participations and Federal Real Estate ) at the BMF as Ministerial Director .

On April 27, 2016, Bruno Kahl was appointed President of the Federal Intelligence Service by the Federal Government ( Merkel III Cabinet ) as Gerhard Schindler's successor . His period of service began on July 1, 2016. His successor in the BMF was Johannes Schmalzl .

Kahl is Colonel of the Reserve . He is considered a close confidante of Schäuble, a man of low tones, discreet, loyal and hardworking. Before his appointment as BND president, Kahl had no contact with intelligence work. His appointment came as a surprise.

Private

Kahl is the son of the physicist Bernhard Kahl and the librarian Ute Kahl, nee Schoenitz and has two younger siblings. He has two children and has been widowed since 2008.

Quotes

  • “Instead of having a partner for European security, we in Russia have more of a potential danger. The world political actor Russia is back, it will remain an uncomfortable neighbor. "

Fonts

  • European Union: Federal State - State Union - State Union? On the judgment of the BVerfG of October 12, 1993 . In: The State . tape 33 , 1994, pp. 241 ff .
  • Elements of Catholic thought in secular political theory on Carl Schmitt's early work . Berlin 2008 (359 pages, dissertation ).
  • with Nils Ole Oermann (ed.): The happy Sisyphos - for Wolfgang Schäuble . Herder , Freiburg im Breisgau, Basel, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-451-30663-1 .
  • The Great Patriotic Enterprise - Why the Treuhand became a success story? In: Otto Depenheuer , Karl-Heinz Paqué (Hrsg.): Unity - Property - Efficiency: Balance of the Treuhandanstalt. Commemorative writing on the 20th anniversary of Dr. Detlev Karsten Rohwedder . Springer, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-33114-5 , p. 95-97 .
  • with Andreas Kerst: Public companies . In: Werner Gatzer , Tilmann Schweisfurth (Hrsg.): Public finance in the state practice . BWV Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-8305-3325-2 , p. 613-642 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Government confirms change at the top of the BND. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . April 27, 2016, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Foreign secret service: Bruno Kahl takes over chief position at the BND. In: Spiegel Online . July 1, 2016, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Arnold Rieger: Ex-District President goes to Berlin: Schmalzl has a new job at Schäuble. In: Stuttgarter Zeitung . July 14, 2016, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Bruno Kahl. In: Munzinger archive . September 27, 2016, accessed December 15, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Jörg Diehl, Matthias Gebauer, Martin Knobbe, Christian Reiermann, Michael Sauga, Jörg Schindler, Fidelius Schmid: Inner Security - Without Crumple Zone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 2016, p. 20-22 ( online ).
  6. ^ Secret service before leadership change - BND boss Schindler is replaced. In: n-tv . April 26, 2016, accessed November 14, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Ben Knight: Balance of Terror: "Not the Red Army" - Debate on Russia speech by the BND chief. In: Deutsche Welle . November 16, 2017. Retrieved November 23, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bald, Bruno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kahl, Bruno Guntram Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, President of the Federal Intelligence Service
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH eat