Clausewitz Society

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Clausewitz Society eV
purpose Dealing with security policy and strategy
Chair: Kurt Herrmann
Executive Director: Hans-Herbert Schulz
Establishment date: 1961
Number of members: about 1000
Seat : Hamburg
Website: www.clausewitz-gesellschaft.de

The Clausewitz-Gesellschaft eV is, according to its own description, an independent, non-partisan and non-profit registered association of active and former officers in the general staff and admiralty staff . The namesake is Carl Philipp Gottlieb von Clausewitz , the Prussian general and military theorist. The company is based in Hamburg .

General

The company has set itself the task of drawing benefits for the present from Carl von Clausewitz's thoughts and of examining which of the principles and insights he formulated are still relevant today.

The Clausewitz Society currently has around 1,000 members, including an increasing number of personalities from politics, science, business and journalism. President of the company is Lieutenant General a. D. Kurt Herrmann , who took over this office in 2013 from his predecessor Lieutenant General a. D. Klaus Olshausen took over. Vice President is Lieutenant General a. D. Hans-Werner Fritz ; the management has Brigadier General a. D. Hans-Herbert Schulz . There is an advisory board whose spokesperson is Friedel H. Eggelmeyer . Previously it was u. a. Manfred Eisele , Reiner Pommerin , Frank-Jürgen Weise , Christian Millotat and Michael Staack .

Organizationally, the Clausewitz Society is divided into the regional districts of North ( Hamburg ), West ( Cologne , Bonn , Rheinbach ), Berlin , Southwest ( Mainz , Ulm ) and Bavaria ( Munich ) and the Switzerland section . The East Regional District ( Magdeburg ) was added in September 2017 . There are also the “Clausewitz evenings” in the Clausewitz memorial in Burg near Magdeburg .

Members

President

Honorary President

Honorary members

Honorary members of the Society include (with date of award) Wilhelm List (1963), Erich von Manstein (1963), Franz Halder (1963), Hellmuth Felmy (1964), Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1964), Otto Groos (1967), Wilhelm Ritter von Schramm (1973), Werner Hahlweg (1987), Lothar Domröse (1991), Peter Paret (1999), Walter Schaufelberger (2006) and Roland Beck (2010).

In the chronicle of the Society from 2011, these honorary members are listed in addition to the articles about the respective year in a list of honorary members in Appendix P, which follows a list of the honorary presidents. At the Society's annual meeting in October 2013, there was a problem with the Society's past. For members requested that some of the most controversial military personnel, some of whom were involved in war crimes during the Nazi era and were therefore indicted and largely convicted, be removed from this list: Wilhelm List, Erich von Manstein, Franz Halder, Hans-Jürgen Stumpff, Hellmuth Felmy. The assembly refused. In 2014, the board distanced itself from the honorary memberships of these persons and stated that nowadays honorary memberships would not have been awarded to these persons, and that membership expired with the death of these persons. The board claimed the controversial military were listed for "historical honesty" reasons. He rejected any “closeness to this group of people”.

Awards donated

Medal of Honor General von Clausewitz

On June 1, 1968 the “General von Clausewitz Medal of Honor” was donated. The deed of foundation stipulates that the medal of honor is awarded each year to an officer whose annual work is part of the “National General Staff / Admiralty Staff Service” (LGAN) (formerly General / Admiral Staff Service (VL GA)) at the Bundeswehr Command Academy (FüAkBw) in Hamburg is a performance that is well above average. The annual work must express one's own creative thought on a scientific basis, whereby these should be indicative for the structure and existence of the community as well as for the development of rights and the free way of life of people. The award ceremony takes place annually as part of the farewell celebrations for the graduates of the General / Admiral Staff Course.

So far:

Award year Rank Surname course
1968 major Hubertus Senff 9th VL GA Army (1966)
1969 major Hans-Erich Abshoff 12. VL GA Luftwaffe (1967)
1970 Corvette Captain Uwe Radicke 10. VL GA Marine (1968)
1971 major Jürgen von Plüskow 12. VL GA Army (1969)
1972 Lieutenant colonel Peter Jacobs 15. VL GA Luftwaffe (1970)
1973 major Bernd Weber 14th VL GA Army (1971)
1974 Corvette Captain Otto H. Ciliax 14. VL GA Marine (1972)
1975 major Hans-Theodor Dingler 16. VL GA Army (1973)
1976 Major
major i. G. 		Wolfgang Thiemann
Edmond Thys (Belgium) 		17th VL GA Army (1974)
1977 major Gottfried Hufenbach 20th VL GA Air Force (1975)
1978 not awarded
1979 major Ulf von Krause 22. VL GA Air Force (1977)
1980 Captain Hans-Eberhard Freiherr von Steinaecker 21st VL GA Army (1978)
1981 Lieutenant captain Viktor Toyka 21. VL GA Marine (1979)
1982 Corvette Captain Frank Ropers 22. VL GA Marine (1980)
1983 Captain Wolf-Joachim Clauss 24th VL GA Army (1981)
1984 Captain Andreas Post 25th VL GA Army (1982)
1985 Captain Gerhard Schulz 28. VL GA Luftwaffe (1983)
1986 Captain Siegfried Joram 27th VL GA Army (1984)
1987 Captain Dietrich Menzel 28th VL GA Army (1985)
1988 Captain Roland Braun 31. VL GA Luftwaffe (1986)
1989 Corvette Captain Karl Bey 29. VL GA Marine (1987)
1990 Lieutenant captain
captain 		Jörg rings
Erich Vad 		VL GA Marine
VL GA Army
1991 Corvette Captain Heinrich Lange VL GA Marine
1992 Corvette Captain Rainer Brinkmann VL GA Marine
1993 Captain Dirk Parchmann VL GA Air Force
1994 major Dirk Backen VL GA Army
1994 major Karl-Georg Habel VL GA Army
1995 Corvette Captain Jürgen Velten VL GA Marine
1996 major Stefan Geilen VL GA Army
1997 Corvette Captain Frank Ganseur VL GA Marine
1998 major Dirk Scholl VL GA Army
1999 major Klaus Jürgen Haffner LGAN Air Force
2000 Major
Major
Major 		Frank Kammerer
Wolfgang Ohl
MajorPhilippe Flecksteiner 		LGAN Army
2001 major Thomas Enzinger LGAN Air Force
2002 major Sönke Marahrens LGAN Air Force
2003 major Oliver Dörre LGAN Air Force
2004 major Werner Knappe LGAN Air Force
2005 major Martin Mayer LGAN Army
2006 Chief Medical Officer Jens Peter Evers LGAN Army
2007 major Volker Pötzsch LGAN Air Force
2008 Corvette Captain Christian Hillmer LGAN Marine
2009 Chief Medical Officer Nicole Schilling
2010 Major i. G. Ingo Stüer
2011 Major i. G. Sven Kästner
2012 Major i. G. Thorsten Gensler
2013 Major i. G. Sebastian Grumer
2014 Major i. G. Germar Lacher
2016 major Sebastian Becker
2017 major Philipp Lange
2018 Frigate captain Jan Dinand
2019 Major
major 		Anja Blümel
Elisabeth Frank

Certificate of Honor General von Clausewitz

With the “Honorary Certificate General von Clausewitz” donated in 1990, international participants in the “National General Staff / Admiralty Staff Service” (LGAN) course at the Bundeswehr Leadership Academy are honored for their annual work.

Publications

The Clausewitz Society has been publishing a yearbook since 2005 . In addition, together with the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich, she is responsible for the Clausewitz studies. Interdisciplinary forum for the theory and practice of security policy, for strategy and armed forces research in the post-confrontational period (since 1996). There is a cooperation with the Society for Defense and Security Policy , the Working Group for Defense Research and the Society for Security Policy and Arms Control at the magazine for military issues European Defense . Articles and lectures were also published as documentation in the military journal Europäische Sicherheit & Technik .

Further publications

  • On behalf of the Clausewitz Society, Rolf Elble (Ed.): Clausewitz in our time. Outlook after 10 years of the Clausewitz Society . Wehr & Wissen Verlagsgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1971, ISBN 3-8033-0208-0 .
  • Ed .: Freedom without War? Contributions to the strategy discussion of the present in the mirror of the theory of Carl von Clausewitz . With a foreword by Ulrich de Maizière , Dümmler, Bonn 1980, ISBN 3-427-82051-3 .
  • Ed .: Eberhard Wagemann : Peace without armament? Mittler, Herford u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-8132-0323-9 .
  • In cooperation with the Military History Research Office (ed.): Clausewitz and the new thinking in Europe. Symposium of the Clausewitz Society in Koblenz . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1990.
  • On behalf of the Clausewitz Society, Reiner Pommerin (Ed.): Carl von Clausewitz in the 21st century; commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Clausewitz Society . Hartmann, Miles-Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-937885-41-4 .

Series of publications

  • Ed .: From the Cannae idea to the peace mission. Changes in the image of war and strategic thinking (= series of publications of the Clausewitz Society , issue 1). Rheinbach 2000
  • Ed .: Alliance systems and coalition warfare (= series of publications by the Clausewitz Society , issue 2). Rheinbach 2001
  • Ed .: Security precautions in a changed world (= series of publications of the Clausewitz-Gesellschaft eV , issue 3). Rheinbach 2002
  • Ed .: fight against terrorism. International challenge and national security precautions (= series of publications of the Clausewitz Society , issue 4). Alfter 2003
  • Ed .: External and internal security. Basics, experiences, perspectives (= series of publications of the Clausewitz-Gesellschaft eV , issue 5). Alfter 2004

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Viktor Toyka, Rüdiger Kracht: Clausewitz Society. Chronicle 1961–2011 . Published by the Clausewitz Society, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9810794-6-3 . Page 269, also available online as a pdf.
  2. ^ Gregor Peter Schmitz, Leonard Novy: Clausewitz Society: Where war criminals remain well-liked . SPON , March 18, 2014.
  3. ^ Kurt Herrmann : Circular letter from the President of the Clausewitz Society . clausewitz-gesellschaft.de, April 3, 2014.
  4. ↑ Prize winners. In: Clausewitz Society. Retrieved May 5, 2020 .
  5. ^ Diploma for 104 officers. In: Hamburger Abendblatt . September 21, 2000, accessed May 5, 2020 .