German Army Support Group
| German Army Association (FKH) |
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|---|---|
| purpose | Promotion of the German arms industry |
| President: | Major General a. D. Wolfgang Koepke |
| Executive Director: | Colonel a. D. Ulrich Gonsior |
| Establishment date: | October 11, 1995 |
| Seat : | Adenauerallee 15 53111 Bonn |
| Website: | www.fkhev.de |
The Förderkreis Deutsches Heer (FKH) is a registered association and lobby association of the German armaments industry founded in 1995 . Its current president is major general a. D. Wolfgang Koepke. Vice President Politics is the former CDU member of the Bundestag Oswin Veith and Vice President Industry is Frank Haun .
Bureau
The Presidium is composed of representatives from politics, the armed forces and the armaments industry and consists of at least 12 and at most 15 elected members.
See also
criticism
In 2005, the then Secretary of State for Defense, Klaus-Günther Biederbick , got the Heer Support Group into trouble with a letter. "The association includes active and former officers, members of the Bundestag and high-ranking representatives of the German armaments industry," the list of members includes company representatives from Rheinmetall , Krauss-Maffei Wegmann , EADS , Diehl and Renk, among others .
In 2007, Manfred Hirt, Vice President of the FKH until September 30, 2015, was sentenced to 18 months probation and a fine of 100,000 euros for a bribery scandal involving a Franco-German tank business while working for Renk .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The German Army Support Group , accessed on April 20, 2020.
- ↑ Former soldiers are not allowed to work for armaments lobby Welt-online from August 24, 2005
- ^ The Förderkreis Heer eV ( Memento from June 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 123recht.net: Suspected sentences for Renk managers in corruption affair confirmed: main defendant in tank scandal sentenced to prison ( memento from July 19, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ M. Marchiani a été double ment condamné en appel à la prison de ferme. Le Monde, March 1, 2007, accessed January 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Judgment 07-82.124 of the French Court of Cassation of March 19, 2008 (accessed on January 2, 2017)