Franz HU Borkenhagen

Franz HU Borkenhagen (* 1945 in Walsrode ) is a German officer and journalist specializing in security policy . From 2002 to 2005 he was head of the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense .

Life

Borkenhagen joined the Bundeswehr in 1965 ; he served in the army in the "technical troop replenishment". From 1968 to 1984 he had various assignments as an officer in the troops and a. as company commander and in staff. In 1980 the captain was a founding member of the SPD-affiliated “Study Group Alternative Security Policy” (SAS) together with Bernd Grass , Volker Kröning and Lutz Unterseher . In 1983/84 the major was used in the Military Fellow at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg . Most recently he held the rank of lieutenant colonel .

Between 1984 and 1991 he was an advisor for Bundeswehr issues to the SPD party executive, office manager of the deputy SPD party chairman Johannes Rau and head of department 1 ("Organization") in the Erich-Ollenhauer-Haus , the SPD's federal party headquarters in Bonn. From 1991 to 1998 Borkenhagen was under Rau, who meanwhile was Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia , government employee, d. H. Head of the department responsible for European policy in the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia and in the Ministry for Federal and European Affairs of North Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf and Bonn.

After Gerhard Schröder (SPD) was elected Federal Chancellor in 1998, Borkenhagen moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense , where under Minister Rudolf Scharping (SPD) he was Deputy Head of the Planning Staff of the Federal Minister of Defense in Bonn and Berlin from 1999 to 2001 . He served in this capacity under Lieutenant General Harald Kujat and Wolfgang Schneiderhan . In 2001/02 he took over the management of the press and information staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin and was thus also the spokesman for the Federal Defense Minister Scharping. In 2002 Schneiderhan was appointed inspector general of the Bundeswehr and Borkenhagen succeeded him as head of the planning team. In this function, Borkenhagen initially served under Minister Scharping and after his resignation from the cabinet in 2002 under Peter Struck (SPD) until 2005. After the federal election in 2005 , Borkenhagen was replaced by Ulrich Schlie . During his tenure he was a guest of a working group of the commission “Common Security and Future of the Bundeswehr” ( Weizsäcker commission ).

From 2006 to 2010 he was a fellow of the Bertelsmann Foundation in Gütersloh. He was also a member of the “Venusberg Group” along with other foreign and security policy experts. In 2010 he became head of the International Security Policy working group of the SPD-affiliated Friedrich Ebert Foundation .

(Ed.): "Wehrkraftzersetzung". Officers comment on the Heilbronn Declaration (= Rororo . 5435). Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-15435-8 .
(Ed.): Bundeswehr - Democracy in olive ?. Armed forces in transition . Dietz , Berlin a. a. 1986, ISBN 3-8012-0114-7 .
with Christian Bruns-Klöss, Gerhard Memminger (Hrsg.): The German countries in Europe. Political Union and Economic and Monetary Union . Nomos , Baden-Baden 1992, ISBN 3-7890-2648-4 .
Europe needs CFSP. Common foreign and security policy in and for Europe . Bouvier , Bonn 1993, ISBN 3-416-02443-5 .
Foreign policy interests of Germany. Role and tasks of the Bundeswehr . Bouvier, Bonn 1997, ISBN 3-416-02615-2 .
(Ed.): European policy of the German states. Balance sheet and perspectives after the Amsterdam summit . Leske and Budrich, Opladen 1998, ISBN 3-8100-1881-3 .
with Thomas Fischer, Fritz Franzmeyer, Siegfried Magiera , Peter-Christian Müller-Graff: Division of labor in the European Union. The role of the regions . Bertelsmann Foundation Publishing House , Gütersloh 1999, ISBN 3-89204-847-9 .
The development of European security and defense policy (= General series of the Austrian Society for National Defense and Security Policy . 71). Austrian Society for National Defense and Security Policy, Vienna 2004.

↑ Susanne Bund (Red.): 40 Years of the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, 1971–2011. Research, advice, teaching . IFSH, Hamburg 2011, p. 17.
↑ EAR: No substitute for politics . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , July 11, 1997, p. 20.

predecessor	Office	successor
Lieutenant General Wolfgang Schneiderhan	Head of the Planning Staff of the Federal Minister of Defense 2002–2005	Ministerial Director Ulrich Schlie

personal data
SURNAME	Borkenhagen, Franz HU
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German officer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	1945
PLACE OF BIRTH	Walsrode