Hans-Dieter Heumann

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Hans-Dieter Heumann (born May 29, 1950 in Celle ) is a retired German diplomat and was President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS).

biography

After schooling, he studied until 1972, first at the Academy of Music in Cologne . From 1972 to 1978 he then studied political science at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Bonn , which he completed in 1978 with the state examination in economics and social sciences .

In 1980 he was at Karl Dietrich Bracher to Dr. phil. PhD in Political Science and joined the Diplomatic Service. After completing his preparatory service , between 1982 and 1984 he worked for the Central America Department of the Foreign Office. This was followed by a position at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York , before he worked for the embassy in the United States of America in the cultural department between 1985 and 1987 .

He then worked as a resident fellow at the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York. After his return to Germany, he worked from 1988 to 1991 in the arms control and disarmament department of the German Foreign Office, before he was deputy head of the press department at the embassy in Russia between 1991 and 1994 . In 1994 he returned to the Foreign Office, where he was initially a member of the planning staff and then from 1997 to 1998 head of the Parliament and Cabinet Department (Referat 011).

In 1998 he moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense and until 2000 was head of the NATO department in the planning staff of the Federal Ministry of Defense .

In 2000 he was appointed political envoy at the embassy in France until 2004 and as such was also appointed German representative in the Franco-German Security Council . After completing a six-month course at the Federal Academy for Security Policy in 2005, he was political envoy at the embassy in the USA between 2005 and 2008. He then worked as a visiting professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University until 2009 . He was also a Transatlantic Fellow at the German Marshall Fund . In 2009 he succeeded Eberhard Kölsch as permanent representative at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg .

Heumann was President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy from 2011 to 2015. He was the successor of Lieutenant General a. D. Kersten Lahl . In October 2015, Heumann handed over his office to Karl-Heinz Kamp and retired.

For his services he was appointed Commandeur des Ordre national du Mérite of the Republic of France .

Publications

  • with Eva Karnofsky : The election campaign for the European Parliament. An analysis of European newspapers (= European writings of the Institute for European Politics . Vol. 54). Europa-Union-Verlag, Bonn 1980.
  • German foreign policy beyond idealism and realism . With a foreword by Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Olzog, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-7892-8076-3 .
  • Hans-Dietrich Genscher. The biography. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-77037-0 .
  • European integration and national interest politics. Problems of research (= university papers / social sciences . Vol. 17). Forum Academicum in the publishing group Athenäum, Hain, Scriptor, Hanstein, Königstein 1980, ISBN 3-445-02082-5 .

He was also the author of several articles in professional journals. This includes:

  • National interests and security in Europe. In: From Politics and Contemporary History . Bonn 8/1989.
  • with Alain Carton: L'architecture de sécurité européenne: Une tache franco-allemande. In: Relations Internationales et Stratégiques. Paris 18/1995.
  • Multipolarity and "Europe Puissance". In: International Politics . Berlin April 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The three gaps in German security policy. In: authorities mirror. August 30, 2011, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on May 13, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Kamp is President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy. Retrieved May 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Heumann, Hans-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle