Hans Rühle

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Hans Rühle (born December 31, 1937 in Stuttgart ) is a German lawyer and economist . From 1978 to 1982 he was head of the social science institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and from 1982 to 1988 of the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense . He then coordinated the establishment of the Federal Academy for Security Policy and headed a NATO agency .

Life

Rühle was born in Stuttgart- Bad Cannstatt in 1937 as the son of an inspector and his wife. In 1958 he passed the final examination at the Wirtemberg high school in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim . He then did military service with the paratrooper battalion 261 of the Bundeswehr in Ellwangen. In 1959 he resigned as a lieutenant in the reserve. Most recently he reached the rank of colonel in the reserve.

From 1959/60 he studied history , political science and sport at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen . In 1963 he also began studying law . In 1964 he moved to the Albert Ludwig University in Freiburg im Breisgau. In 1966 the first state examination followed and in 1967 the legal clerkship in the higher regional court district of Stuttgart. During his legal preparatory service, he began studying economics , which he completed in 1970 as a graduate economist at the University of Regensburg . As early as 1968 he was at the constitutional lawyer Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte , at that time Member of Parliament of the CSU , to the High Law and Political Science Faculty of the Bavarian University of Würzburg with a thesis on the state election in 1964 in Baden-Wuerttemberg for Dr. jur. PhD.

From 1971 to 1974 he was under the lawyers Manfred Wörner ( CDU ) and Friedrich Zimmermann (CSU), deputy head of the newly founded Institute for Security and International Issues in Bonn, which was run by the CSU-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation and the CDU-affiliated Konrad -Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS). The institute, later based in Munich, dealt with foreign and security policy and internal security. In 1974 he became head of the research area for foreign and security policy at the social science institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Sankt Augustin near Bonn . From 1978 to 1982 he was director of the same institute. Together with his deputy Hans-Joachim Veen , who became his successor, Rühle published the series of studies on politics ( Verlag Bonn aktuell ) on behalf of the KAS . As director of the institute, Rühle acted as an advisor to Manfred Wörner, chairman of the defense committee of the German Bundestag , in matters of security policy.

With the change of power in Bonn to the black-yellow coalition in October 1982, he replaced Ministerialdirektor Walther Stützle as head of the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense in Bonn; Wörner became Minister of Defense. In the 1984 Kießling affair , he warned of insufficient knowledge from the Military Counter-Intelligence Service (MAD). During the US presidency of Ronald Reagan he became an important pillar in German-American relations . While at the beginning of the 1980s he was still skeptical about missile defense for the USA and Western Europe, as he was not convinced of protection against Soviet ICBMs , he considered it legitimate from the mid-1980s, given the Soviet advantage in this area. In 1985, he argued in the Spiegel against the physicist Hans-Peter Dürr ( Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics ), who was a critic of the SDI initiative. Rühle belonged to the management level in the BMVg and was involved in decision-making processes in arms control , security policy and armed forces planning. Nevertheless, he is not included in the closest discussion group around Kohl's confidante Horst Teltschik , at the time deputy head of the Federal Chancellery. In the spring of 1987, Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl ultimately prevented Rühle from being appointed State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) as the successor to Günter Ermisch in favor of Ludwig-Holger Pfahl . Kohl was probably dissatisfied with analyzes of himself before his chancellorship; Rühle was considered an "independent head". The Wörner confidante left the CDU in 1987. Rühle was not taken over as head of the planning team by Wörner's successor Rupert Scholz (CDU), but continued to work in the BMVg for several months. From October 1988 to October 1989 he was the coordinator of the “ Federal Security Academy ”, which was being established in 1992 under Admiral a. D. Dieter Wellershoff started work. From October 1989 until early retirement in December 1995 by Defense Minister Volker Rühe (CDU), he was in Munich as the successor to Major General Hartmut Gülzow General Manager of the NATO Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Development and Production Management Agency (NAMMA), the NATO control center for development and production of the German-British-Italian multi- role fighter Tornado . This was combined with the organization responsible for the Eurofighter to form the NATO management agency NETMA .

Rühle publishes a. a. on security issues. Observers consider him “one of the leading experts in the field of international nuclear safety risks”. Articles appeared u. a. in the specialist journal Internationale Politik and in Aus Politik und Zeitgeschichte (APuZ) as well as in daily and weekly newspapers such as the Zeit , the Neue Zürcher Zeitung , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , the Welt , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the Spiegel . He also writes for the World Security Network .

Rühle has been married since 1959 and is the father of political scientist Michael Rühle (* 1959), who works for NATO.

Awards

Fonts (selection)

  • ed. with Hans-Joachim Veen : Socialist and Communist Parties in Western Europe. Publication of the social science research institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . Volume 2: Nordländer (= Uni-Taschenbücher . Vol. 762). Leske + Budrich (UTB), Opladen 1979, ISBN 3-8100-0241-0 .
  • ed. with Meinhard Miegel : Energy policy in the market economy. Result of a conference of the Social Science Research Institute of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung and the Institute for Economic and Social Policy on May 29th, 30th 1979 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg (= Studies on Politics . Vol. 3). Verlag Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-87959-124-5 .
  • ed. with Wolfram F. Hanrieder : In the field of tension in world politics. 30 Years of German Foreign Policy (1949–1979) (= Political Studies . Vol. 6). Verlag Bonn Aktuell, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-87959-121-0 .
  • ed. with Hans-Joachim Veen: Neo-conservatism in the United States and its effects on the Atlantic alliance (= research report by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung . 16). Commissioned by the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung, Knoth, Melle 1982, ISBN 3-88368-044-3 .
  • ed. with Hans-Joachim Veen: Trade unions in the democracies of Western Europe . 2 volumes, Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 1983.
  • Volume 1: France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Greece (= studies on politics . Volume 7). ISBN 3-506-79307-1 .
  • Volume 2: Great Britain, Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Denmark (= studies on politics . Vol. 8). ISBN 3-506-79308-X .
  • Attack on the people's soul. About pacifism to world peace? (= Texts + theses . 175). Fromm, Osnabrück 1984, ISBN 3-7201-5175-1 .
  • with Michael Rühle: SDI. Opportunity, pipe dream, danger? Report Verlag, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1990, ISBN 3-524-89007-5 .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Rühle adopted a new stage for a brilliant career . In: Wehrtechnik 28 (1996), p. 43.
  2. ^ Hans Rühle: The 1964 state elections in Baden-Württemberg . Dissertation, University of Würzburg, 1968, no p.
  3. ↑ Barry M. Blechman, Cathleen S. Fischer: The Silent Partner. West Germany and Arms Control (= An Institute for Defense Analyzes book ). Ballinger Publishing, Cambridge 1988, ISBN 0-88730-320-X , p. 109.
  4. ↑ a b c d Ekkehard Kohrs : head of the minister, early warning system and forward thinker . In: Bonner General-Anzeiger , September 13, 1988, city edition Bonn, p. 2.
  5. ↑ Peter C. Hughes, Theresa M. Sandwith: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. The man behind military science . In: Wolfgang Ischinger (Ed.): Towards Mutual Security. Fifty Years of Mutual Security . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-525-30054-1 , p. 74.
  6. ^ Hans Günter Brauch : SDI - The Political Debate in the Federal Republic of Germany . In the S. (Ed.): Star Wars and European Defense. Implications for Europe: Perception and Assessments . Palgrave Macmillan, New York 1987, ISBN 0-312-30786-1 , pp. 179, 189 ff.
  7. ^ Klaus Gottstein : The Debate on SDI in the Federal Republic of Germany . In: John P. Holdren , Joseph Rotblat (eds.): Strategic Defense and Future of the Arms Race. A Pugwash Symposium . Macmillan Press, Basingstoke 1987, ISBN 978-0-333-44873-1 , p. 157.
  8. ↑ Stefan Fröhlich : "It depends on the Chancellor". Helmut Kohl and German Foreign Policy. Personal regiment and government action from taking office to reunification . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-506-72740-0 , p. 136.
  9. ↑ Stefan Fröhlich : "It depends on the Chancellor". Helmut Kohl and German Foreign Policy. Personal regiment and government action from taking office to reunification . Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-506-72740-0 , p. 131.
  10. ^ A b Hans Leyendecker : Kohl's problem with the purchasability . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 26, 2000, p. 5.
  11. ↑ Hans Rühle . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1987, pp. 268 ( online ).
  12. ↑ Reinhard Meier-Walser , Peter L. Münch-Heubner : Tehran's nuclear strategy and international security. A political science-oriental constellation analysis (= reports & studies . 97). Edited by the Hanns Seidel Foundation , Academy for Politics and Current Affairs, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-88795-419-2 , p. 17 f.
  13. ^ Publications by Hans Rühle at Internationale Politik .
  14. ↑ Hans Rühle: The Foreign Policy of the Reagan Administration . In: From politics and contemporary history , B 32/81, pp. 48–62.
  15. ^ Article by Hans Rühle on Zeit Online. Hans Rühle: The defense mystery . In: Die Zeit , No. 29/2013, p. 11.
  16. ↑ Hans Rühle: Iran and the Time Gain Operation . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung , February 21, 2007, p. 5.
  17. ↑ Hans Rühle: Crisis Focus Middle East. Intentionally ambiguous . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , No. 234, October 2007, p. 89.
  18. ↑ Hans Rühle: From dictator to aardvark . In: Die Welt , December 29, 2003, p. 7.
  19. ↑ Hans Rühle: A bomb for Christmas . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 23, 2008, p. 2.
  20. ↑ Hans Rühle: Flirt with the bomb . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 2010, p. 104-105 ( online ).
  21. ↑ Personnel . In: Sicherheit und Frieden 2 (1984) 4, p. 65.
  22. ↑ Personal details . In: Europäische Wehrkunde 39 (1990) 4, p. 257.
predecessor Office successor
Ministerial Director Walther Stützle Head of the Planning Staff of the Federal Minister of Defense
1982–1988 		Lieutenant General Jörg Schönbohm
personal data
SURNAME Rühle, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and economist
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart