Helmut W. Ganser

Helmut W. Ganser (* 1948 in Densborn ) is a retired German Brigadier General . D.

Ganser grew up in Gerolstein from 1951 . He graduated from the St. Matthias-Gymnasium Gerolstein in 1967 and then did military service . From 1977 and 1983 he studied psychology and political science at the University of Hamburg and graduated with a diploma in psychology and a diploma in political science. In 1980 Ganser, then with the rank of captain , published his first book Technocrats in Uniform. The internal crisis of the Bundeswehr out. From 1985 to 1987 general staff training took place in the command academy of the Bundeswehr . From 1992 Ganser was active in the command staff of the armed forces . In the Arms Control Unit and the OSCE , he acted as military advisor on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict . From the mid-1990s, Ganser worked for four years as a military advisor to the German ambassador at the UN mission in New York . From 2001 he worked in the Federal Ministry of Defense, Deputy Head of the Military Policy Department and Special Representative for International Relations. In 2004 he was promoted to Brigadier General and was then employed as Head of Military Policy at the German NATO mission in Brussels. Ganser also worked as a lecturer at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In 2008 Ganser retired.

Publications

• 1980: technocrats in uniform. The internal crisis of the Bundeswehr, Rowohlt Verlag , ISBN 978-3-499-14525-4 (editor)
• 2000: Security-political risks and strategies in the 21st century and European capacity to act (together with Herbert Kraus), Management Academy of the Bundeswehr, Director of Teaching

Web links

• Helmut W. Ganser , Gunda Werner Institute
• Helmut W. Ganser , Ipg journal

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Children of the Eifel - Helmut W. Ganser: General and Sicherheitsstratege from Gerolstein , Eifel newspaper, 23 August 2017
2. ↑ Klaus Pokatzky: Soldiers with civil courage , Die Zeit , 36/1980, August 29, 1980