Horst-Heinrich Brauss

Horst-Heinrich Reinhard Brauß (born May 18, 1953 in Heidelberg ) is a Lieutenant General a. D. of the Army of the Armed Forces and from October 2013 to July 2018 Assistant Secretary General of NATO 's Defense Policy and Force Planning (Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning) in the International Staff of NATO in Brussels.

Military career

Training and first uses

Brauss joined the Bundeswehr in July 1972 in Wildflecken and was trained as a fire control and observation officer in the 121 field artillery battalion in Tauberbischofsheim . From 1974 to 1978 he studied education and modern history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich and graduated as a qualified pedagogue . This was followed by assignments as an observation officer and battery chief in the field artillery battalion 41 in Regensburg . From 1981 to 1984 Brauss was the first full-time youth officer of the 4th Panzer Grenadier Division , also in Regensburg.

Service as a staff officer

From 1984 to 1986, Brauß completed general staff training for the army at the command academy of the German Armed Forces in Hamburg . In preparation for the Franco-German military exercise in 1987, Brauß was appointed General Staff Officer for example " Kecker Spatz / Moineau Hardi" . b. V. (for special use) deployed in the staff of the II Corps in Ulm . From October 1987 to the beginning of 1990 he served as department head for operations and training (G3) in the headquarters of Heimatschutzbrigade 56 in Neuburg an der Donau . This was followed by a position as secretary of the consilium of the command academy of the Bundeswehr under Werner von Scheven and Klaus Reinhardt . Brauss then became the commander of the 165 tank artillery battalion in Wentorf . From 1992 to 1997 he was a consultant and then working area manager in the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense Volker Rühe in the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn under Ulrich Weisser . This was followed by a position as head of department in the staff of the German military representative in the military committee (MC) of NATO and the EU / WEU under Klaus Wiesmann , followed by Klaus Olshausen , in Brussels .

Tasks in the general rank

In the spring of 2001, Brauss became the commander of Panzerbrigade 42 “Brandenburg” in Potsdam and from June to December 2002 he was Chief of Staff at the headquarters of the Stabilization Force (SFOR) of NATO in Sarajevo / Bosnia and Herzegovina. In April 2004 he became Assistant Chief of Staff and Head of the Operations / Exercises Division in the European Union Military Staff in Brussels and from 2005 first Director of the then newly established Civil-Military Cell and the EU Operations Center , also in the EU Military Staff before From September 2007 he took over the post of Deputy Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Defense Policy and Force Planning on NATO's International Staff in Brussels.

In October 2013 Brauss was promoted to lieutenant general.

Until July 2018, he was Assistant Secretary General of NATO for Defense Policy and Force Planning and, at the same time, Head of the Defense Policy and Planning Division on NATO's International Staff and Chairman of the Defense Policy and Planning Committee of the North Atlantic Council. He was responsible for preparing the defense aspects of the NATO summits in Wales in 2014, Warsaw in 2016 and Brussels in 2018.

He then became a Senior Associate Fellower of the German Society for Foreign Policy . He works in the fields of European security and defense, NATO development and cooperation between NATO and the EU .

In the context of nuclear participation , he highlighted the American nuclear weapons in Europe as an important element of NATO's strategy. He made it clear that the responsible government - including the German - always decides on the use of a European fighter aircraft with US nuclear weapons.

Calls

• June to December 2002: Chief of Staff SFOR in Sarajevo , Bosnia and Herzegovina

Private

Brauss is married, of Protestant denomination and has three grown sons.

literature

• Mönch Verlagsgesellschaft (ed.): Handbook of the Bundeswehr and the Defense Industry 2009 . Mönch Verlagsgesellschaft, Bonn 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heinrich Brauss - Assistant Secretary General for Defense Policy and Planning. NATO, October 16, 2013, accessed June 22, 2015 . 
2. ↑ Heinrich Brauss American nuclear weapons in Europe - an important element of the NATO strategy , magazine ZU GLEICH 1/2020, p. 7 ff