Karl-Heinz Kamp (political scientist)

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Karl-Heinz Kamp (born June 21, 1957 in Bonn ) is a German political scientist . From 2015 to 2019 he was President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy . Since October 2019 he has been the Special Representative of the Political Director at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Berlin.

Life

Karl-Heinz Kamp studied history and social sciences at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn from 1980 to 1985 . Following the state examination , he received a security policy scholarship from 1986 to 1988 at the research institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Bonn. In 1988 he was a Research Fellow at the Center for Science and International Affairs at the John F. Kennedy School, Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In 1993 he was at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg with a thesis on nuclear weapons The role of short-range under the "Overall Strategic Concept for the Defense of the NATO Area" (MC 14/3) to Dr. rer. pole. PhD .

From 1988 he was a research assistant at the research institute, from 1992 to 2000 head of the foreign and security policy department and from 2000 to 2003 head of the "Planning and Policy Issues" department of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in Sankt Augustin near Bonn. During this time he was seconded to the Foreign Office's planning staff as a security policy officer (1997–1998). From 2003 to 2007 Kamp was the coordinator of security policy for the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung. In 2007 Kamp moved to the NATO Defense College , Rome, as Research Director . He then worked from 2013 to 2015 as Director of Development at the Federal Academy for Security Policy in Berlin. On October 1, 2015, he took over the management of the Academy as President.

In 1999 he was given a teaching position at the Institute for Political Science at the University of Cologne , and he was also a visiting professor at the NATO Defense College in Rome and at the Geneva Center for Security Policy . From 2005 to 2013 he was a member of the advisory board of the Federal Academy for Security Policy and in 2009 a consultant in the “NATO Group of Experts on the New Strategic Concept”, appointed by its chairman, Madeleine Albright , former US Secretary of State. He is also u. a. Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, the German Society for Foreign Policy, the German Atlantic Society and the Working Group for International Politics and Security . He is a member of various advisory boards. Kamp is the author of over 400 specialist articles on foreign and security policy and is also co-editor of the magazine Sirius, which has been published since 2017 . Journal for Strategic Analysis .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Farewell greetings from the President. Retrieved October 1, 2019 .
  2. ^ Karl-Heinz Kamp: The role of short-range nuclear weapons in the context of the "Overall Strategic Concept for the Defense of the NATO Area" (MC 14/3) . Hamburg 1993, DNB  940134438 .
personal data
SURNAME Kamp, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn