Klaus Wittmann (General)

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Klaus Wittmann (2014)

Klaus Wittmann (born October 26, 1946 in Lübeck ) is a German historian , publicist and brigadier general a. D. the Bundeswehr.

Career

Wittmann obtained his Abitur in Ulm in 1966 . He then joined the Bundeswehr as an officer candidate , and from 1968 he was a career officer . Released from military service, he studied history, political science and sociology at the University of Hamburg from 1971 to 1976 . In 1976 he was there with the dissertation Sweden's economic relations with the Third Reich from 1933 to 1945 for Dr. phil. PhD, the topic was suggested by Rainer Wohlfeil and Hans-Erich Volkmann . He also spent a year doing research at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.

From 1978 to 1980 he completed general staff training (H) at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg. He became a battalion (from 1985 to 1988 of the rocket artillery battalion 112 in Delmenhorst) and brigade commander (from 1992 to 1995 of the tank brigade 14 "Hessischer Löwe" in Neustadt) and did military-political work in the Federal Ministry of Defense (BMVg) and previously as a planning staff officer and head of unit in the International Military Staff (IMS) at NATO Headquarters in Brussels. From 1996 to 2000 head of the military policy department at the German NATO ambassador in Brussels. From 2000 to 2005 he was director of teaching at the command academy of the Bundeswehr and subsequently director of academic planning and policy at the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome. In October 2008 he retired after 42 years of service with the German Armed Forces.

In 2009 he was responsible for the evaluation at the Baltic Defense Academy (BALTDEFCOL) in Tartu. He is currently a Senior Fellow of the Aspen Institute Germany in Berlin and holds a teaching position at the Historical Institute at the University of Potsdam . Wittmann published a. a. in the journal for foreign and security policy , in WeltTrends , in the yearbook Innereführung , in der Welt , in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , in Der Tagesspiegel , in Rheinischer Merkur and in The European .

He is a member of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and was a member of the 10th Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany and the Chamber for Public Responsibility. Wittmann is a member of the board of trustees of the Weimar Triangle and board member of the Petrikirche Riga Organ Foundation .

In August 2019, Wittmann wrote an open letter, expressing his dismay at the engagement of Lieutenant General a. D. Joachim Wundrak expressed for the AfD party .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Sweden's economic relations with the Third Reich, 1933–1945 (= Studies on Modern History . Vol. 23). Oldenbourg, Munich a. a. 1978, ISBN 3-486-48411-7 .

Contributions to edited volumes

  • Defense in the Alliance . In: Uwe Hartmann , Christian Walther (Hrsg.): The soldier in a changing world. A manual for theory and practice . With a foreword by Roman Herzog , Olzog, Munich a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-7892-8250-2 , pp. 90-97.
  • Changed self-image and expanded range of tasks. The way to the new Strategic Concept of NATO . In: Heiner Timmermann , August Pradetto (ed.): NATO on the way into the 21st century (= documents and writings of the European Academy Otzenhausen . Vol. 104). Lit, Münster u. a. 2002, ISBN 3-8258-6314-X , pp. 103-121.
  • Professional army or conscription - what does the Bundeswehr need? . In: Joachim Krause , Jan C. Irlenkaeuser (Ed.): Bundeswehr - the next 50 years. Requirements for German armed forces in the 21st century . Budrich, Opladen 2006, ISBN 3-86649-006-2 , pp. 75-92.
  • Transformation and requirement profile of the officer . In: Wilfried Gerhard, Hans-Joachim Reeb (Hrsg.): Transformation of the armed forces in the context of security-political, social and organizational changes (= series of publications of the Scientific Forum for International Security . Vol. 25). Edition Temmen, Bremen 2007, ISBN 978-3-86108-882-0 , pp. 139-146.
  • Plea for the preservation of general conscription . In: Andreas Ahammer, Stephan Nachtigall (Hrsg.): Conscription - Legitimate Child of Democracy (= Science & Security . Vol. 7). BWV, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-8305-1820-4 , pp. 230-239.
  • Security Policy in and for the Baltic States . In: Eckart D. Stratenschulte (Ed.): The European Sea. The Baltic Sea as an area of ​​action (= Europe analyzes . Vol. 1). BWV, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-8305-1873-0 , pp. 103-121.
  • NATO's Genesis and Adaptation. From Washington to Chicago . In: Graeme P. Herdand, John Kriendler (Ed.): Understanding NATO in the 21st Century. Alliance Strategies, Security and Global Governance (= Contemporary Security Studies ). Routledge, New York 2014, ISBN 978-0-415-43633-5 , pp. 16-32.
  • European responsibility and “European army” . In: Fabian Forster, Sascha Vugrin, Leonard Wessendorff (Ed.): The age of the Einsatzarmee. Challenges for law and ethics (= science & security . Vol. 8). BWV, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-8305-3380-1 , pp. 194-209.
  • Genscher and the NATO double decision . In: Kerstin Brauckhoff, Irmgard Schwaetzer (ed.): Hans-Dietrich Genscher's foreign policy (= foreign policy actors ). Springer VS, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-06650-5 , pp. 141-165.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wittmann, Klaus ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Website of the Institute for Technology-Theology-Natural Sciences , accessed on May 11, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ttn-institut.de
  2. ^ Klaus Wittmann: Sweden's economic relations with the Third Reich, 1933–1945 . Munich 1978, p. 5.
  3. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. BMVg press and information staff, October 6, 2008, archived from the original on October 1, 2009 ; Retrieved April 4, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Klaus Wittmann: Open letter. (PDF; 221 kB) In: FAZ. August 9, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Wittmann, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brigadier general
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lübeck