Knud Bartels

Bartels in 2012

Knud Bartels (born April 8, 1952 in Copenhagen ) is a Danish general a. D. From 2009 to 2011 he was in command of the Danish Armed Forces . He was then chairman of the NATO military committee from 2012 to 2015 .

Life

Bartels grew up in a diplomatic family and therefore speaks English and French . He is married and has four children.

In 1977 he was a lieutenant , 1982 Captain 1987 Major 1992 Lieutenant Colonel 1996 Colonel 2001 Brigadier General and in the same year , Major General , 2006 Lieutenant General and 2009 general.

From 2006 to 2009 Bartels was Denmark's military representative in the EU and NATO. After Admiral Tim Sloth Jørgensen had to resign because of the book Jæger - i krig med eliten , whose forged Arabic translation he tried to suppress, Bartels took over his post as head of Forsvar after an interim from Lieutenant General Bjørn I. Bisserup .

On January 2, 2012, he became Chairman of the NATO Military Committee under NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen . He was the first Dane to hold this post since 1954, which he handed over to the Czech General Petr Pavel on June 26, 2015 .

After his retirement, Bartels became an adjunct professor at the Royal Danish Defense Academy .

Awards

• Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog
• Norwegian Order of Merit
• Knight 1st class of the Ordre national du Mérite
• Commander of the Legion of Merit
• Greek Order of Honor

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NATO: General Bartels bids farewell to NATO as General Pavel starts his tenure as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Forsvaret: General Bartels på pension .
3. ↑ Lea Holtze: Bag militærmandens bryske ydre er en sand soldaterkammerat .
4. ^ Frank Hvilsom: Forsvarschefen går af .
5. ^ Forsvarsakademiet: General Knud Bartels - ny adjungeret professor ved Forsvarsakademiet .
6. ↑ Det Norske Kongehus: Tildelinger av og Ordener medaljer .

predecessor	Office	successor
Giampaolo Di Paola	Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 2012–2015	Petr Pavel