Lennart Souchon

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Lennart Souchon

Lennart Souchon (* 1942 in Berlin ) is a German military theorist and strategist as well as electrical engineer and former naval officer ( captain at sea a. D.). From 1999 to 2018 he was head of the International Clausewitz Center (ICZ) at the command academy of the German Armed Forces and has been honorary professor in the international politics course at the University of Potsdam since 2003 . In 2010 he founded the Clausewitz Network for Strategic Studies (CNSS).

Life

Souchon joined the German Navy in 1962 as an officer candidate ( Crew IV / 62) . After his training as a naval officer he was used as a watch officer on speedboats, as a locating officer on the guided missile destroyer Mölders and as an electronics officer on the destroyer Bavaria .

From 1970 to 1975 he studied electrical engineering at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) in Monterey, California ( BSEE 1972 and MSEE 1973) and obtained a Ph.D. in 1975 from Sydney R. Parker. (Work: Structures, Analysis and Design of N-dimensional Recursive Digital Filters ). Then he was head of an electronics and weapons squadron at the Naval Aviation Squadron 2 . In 1979 he completed the admiralty staff course at the command academy of the Bundeswehr (FüAkBw) in Hamburg.

He then became head of the New Weapon Systems Department on the staff of the Naval Aviation Division in Kiel. Souchon then switched to the naval command staff (Fü M) in Bonn as a consultant . In 1986 he became deputy commander of the Mürwik Naval School (MSM) in Flensburg - Mürwik and at the same time commander of the training group. From 1988 he taught as a lecturer for security policy at the FüAkBw. From 1992 to 2004 he was head of the German-Polish officers' seminar for the European Academy Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in Waren and the Academy for National Defense (AON). In 1992 he also became head of studies for international politics at the Federal Academy for Security Policy (BAKS) in Bonn. From 1999 to 2001 he headed the security policy and strategy department at FüAkBw and the newly founded International Clausewitz Center (ICZ) there. His last rank was a sea captain a. D.

From 1993 he was employed as a lecturer at the University of Potsdam . In addition, from 2002 to 2004 he held another teaching position with Suzanne S. Schüttemeyer , Department of Government Studies and Policy Research at the Institute for Political Science at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . In 2003 he was appointed honorary professor at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences in Potsdam . There he teaches strategic studies (and for the Prussian military theorist General Carl von Clausewitz ) at Harald Fuhr's chair for international politics .

In 2010 he co-founded the Clausewitz Network for Strategic Studies (CNSS). In addition, he has been a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London since 1975 and of the Clausewitz Society since 1981 , on whose board (assessor from 1983 to 1987) and advisory board he has been an honorary member. Most of his works are published by ES Mittler & Sohn . He is also the editor of numerous publications for the BAKS and the Clausewitz information .

Fonts (selection)

Monographs

  • Strategy in the 21st Century. Springer International Publishing, Basel 2020, ISBN 978-3-030-46027-3 .
  • Carl von Clausewitz. Strategy in the 21st Century . Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8132-0939-6 .
  • New German security policy . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1990, ISBN 3-8132-0352-2 .
  • The renaissance of Europe. European security policy. An international model . 2nd, revised edition. Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-8132-0442-1 .

Editorships

  • with Hans-Adolf Jacobsen : W sluzbie pokoju. Bundeswehra 1955–1993 [in the service of peacekeeping]. Translated by Cezary Eugeniusz Kröl, Daniel Luliriski and Pawel Seydak. Bellona, ​​Warsaw 1993, ISBN 81-11-08261-8 .
  • with Charles L. Barry: Security Architecture for Europe. Based on a US-German workshop co-sponsored by the Institute for National Strategic Studies and the Federal College for Security Policy Studies . National Defense University Press, Washington, DC 1994.
  • World economy and security 1993 (= series of publications on the new security policy , volume 4). Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-8132-0449-9 .
  • International law and security (= series of publications on the new security policy , Volume 5). Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-8132-0450-2 .
  • with Martin Potthoff: The security situation in the Mediterranean region (= series of publications on the new security policy , Volume 6). Mittler, Berlin a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-8132-0460-X .
  • with Kai Hirschmann: The German-Polish cooperation in questions of security policy. Building on the Franco-German experience. Discussion papers of the 1st German-Polish workshop from 28. – 30. November 1994 in Berlin (= series of publications on the new security policy , volume 11). Mittler, Hamburg a. a. 1995, ISBN 3-8132-0466-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Lennart Souchon: Forward defense in the Baltic Sea and in the Atlantic . In: Europäische Wehrkunde 34 (1985) 6, pp. 321–326. (Biographical information about the author)
personal data
SURNAME Souchon, Lennart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German military theorist, strategist, naval officer and electrical engineer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin