Michael Busse (Admiral)

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Michael Horst Busse (born January 6, 1959 in Hamburg ) is a German flotilla admiral and since July 1, 2020 “Chairman of the NATO National Reserve Forces Committee” in Bonn .

Military career

After graduating from high school in 1977, Busse joined  the German Armed Forces as an officer candidate for Crew VII / 77 . After training as a naval officer and his first assignment as a ship security officer on the destroyer Hamburg , he completed a mechanical engineering course from 1981 to 1985, which he completed as a graduate engineer (FH). After that, Busse was used in various roles until 1994, most recently as a ship technical officer, on the training ship Germany and on the destroyers Rommel and Lütjens .

After working as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Defense (parliament and cabinet department) in Bonn, Busse was again employed as a ship engineering officer from 1996 to 1997. In 1997 he switched to the personnel department of the German Armed Forces in Cologne before completing his training at the US Naval War College in Newport , Rhode Island , from 2000 to 2001 .

This was followed by two assignments at the Mürwik Naval School in Flensburg , most recently as deputy commander. In 2005, Busse returned to Cologne, where he was initially employed as a department head in the personnel office of the Bundeswehr, then as head of the personnel development department in the Bundeswehr headquarters .

In 2007 Busse moved again to Bonn. Here he completed two assignments as head of department (Fü MI 2 and Fü S / Pers) in the Federal Ministry of Defense, before he was employed as head of the personnel department in the office of the inspector general of the Bundeswehr, Volker Wieker . On July 1, 2014, Busse changed to the post of Head of the Leadership Department in the Armed Forces Base Command in Bonn, which he held until April 2020. His successor was Thomas Lehnen .

Private

Busse is married and has one daughter.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Graduation Exercise. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Graduation Programs. Naval War College June 15, 2001, p. 10 , archived from the original March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 25, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Andreas Steffan: Agenda for attractiveness: first information point opened. (No longer available online.) Bundeswehr, December 18, 2014, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 25, 2015 (with picture, but still as a sea captain).
  3. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions - April 2020 (supplement). In: Bundeswehr. April 28, 2020, accessed April 29, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Buses, Michael
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Busse, Michael Horst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German flotilla admiral
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg