NATO Military Committee
The NATO Military Committee ( English Military Committee ; MC ) is the highest military authority of NATO . He supports the decision-making processes of the civilian leadership - the North Atlantic Council and the Nuclear Planning Group (NPG) - in military matters.
Tasks and composition
The military committee takes on the principle of preparation and gives advice on military guidelines and the strategy of NATO. The Committee is responsible for advising the NATO political authorities on matters relating to the defense of NATO territory or NATO operations. It is made up of officers from NATO member states who serve as military representatives of their nations at NATO and thus represent the chiefs of staff of their armed forces. Iceland , which has no armed forces , sends a civilian representative.
management
The Chairman of the Military Committee conducts the day-to-day business of the Committee and is thus the highest military authority in NATO. In addition, the chairman is the spokesman and representative of the committee and is thus also the highest military spokesman for NATO. He is nominated by the Chiefs of Staff of the NATO member states and appointed for a term of three years. The chairman draws his authority from the committee and is also responsible to it. He serves as a representative of the committee, for example before the North Atlantic Council and the nuclear planning group. He also chairs all committee meetings. In his absence, his deputy, the Deputy Chairman of the Military Committee , takes over his duties. Another role of the chairman is participation in the Academic Board of the NATO Defense College in Rome .
The current chairman is the British Air Marshal Sir Stuart Peach , who took over this position in June 2018 from the Czech General Petr Pavel .
From 1958 to 1963 there were two types of chairmanship. On the one hand with the respective chief of staff of the member nation, which was entrusted with the leadership, and in a transitional period until 1963 with permanent representatives. In December 1963, the two variants were combined in the person of Adolf Heusinger .
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German military representatives
| German military representatives | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Rank | Surname | Beginning of the term of office | Term expires |
| Vice admiral | Klaus-Michael Nelte | 2019 | constantly |
| Lieutenant General | Hans-Werner Wiermann | 2015 | 2019 |
| Lieutenant General | Markus Bentler | 2012 | 2015 |
| Lieutenant General | Hans-Lothar Domröse | 2011 | 2012 |
| Lieutenant General | Roland Kather | 2010 | 2011 |
| Lieutenant General | Jürgen Bornemann | 2008 | 2010 |
| Vice admiral | Frank Ropers | 2006 | 2008 |
| Lieutenant General | Klaus Olshausen | 2002 | 2006 |
| Lieutenant General | Klaus Wiesmann | 1995 | 2000 |
| Lieutenant General | Jörn Söder | 1992 | 1995 |
| Lieutenant General | Rolf Hüttel | 1989 | 1992 |
| Lieutenant General | Hans-Peter Tandecki | 1984 | 1989 |
| Lieutenant General | Ernst-Dieter Bernhard | 1980 | 1984 |
| Lieutenant General | Wolfgang Altenburg | 1978 | 1980 |
| Lieutenant General | Jürgen Brandt | 1978 | 1978 |
| Vice admiral | Herbert Trebesch | 1976 | 1978 |
| Lieutenant General | Günther Rall | 1974 | 1975 |
| Lieutenant General | Peter from Butler | 1970 | 1974 |
| Lieutenant General | Hellmuth Hauser | 1968 | 1970 |
| Lieutenant General | Gerhard Wessel | 1963 | 1968 |
| Lieutenant General | Johannes Steinhoff | 1960 | 1963 |
| Brigadier General | Hans-Georg von Tempelhoff | 1956 | 1960 |
Web links
- Official site (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ List of military representatives (English)
- ^ NATO: Military Committee. NATO, April 7, 2016, accessed July 5, 2016 .
- ↑ General Bartels bids farewell to NATO as General Pavel starts his tenure as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee. In: NATO. June 26, 2015, accessed July 11, 2015 .