Sigurd Hess

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Sigurd Hess (2009)

Sigurd F. Hess (born February 26, 1938 in Osterode i. Ostpr. , † June 14, 2018 in Bonn ) was a German naval officer. As a specialist in information and communication , he was most recently rear admiral . Since his retirement he has been involved in security policy .

Life

Hess joined the German Navy with Crew IX / 57 . From 1963 he went through a programmer training with the United States Navy . From 1966 to 1970 he studied electrical engineering , mathematics and physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California . There he was awarded a Ph.D. PhD . He received various assignments on board, including as commander of the Tiger speed boat (P 6063) and the guided missile destroyer Mölders . He had staff assignments at the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe , in the Federal Ministry of Defense and in the fleet command . From 1989 to 1991 he was Head of Staff Department VII (Bundeswehr Command Services) in the command staff of the armed forces . As director of Operation Friendship , he looked after the American and English military families during the Second Gulf War . From 1991 to 1993 he was Head of Telecommunication and Information Systems ( ACOS CIS ) at SHAPE in Mons ( Belgium ). He reorganized the main department and the nine sub-organizations. Afterwards he was chief of staff at Allied Command Baltic Approaches for five years , which he also restructured. After 41 years of service in the German Armed Forces, he was retired on March 31, 1998. He then spent two years as Chief Executive Officer of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). In 2001 he founded Intermatik Consulting . From 2001 to 2007 he headed the Bonn working group of the German Atlantic Society . In 2008/09 he advised the European Commission on the safety of sea ​​routes in the Gulf of Aden and in the Strait of Malacca . Study visits took him to Malaysia , Singapore , Indonesia , Saudi Arabia , Yemen and Djibouti . He retired in Rheinbach . After a short, serious illness, he died at the age of 80 in the Johanniter Hospital in Bonn.

Honorary positions

Publications

  • Maritime security - Countering terrorism in national waters and on the high seas .
  • Intelligence Cooperation in Europe - 1990 to the Present .
  • Arms Reduction and Intelligence Cooperation - A Historical View .
  • Information Security and Protection of Critical Infrastructure .
  • When computers learned to go to sea .
  • with Guntram Schulze-Wegener , Heinrich Walle (Hrsg.): Faszination See. 50 years of the German Navy . On behalf of the German Marine Institute, ES Mittler & Sohn, Hamburg u. a. 2005, ISBN 3-8132-0838-9 .
  • with Guntram Schulze-Wegener, Heinrich Walle, Dieter Stockfisch (eds.): 50 years of the German Navy in pictures . Report Verlag, Bonn 2006, ISBN 978-3-932385-25-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Honorary Chairman Rear Admiral ret. Dr. Sigurd Hess has passed away (DGSM)
  2. ↑ Thesis: Limit cycle oscillations in digital filters .
  3. ↑ Intermatik Consulting
  4. ^ Reports of the new board. German Society for Shipping and Naval History, archived from the original on March 20, 2014 ; accessed on October 30, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Hess, Sigurd
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Sigurd Friedrich Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rear admiral
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Osterode in East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH June 14, 2018
Place of death Bonn