Markus Krause-Traudes

Markus Krause-Traudes

Markus Krause-Traudes (born December 27, 1957 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a flotilla admiral a. D. of the German Navy .

Military career

Training and first uses

Krause-Traudes joined the Navy in 1976. After training as an officer and first assignments as an officer on watch on board Schnellboot Zobel , he studied Naval Weapons Engineering from 1980 with the Royal Navy in Plymouth . From 1983 to 1986 he was in command of the Schnellboot S 42 Iltis, from 1987 to 1989 he was a command system officer and ship electronics officer on the destroyers Rommel and Mölders .

Service as a staff officer

After being promoted to corvette captain , Krause-Traudes took command of the S 74 Nerz speedboat in 1990. After completing the 33rd Admiralty Staff Training Course (1991 to 1993) at the Command Academy of the Federal Armed Forces , Hamburg , he gained his first ministerial experience as a consultant in the command staff of the armed forces . From 1994 Krause-Traudes was first officer , from 1995 commander of the guided missile destroyer Rommel. In 1997 he became a consultant for military aspects of security policy in the Federal Chancellery . From summer 2000, the NATO task force STANAVFORLANT was coordinated as Chief of Staff . Another ministerial assignment followed in the summer of 2001 as a consultant / liaison officer in Berlin for the Inspector of the Armed Forces Base in the headquarters of the Armed Forces Base. In 2003 he was promoted to sea captain as a lecturer in the marine command and control department at the command academy of the German Armed Forces and was entrusted with the development of teaching content for the armed forces. After a time as Head of the Training and Exercises Department (J7) in the Operative Leadership Action Forces Command , Ulm , from the end of 2005, he became Head of the Conceptual Policy Issues / International Cooperation Department in the Navy Management Staff in the summer of 2008 , then Head of the Sea Future Development Department and Cross Section in the Planning Department BMVg.

Service as an admiral

In 2012, Krause-Traudes were assigned the duties of Deputy Chief of Operations in the Operational Leadership Command . Promoted to Flotilla Admiral, he was Force Commander-Designate (Force Commander) of the EU Battlegroup II / 2012 from July to December 2012 , and from January to June 2013 Deputy Operations Commander-Designate of the EU Battlegroup I / 2013. With commissioning of the multinational In the summer of 2013, Krause-Traudes took on the duties of the Deputy Head of the Support Staff until October 2016. After serving in the Department of Operations in the Marine Command , Rostock from July 2017 to December 2019 , he was retired at the beginning of 2020.

Badge of honor

• Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr in gold
• NATO medal for participation in the embargo control against the former Yugoslavia
• UN medal for participation in the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ p. 42 polecat. Freundeskreis Schnellboot und Korvetten e. V., accessed on October 26, 2015 . 
2. ↑ page 74 Mink. Freundeskreis Schnellboot und Korvetten e. V., accessed on October 26, 2015 . 
3. ↑ The commander of D187. Bordgemeinschaft D 187 Destroyer Rommel, accessed on October 26, 2015 (private website). 
4. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (PDF) (No longer available online.) BMVg Press and Information Office, May 30, 2012, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved October 26, 2015 . 
5. ↑ Ulm Bundeswehr Command is ready for EU operations. (No longer available online.) Schwäbische Zeitung, June 8, 2012, archived from the original on February 11, 2013 ; Retrieved October 26, 2015 . 
6. ↑ Troop service. Website of the Austrian Armed Forces, accessed on October 20, 2012 . 
7. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. (PDF; 32 kB) (No longer available online.) BMVg Press and Information Office, July 31, 2013, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 26, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  
8. ↑ Personnel changes in top military and civilian positions. BMVg Press and Information Office, December 18, 2019, accessed on January 20, 2020 .