Weizsäcker Commission
The Weizsäcker Commission (formally the Commission "on the Future of the Bundeswehr" ) one was - from the federal government under Gerhard Schröder - appointed commission headed by the former German President Richard von Weizsacker made the proposals on the future structure of the Bundeswehr. She worked from May 1999 to May 2000.
Tasks of the Commission
The independent commission should examine Germany's security policy risks and interests and make recommendations on how the Bundeswehr could carry out its future tasks within the framework of a comprehensive security and defense policy.
The main task of the commission was to draft proposals for the basic structures of the armed forces. The basis of the work of the commission formed the German integration into NATO , the strengthening of the foreign and security policy capabilities of the European Union as well as the support of the United Nations , the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe and the programs for partnership and cooperation by Germany.
To this end, extensive analyzes of the form of service, personnel, leadership, organization, equipment, training and finances were made. The main task of the commission was to form an opinion as to which military capabilities Germany should maintain, strengthen or acquire for its foreign and security policy.
Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping appointed the former Federal President as chairman of the commission . D. Richard von Weizsäcker . In addition to Weizsäcker, the commission included 19 other members from various areas of society. The Commission presented its report on 23 May 2000.
Members of the Commission
- Chairman of the commission: Richard von Weizsäcker (former Federal President)
- Deputy Chairman: Peter Heinrich Carstens (retired General, former Chief of Staff SHAPE )
- Deputy Chairman: Theo Sommer (editor of the weekly newspaper " Die Zeit ")
- Christian Bernzen (Lawyer, Vice President of the Central Committee of German Catholics )
- Christoph Bertram (Vice President of the Science and Politics Foundation )
- Ignatz Bubis (Chairman of the Central Council of Jews in Germany ), died on August 13, 1999
- Eckhard Cordes (Member of the Board of Management of Daimler Chrysler AG)
- Manfred Eisele (retired Major General, former Assistant Secretary General of the United Nations )
- Helga Haftendorn (political scientist, Free University of Berlin )
- Helge Hansen (retired General, former Commander in Chief Allied Forces Central Europe )
- Agnes Hürland-Büning ( former Parliamentary State Secretary; collaboration until January 20, 2000)
- Knut Ipsen (Ruhr University Bochum, constitutional and international law, President of the German Red Cross )
- Walter Kromm ( senior general practitioner, general practitioner)
- Hermann Lutz (former federal chairman of the police union )
- Arno Mahlert (member of the management of the Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH publishing group )
- Lothar de Maizière (lawyer, former Prime Minister of the GDR )
- Harald Müller (Executive Board Member of the Hessian Foundation for Peace and Conflict Research )
- Jürgen Schmude ( President of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany, former Federal Minister)
- Waltraud Schoppe (former member of the German Bundestag , former minister)
- Richard Schröder (philosopher and theologian, Humboldt University Berlin )
- Peter Steinbach (political scientist and historian, Free University of Berlin)
Web links
- Weizsäcker Commission "Future of the Bundeswehr" presents its concept
- Site of the Peace Office on the topic
- Site of the Limburg Reservist Comradeship on the subject
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- ^ Page of the Limburg Reservist Comradeship ( Memento from January 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Common security and the future of the Bundeswehr ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )