Werner Schowe

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Werner Schowe (* 1944 ) is a German Brigadier General a. D.

Schowe studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1967 to 1974 and worked for the German Armed Forces from 1974 , where he was a technical officer in the telecommunications sector B / telecommunications regiment 71 (Dannenberg / Elbe) from 1976. Since 1977 he was in the General Staff Service responsible for the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In 1979 he became head of telecommunications sector E in the 72 telecommunications regiment in Wunsiedel.

In 1981 Schowe took over the position of General Staff Officer for the deployment and organization of command services of the Air Force in the Air Force Command Service in Cologne . In 1983 he became a consultant in the Air Force Command (for telecommunications and electronic reconnaissance) at the Federal Ministry of Defense in Bonn . In this ministry he had been working as a staff officer at the head of the planning team since 1986 .

In 1990 Schowe became a course director at the command academy of the Bundeswehr in Hamburg. In 1992 he became the commander of telecommunications area 72 in Feuchtwangen . In 1993 he was a participant in the NATO Defense College in Rome . In 1994 he took over the post of deputy commander and chief of staff at the command of the 1st Air Force Division in Karlsruhe .

After switching to the Federal Intelligence Service in 1997, Schowe became a sub-department head in Munich , and in 1999 - department head of the BND telecommunications intelligence . From 2003 to 2005 he was Vice President for Military Affairs in the BND.

Werner Schowe is currently active as a member of the advisory board of the German Intelligence Forum (GKND) based in Berlin.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "New Vice at the BND" on Focus-Online from December 8, 2003 ; accessed on March 14, 2010
  2. ↑ Hans Georg: “'Discussion group' with prominent cast; Lobbying for secret services "; Online Flyer No. 69 from November 7, 2006 on Neue Rheinische Zeitung Online ; accessed on March 14, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Schowe, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German brigadier general
DATE OF BIRTH 1944