Klaus Naumann
Klaus Naumann (born in Munich, 25 May 1939) is one of three partners at the European Advisory Group, a defence industry and neoconservative connected, Berlin based consulting group. Before retirement he was a soldier in the German military, ending his career in 1999. He was elected as the Chairman of the North Atlantic Military Committee by the Chiefs of Defence of NATO at their December 1994 meeting, General Naumann assumed the appointment on 14 February 1996.
Early life
Naumann and joined the Bundeswehr after his secondary school graduation in 1958. Commissioned a second lieutenant in the Artillery his further military education includes attendance in 13th Army General Staff Officer Training Course at the Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Hamburg, and the 1983 course at the Royal College of Defence Studies, London.[1] His later military career included promotion to Brigadier General on 1 April 1986, Deputy Chief of Staff (Planning), and a two star assignment as Deputy Chief of Staff (Politico-military affairs and operations) both at Armed Forces Staff, MOD Bonn; Commanding General of I Corps in Münster from where he was moved to the position of Chief of Staff, Federal Armed Forces, on 1 October 1991. He was promoted to Four Star General on that day and held that position until 06 February 1996.[2]
Affiliations
After retirement in May 1999: Council of the IISS, London, | the ICRC Advisory Board, | the Board of the GCSP, Geneva, | Vice-President of the ATA | Vice-President RUSI, | President of the Clausewitz Gesellschaft |Co-President of the British-German Officers Association | member of the Brahimi Commission (which looked into reform options for UN Peacekeeping operations) | at the invitation of the Canadian Government, member of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty which published its report "The Responsibility to Protect" in late fall 2001 | 2004 elected Chairman of the supervisory board of Odenwald-Werke Rittersbach (OWR) | member of the board of THALES, Paris| In fall 2006 elected to serve as a member of the Senate of the German National Foundation (Deutsche Nationalstiftung) | 2006 chairman of the International Advisory Board of ICXT, an American high-tech company focused on homeland security | EAG[3]|
Other roles
International Institute for Counter-Terrorism, conference speaker 2005.[4]
Awards
- 2004 honorary doctorate of the Miklos Zrinyi University, Budapest.
Publications
Klaus Naumann The Role of the Military in Fighting Terrorism - A European View Talk at the ITC Conference at Herzliya, Israel on 12 September 2005.
Notes
- ↑ EAG General a.D. Dr. h.c. Klaus Naumann, accessed 3 March 2009
- ↑ EAG General a.D. Dr. h.c. Klaus Naumann, accessed 3 March 2009
- ↑ EAG General a.D. Dr. h.c. Klaus Naumann, accessed 3 March 2009
- ↑ Klaus Naumann The Role of the Military in Fighting Terrorism - A European View Talk at the ITC Conference at Herzliya, Israel on 12 September 2005.
