Roderich Kiesewetter
Roderich Kiesewetter (born September 11, 1963 in Pfullendorf, Germany) is a politician (CDU), member of the German Bundestag and former Bundeswehr general staff officer.[1]
After passing the German Abitur examination in 1982, Kiesewetter joined the German military artillery forces. From 1983 until 1986 he studied economics and organizational sciences at the Bundeswehr University Munich and the University of Texas at Austin.[2] From 1995 to 1997 he attended the German General Staff Course at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, being awarded the Heusinger prize for the best German graduate.[3]
Having finished the studies in Hamburg, Kiesewetter was posted at the European Council, the NATO Headquarters in Brussels and Mons as well as in the German Ministry of Defence. Besides that he also used to be commander of a German army battalion and took part in different military missions abroad. From 2006 to 2009 he was head of the offices of the then Chiefs of Staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Rainer Schuwirth and Karl-Heinz Lather in Brunssum, Belgium. In 2009 he had a post at the Rapid Reaction Forces Operations Command (Kommando operative Führung Eingreifkräfte), until he was elected member of parliament on October 17, 2009 and left the army as a Colonel. In the bundestag he is now member of the foreign council, vice-president of the sub-council for disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation. In his party he is chairman for disarmament as well, and additionally chairman for civilian crisis prevention.[2]
Since January 2010 he is vice-president of the German Military Reserve Association[4] and member of different associations such as the German-British Society.
References
- ↑ "Stammdaten / Kontakt : Roderich Kiesewetter - CDU/CSU-Fraktion im Deutschen Bundestag: Abgeordnete - A bis Z" [Profile on the website of the CDU/CSU faction in the German parliament] (in German). German CDU/CSU Bundestag faction. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Deutscher Bundestag: Roderich Kiesewetter, CDU" [Official Biography of the German Parliament] (in German). German Bundestag. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ↑ "Preisträger General-Heusinger–Preis" [Heusinger award laureates] (in German). Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ↑ "Präsidium" [Overview of the Board of the Reserve Association] (in German). German Military Reserve Association. Retrieved 2 May 2011.