Harald Kujat
Harald Kujat ( born March 1, 1942 in Mielke ( ninino ), Circle Obornik, Warta country today in the rural community Ryczywół in the Polish province of Greater Poland ) is a German retired General the Air Force. He was from 2000 to 2002 the 13th Chief of Staff of the Bundeswehr, and thus the highest officer of the Bundeswehr. Then he held from 2002 to 2005 the chair of the Military Committee of NATO.
Life
Growing up is Kujat in Kiel and he began in 1959 after graduating from high school training in the Air Force. In 1962 he was awarded a Medal of the Senate of the Hanseatic City of Hamburg for use during the floods in the Hanseatic city. Kujat is married and has three children.
Military career
Training and first uses
On October 29, 1965 Kujat was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. He completed flight training and was an instructor for non-commissioned officers, was platoon leader and deputy company commander and staff officer (S 1). During this time he was promoted to Lieutenant in January 1971 and to captain in April 1968.
Service as a staff officer
From 1972 to 1975 Kujat aide was the Federal Minister of Defence Georg Leber, SPD, in Bonn. In 1974 he was appointed Major. From 1975 to 1977 he completed the 20th General Staff Course at the Air Force Staff College in Hamburg, serving from 1977 as a staff officer and aide to the Federal Minister of Defence Hans Apel in Bonn. In the same year Kujat Department Head (A 3a) Aviation Support Group Command North in Münster. From 1978 to 1980 he was a speaker ( Surgical principles air force ) in the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces ( FüS ) of the Federal Ministry of Defence in Bonn. On April 1, 1979, he was promoted to be the rank of lieutenant colonel. Another use in Bonn was a speaker for Security Policy and Strategy at the Federal Chancellery. In 1985 he again took over a military command, namely, the Second Battalion of the Air Force Training Regiment 1 in Appen near Pinneberg.
1988 graduated Kujat then the 72 course of the NATO Defense College in Rome, Italy. Then he was promoted to colonel in October 1988. 1989 Kujat became the Department Head ( NATO troops planning, Air Force ) appointed by the German Military Representative to the NATO Military Committee in Brussels. After a year in 1990 he was Head of Unit in the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces, responsible for nuclear and global arms control, in Bonn.
Service in the rank of general
From 1992 to 1995, appointed on 20 September 1992 Brigadier General, Kujat took over the post of chief of staff and deputy of the German Military Representative to NATO Military Committee in Brussels, at that time Lieutenant-General Jörn Söder.
Back in Germany Kujat was appointed on 1 April 1995 to Major General and assumed the post of Staff Department Head III for military policy in the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces in the Bonn Defence. Subsequently, he took over in 1996 the management of the IFOR Coordination Centre (ICC ) at NATO Headquarters (SHAPE) in Mons, Belgium. In October 1996, he eventually became deputy director in the International Military Staff (IMS ) to NATO in Brussels.
On 10 November 1998 Kujat was appointed Lieutenant-General and Minister of Defence Rudolf Sharping (SPD ) appointed in January 1999 as head of the Policy Planning Staff of the Federal Minister of Defence. In this capacity, he advised the Minister on all aspects of long-term military and defense planning department. In this position, he was open to discussion, since he was accused in the Army, the planning staff was the " kitchen cabinet" of Rudolf Sharping and become used to important planning ( particularly in relation to conscription and the future design of the Federal Armed Forces) of the lower resistance due to perform in the actual military leaders past and to dismantle the inspector General so. Following the resignation of the Inspector General Hans- Peter von Kirchbach Kujat was appointed on 1 June 2000 even as General Inspector of the Armed Forces and thus to the highest-ranking German soldiers. In July 2000, the transport was followed by a general. With the re-election of Chancellor Gerhard Schröder ( SPD) in 2002, Peter Struck ( SPD) became the new Minister of Defense and Kujat was replaced by General Wolfgang Schneiderhan, who had also directed the planning staff, as Inspector General. In 2002 he assumed the post of Chairman of the Military Committee of NATO in Brussels. On 16 June 2005 Kujat was finally adopted in Berlin with a grand tattoo by Defence Minister Struck in retirement.
Currently Kujat is Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium.
Medals and Decorations
His medals and decorations include, inter alia: the Federal Cross of Merit, the Bundeswehr Cross of Honour in Gold, the Medal of Merit of the Hamburg Senate, the Commander's Cross of the French Legion of Honour, the NATO Meritorious Service Medal, the Legion of Merit (USA), as well as high honors from Belgium, Malta, Poland, Russia and Hungary.