Wolfram Kühn

Wolfram Kühn ( born November 7, 1952 in Bad Schwartau ) is Vice- Admiral of the German Navy and was on April 27, 2006 to March 28, 2012 Inspector of the Armed Forces base and Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr.

Military Career

Training and first uses

Kühn joined in 1972 as an officer cadet of the Navy in the service of the Bundeswehr. In 1973 he was promoted to lieutenant. This was followed by a degree in Economic and Organizational Sciences at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg, where he graduated in 1977 as Diplom-Kaufmann. During this time he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1976.

After studying Kühn was transferred to the destroyer of Schleswig- Holstein with her home port of Wilhelmshaven, where he served as a locating officer from 1977 to 1979. In 1979 he was promoted to Lieutenant Commander and transferred to Kiel. There he was employed from 1979 to 1982 as adjutant to the commander of the territorial commands Schleswig-Holstein and at the same time the German representative in the field of Allied Forces Northern Europe ( AFNORTH ) of NATO. After this staff use it went back to Wilhelmshaven, where Kuehn of 1982 served as a ship's supply officer on the frigate Rheinland -Palatinate until 1984. Finally, he was transferred to Hamburg and graduated from the Staff College from 1984 to 1986 26 Admiral Staff Officer Course and received after the end of the promotion to Lieutenant Commander.

Service as a staff officer

From 1986 to 1987 Kuehn served as auditorium manager and chief inspector at the Naval Supply School List (Sylt ). The following year, Kühn was again used until 1989 when Territorial Command Schleswig-Holstein and the German plenipotentiaries AFNORTH in Kiel, this time as a logistics staff officer ( G4). There followed a use as a speaker Bundeswehr planning in the guide rod of the Navy ( FüM ) in Bonn Federal Ministry of Defence. Kühn in 1990 was promoted to commander and took over until 1991, also in the ministry in Bonn until 1991 the post of Staff Officer to the Chief of Staff of the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces ( FüS ), Peter Haarhaus.

From 1991 to 1993 Kühn was used as a training group commander and deputy commander of the Navy Supply School in List. Thereafter, he was restored to the command staff of the Navy, where he served as secretary for policy matters Logistics / armor to 1994. In the same year, 1994, Kuehn completed a course at the Defense Resources Management Institute ( DRM ) of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.

Back in Germany he took over from 1994 to 1997 Wilhelmshaven the post of Head of Controlling at Naval Support Command and was promoted to captain at sea even during this use in 1995. He then completed 1997-1998 postgraduate studies at the National War College in Washington, DC, which he graduated with a Master of Science in the National Security Strategy.

From 1998 to 2001 he served as Head of Unit for fundamental matters of logistics and traffic and transportation in the Joint Staff of the Armed Forces ( FüS V 1) and the Armed Forces base ( FüSKB II 1, issued in October 2000, an independent military organization area) used in Bonn.

Service as an admiral

In 2001 he was finally appointed Commodore and displaced to 2002 as Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Support Command under the command of Ulf von Krause to Cologne -Wahn. From 2002 to 2004 he served as Deputy Chief of the Joint Staff of the Navy under the command of the Chief of Staff, Jörg Auer. 2004 Kuehn was eventually appointed himself to Rear Admiral and took over on 12 February of the same year by Egon ramming the post of Chief of Staff in the Armed Forces. A post he gave to Manfred Engelhardt April 20, 2006.

After the premature transfer into temporary retirement of Hans -Heinrich Dieter in January 2006 Kühn took over on 27 April 2006 appointed Vice- Admiral of the interim incumbent Johann -Georg Dora the post of Inspector of the Armed Forces base and Deputy Inspector General of the Bundeswehr. Wolfram Kühn handed over his office on March 28, 2012 Vice Admiral Manfred Nielson and was adopted by a large tattoo in retirement.

Private

Kühn is married.