Dr Jana Puglierin is Head of the Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies. From September 2013 to December 2015 she was a program officer at the DGAP’s Future Forum Berlin (Berliner Forum Zukunft). Prior to this she was an advisor on disarmament, arms control, and...
Uta Zapf was a member of the German Bundestag from 1990 to 2013. There, she served as chairwoman of the Sub-Committee on Disarmament, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation (1998-2013) and was member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs. Her work in Parliament focused on disarmament, arms control,...
Brigadier General (ret.) was a major general of the unified German armed forces. In October 2008, he ended 42 years of Bundeswehr service that included troop command (rocket artillery battalion and armoured brigade); academic phases (university studies in history and political science at...
Karsten D. Voigt is a former member of the German Bundestag and served as the Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation at the Foreign Office of Germany from 1999 to 2010. He also served as Vice-President (1992-1994) and then President (1994-1996) of the Parliamentary Assembly of...
Rudolf Sharping is a German politician and served as Federal Minister of Defence from 1998 to 2002. Previously he served as Minister President of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate from 1991 to 1994, and national chairman of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) from 1993 to 1995. From March 1995...
Volker Rühe is a German politician affiliated with the CDU. He served as German Defence Minister from 1992 to 1998, succeeding Gerhard Stoltenberg during the first government of a reunified Germany in the fourth cabinet of Chancellor Kohl. Between 1998 and 2000, Rühe served as the chairman...