Editor-in-chief: Hartmut Bühl, Paris
Hartmut Bühl was born in 1940 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is the co-founder of the magazine “The European – Security and Defence Union” (ESDU) and since 2008 has been its editor-in-chief. Hartmut is a German general staff officer (Col ret) who served among others as a defence and security policy advisor to two German Chancellors (1982-1986), as military attaché in Paris from 1986 to1990, and as brigade commander in Trier (1991-1992). Hartmut was then the German head of the mounting HQ of Eurocorps and its first Deputy Chief of Staff Operations (DCOS) in Strasbourg (1992-1996). After his last assignment as commander of the military division in Darmstadt, he retired in 1998 from the Bundeswehr and joined Aerospatial/DASA (future EADS) as a Marketing Director at EUROMISSILE in Paris. He then served as Executive Vice-President of EADS and Director of Security and Defense at NATO/EU in the EADS Brussels Representation Office. In 2005 he left EADS and engaged in the Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) consortium in Brussels as Team Leader Communications until 2007. He was the head of the Brussels office of the Behördenspiegel Group publishing house from 2007 to 2014. Hartmut is the author of several books on strategic security and defence issues and on military resistance during the Nazi regime. He was decorated with the German Bundesverdienstkreuz am Bande (1994) and the United States Meritorious Service Medal (1998). France made him Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur (2004).
Email: h.buehl@mittler-report.de • Phone: +49 172 32 82 319 (mobile)