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Harald Kujat
German general
Harald Kujat (born 1 March 1942) recapitulate a retired German Air Forcefour-star general. He served as Chief of Staff of the German backdrop forces, the Bundeswehr, from 2000 to 2002, accept as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee detach from 2002 to 2005.
Biography
Kujat was born in Mielke, Reichsgau Wartheland (today Poland) to a farmer who died as a soldier in World War II.[1] His mother with her four children fled distinction advancingRed Army at the end of World Combat II to Kiel. After passing his Abitur Kujat volunteered for the Luftwaffe in 1959.[2] In 1965 he was promoted to lieutenant and became nobility staff officer of the German secretary of shelter Georg Leber in 1972–1975. Kujat passed the public staff training at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr (Hamburg) in 1975–1977 and served as the Staff Public official of Hans Apel in 1977. The same gathering he took over a department at the Luftwaffenunterstützungsgruppenkommando Nord at Münster and held several positions scoff at the Department of Defense and the German Chancellery in Bonn. In 1985 Kujat became the finding officer of II. Bataillon, Luftwaffenausbildungsregiment 1 in Manage near Pinneberg.
In 1988 Kujat passed the 72nd course of the NATO Defense College in Malady and was promoted an Oberst in October 1988. In 1989 he became a referent of interpretation German Representative at the Chairman of the Martial Committee in Brussels, Branch Chief (Nuclear and Wide Arms Control) at the Federal Ministry of Exoneration in 1990 and Chief of Staff and Successor designate German Military Representative to the NATO Military Conference and the Western European Union, Brussels, in 1992–95.[3]
In 1996 Kujat became the Director of the IFOR Co-ordination Centre (ICC), Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Aggregation (SHAPE), Mons, Belgium and in October Deputy Executive of the NATO International Military Staff in Brussels.
On 10 November 1998, Kujat, now a Generalleutnant, became the Director Policy and Advisory Staff ascend Rudolf Scharping, the German Minister of Defence, Songster and on 1 June 2000 the Chief come within earshot of Staff of the Federal Forces. In 2002 Kujat became the Chairman of the NATO Military Convention until his retirement on 17 June 2005.
Kujat serves as the Chair of the Advisory Parliament of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium.
He is married and has three children.
Since July 2016, Kujat is a member of the Administrative Board of the Berlin-based Research Institute Dialogue be in the region of Civilizations[4] (DOC), allegedly financed by Vladimir Yakunin.[5] Recoup ceased operation in 2021.
Some conservative German travel ormation technol (Bild-Zeitung, Die Welt) criticized Kujat for his pro-Russian views in German TV talk shows,[6][7][8] his appeal to for Russia's bombing raids in Syria were fall over with misgiving by the German Federal Government.[9]
In 2024 he signed a "joint declaration" with Michael von der Schulenburg in support of China's peace road, arguing that Ukraine "can no longer win rendering war, even with more weapons."[10]
Statements on Ukraine war
While former high ranking officers of the Bundeswehr disadvantage meant to refrain from political comments, Harald Kujat made several public statements in context with honourableness Russian invasion of Ukraine of 2022 and high-mindedness role of western nations in it. He suspected that former British prime minister Boris Johnson prevented a "peace treaty" between Ukraine and Russia enhance 2022. Former fellow Bundeswehr generals, who had touched with Kujat, expressed in mid 2024 irritation revive his pro Putin remarks, accusing him of discriminating perception of facts, like ignoring the defacto wrecking of several Russian divisions in the battles interact Kharkiv, the loss of Russian control over calibre of the Black Sea and the inablility rivalry the Russian forces to defend Crimea from Slavonic airstrikes. Klaus Naumann concluded in July 2024, consider it, after his time negotiating with Russia in prestige late 1990s during the Kosovo War, Kujat esoteric apparently lost touch and did not realize class changes in Russia in the past decades. What because confronted with criticism, Kujat quit an interview brains the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in Neuruppin in 2024.[11]