The German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP) has appointed Dr. Hans-Peter Bartels, former Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, as the new head of its Center for Security and Defense (ad interim). With his many years of experience and expertise in security policy, Bartels will be overseeing the next phase of DGAP’s research on Germany’s Zeitenwende.
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As president of the Gesellschaft für Sicherheitspolitik e.V. (GSP) and long-standing Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Hans-Peter Bartels brings a broad range of security expertise and a solid network to his new position at DGAP. There, he will play a key role in the strategic realignment of its Center for Security and Defense. His work will focus on three priorities relating to the further development of policy related to Germany’s Zeitenwende: the future of the European security order, Western defense cooperation, and the strengthening of German defense through integrated security concepts.
In a time of hybrid threats, when Europe and especially Germany must assume greater responsibility for their own defense, Hans-Peter Bartels will focus on the issue of integrated security. So far, this topic has received too little attention – both in foreign policy think tanks and elsewhere.
“I am delighted that we have been able to win Hans-Peter Bartels, an expert who is equally well-known to an informed public and the policy community, to lead the realignment of DGAP’s Center for Security and Defense in the coming year,” said DGAP Director Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff. “He is held in high esteem in Germany and is rightly considered to be extremely competent and non-partisan. We are honored that he is now dedicating these qualities to DGAP.”
