Johann Frank (general)
Austrian major general
Johann Frank (born 6 November 1969 in Leoben, Austria) is a Major General of the Austrian Armed Forces.
Major General Frank is the Austrian Military Representative to EU and NATO.
From 2022 to 2025 he held the position of Director Cabinet of the Chairman of the European Union Military Committee. In this capacity he supported Chairman General Robert Brieger. Main achievements of this periode were amongst others the establishment of an EU training mission for Ukraine, so far the biggest military mission of the EU, the activation of European Union Naval Force ASPIDES in the Red Sea as the first-ever maritime operation of the EU in a non-permissive environment, the declaration of full-operational capability of the EU Rapid Deployment Capacity (RDC) and expanding traditional crisis management oriented capability planning of the EU by including also aspects for territorial defence.
From 2020 to 2022, he was director of the Institute for Peace Support and Conflict Management at the National Defence Academy in Vienna. From 2014 to 2020, he held the position of Security policy director at the Federal Ministry of Defence (in Austria: BMLV) and was a permanent member of the National Security Council (NSC) and the council for integration and foreign policy (German: Rat für Integration und Außenpolitik, RIA).
Career
Frank graduated from the military secondary school (German: Militärrealgymnasium) in Wiener Neustadt in 1988 and attended the Theresian Military Academy from 1989 to 1992. He became a company commander and teaching officer at the CBRN Defence School of the Austrian Armed Forces, followed by the appointment as deputy head of the CBRN Defence School in 1998. In 1999, he moved to the military policy area in the Austrian Federal Ministry of Defence. After working in the Security Policy Department of the Federal Chancellery, he was promoted to head of the Office for Security Policy in the Federal Ministry of Defence in 2008.
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