Roderich Kiesewetter
German politician
Roderich Kiesewetter (born 11 September 1963) is a former Bundeswehr general staff officer and politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) who has been serving as a member of the German Bundestag since 2009.
Early life and career
After passing the German Abitur examination in 1982, Kiesewetter joined the German military artillery forces. From 1983 until 1986, he studied economics and organizational sciences at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich and the University of Texas at Austin. From 1995 to 1997, he attended the German General Staff Course at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr in Hamburg, being awarded the Heusinger prize for the best German graduate.
Having finished the studies in Hamburg, Kiesewetter was posted at the European Council, the NATO Headquarters in Brussels and Mons as well as in the German Ministry of Defence. Besides that, he also used to be commander of a German army battalion and took part in different military missions abroad. From 2006 to 2009, he was head of the offices of the then Chiefs of Staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, Rainer Schuwirth and Karl-Heinz Lather in SHAPE/Mons, Belgium. In 2009, he had a post at the Rapid Reaction Forces Operations Command (Kommando operative Führung Eingreifkräfte), until he was elected member of parliament on 17 October 2009 and left the army as a colonel.
Political career
Kiesewetter has been a member of the German Bundestag since the 2009 federal elections.
In the Bundestag, Kiesewetter is a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as deputy chairman of the Sub-Committee for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation.
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