Bruno Kahl
Bruno Guntram Wilhelm Kahl | |
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13th President of the Federal Intelligence Service | |
Assumed office 1 July 2016 | |
Chancellor | Angela Merkel Olaf Scholz |
Vice President | Werner Sczesny |
Vice President | Ole Diehl |
Personal details | |
Born | 12 July 1962 Essen, West Germany |
Citizenship | Germany |
Political party | Christian Democratic Union |
Alma mater | University of Bonn, University of Lausanne |
Bruno Guntram Wilhelm Kahl (born 12 July 1962 in
Early life and education
Kahl was born as the first child of Bernhard and Ute Kahl (
Kahl is a colonel (Oberst) in the Reserves of the Bundeswehr.[2]
Career
In 1994, Kahl completed his second state examination at the Oberlandesgericht of Cologne, and then worked for the Confederation of German Employers' Associations. From 1995 to 1996, he was a desk officer at the Federal Chancellery. From 1996 until 2005, he was assigned as an adviser to the CDU/CSU parliamentary group, where he performed preliminary work for the group's chairman Wolfgang Schäuble. Since then, he has been a close confidant of Schäuble.[3][4]
In 2005 in the
Kahl was appointed President of the
Kahl is a member of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU).[8]
In February 2022, Kahl was in Ukraine when Russia invaded and had to be taken home overland in a two-day journey by special forces when the country's airspace was closed. [9]
Only a few days before, Kahl had declared that Putin had not yet decided whether to attack Ukraine.[10]
Personal life
Kahl has two daughters and has been widowed since 2008.[11]
Publications
- Europäische Union: Bundesstaat – Staatenbund - Staatenverbund? Zum Urteil des BVerfG vom 12. Oktober 1993. In: Der Staat, Volume 33, 1994, p. 241 ff.
- Bruno Kahl: "Elemente katholischen Denkens in säkularer Staatslehre zum Frühwerk Carl Schmitts", Dissertation, Berlin, 2007
- Bruno Kahl et al. (ed.): Der fröhliche Sisyphos – für Wolfgang Schäuble, Herder, Freiburg im Breisgau, 2012 ISBN 978-3-45130663-1.
- Der Große Vaterländische Betrieb – Warum die Treuhand eine Erfolgsgeschichte wurde? In: ISBN 978-3-64233114-5, pp. 95–97.
- Bruno Kahl, Andreas Kerst: Öffentliche Unternehmen. In: ISBN 978-3-83053325-2, pp. 613–642.
References
- ^ Bundesnachrichtendienst. n.d. Archived from the originalon 2018-10-21. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ a b Diehl, Jörg (2016-04-30). "Ohne Knautschzone" [Without crumple zone]. Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ ISBN 9783642331145.
- ^ a b "Kahl folgt auf Schindler: CSU kritisiert Wechsel an BND-Spitze". Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. dpa. 2016-04-27. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ Beteiligungsbericht der Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen für das Jahr 2014 Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia.
- ^ "Bruno Kahl übernimmt Chefposten beim BND" [Bruno Kahl takes over leadership position at the BND]. Der Spiegel. dpa. 2016-07-01. Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ Rieger, Arnold (2016-07-14). "Schmalzl hat neuen Job bei Schäuble". Stuttgarter Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 2017-09-24.
- ^ Schuler, Katharina (April 27, 2016). "Bruno Kahl: Der Schäuble-Vertraute". Die Zeit.
- ^ Andreas Rinke (25 February 2022), Special forces evacuated German spy chief from Ukraine -Focus magazine Reuters.
- ^ Miller, Greg; Belton, Catherine (2022-08-19). "Russia's spies misread Ukraine and misled Kremlin as war loomed". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2023-03-29.
- ^ "BND-Chef Schindler wird abgelöst". n-tv (in German). dpa, AFP. 2016-04-26. Retrieved 2017-09-24.