Category: Security policy

Order of the day from the Commander of the Fleet at the end of the military evacuation operation SUDAN

From press releases of the German Armed Forces and the Naval Command Rostock Naval Command, 28 April 2023 Order of the day at the end of the military evacuation operation Sudan On 14 April, bloody unrest broke out in Sudan. The long-simmering conflict within the security apparatus is increasingly plunging Africa's third-largest country by area into chaos. It quickly became clear that German citizens in the country, as well as any other people in need of protection, would have to be evacuated from the country by military means. The aim of the German operation, as well as the international operation, was to bring as many evacuees as possible out of Sudan to safety. We completed this evacuation for the time being on 26 April. The Bundeswehr has...

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Nord Stream sabotage - who wants to know now?

In anticipation of our "marineforum" magazine, which will be published in a few days' time, here is an article that was written three weeks ago but was reserved for the print edition. After 85-year-old US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh tried to make everyone believe in February 2023 with unprovable causal lines that the USA was the bad guy behind the acts of sabotage against the Nord Stream pipelines, in March, according to German investigations, it was a sailing gang of specialists of Ukrainian-Polish origin who could have expertly deployed the highly explosive material at widely separated points at a water depth of around 80 metres. New narrative on the...

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PLATH mit neuer Spitze

Maya von Holdt wird Geschäftsführerin der Plath Corporation GmbH Maya von Holdt wird zum 1. April 2023 zur Geschäftsführerin der Plath Corporation GmbH bestellt und leitet damit gemeinsam mit Nico Scharfe,Michael Kalt und Stefan Efftinge das Unternehmen. In der Geschäftsleitung und als Managing Director verantwortet sie den Bereich Corporate Development. Maya von Holdt ist seit September 2017 bei Plath tätig.Plath ist international tätig und hat sich auf datenbasierte Krisenfrüherkennung spezialisiert. Zur Gruppe  gehören heute weltweit zwölf Unternehmen mit fünf Geschäftsbereichen. Die Gruppe umfasst 15 Unternehmen und beschäftigt über 600 Mitarbeiter weltweit. Plath wurde 1954 vom Ingenieur Maximilian Wächtler unter...

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Berlin: Maritime Capital Forum

It seemed a long time ago: the last time the Maritime Capital Forum (MHF) had issued invitations before the pandemic. Now it was time again: Members of parliament, their staff and the participating parliamentary groups, as well as the maritime community from the navy, the Federal Ministry of Defence, the defence industry, industry and representatives of the press gathered on 29 March at the Representation of the State of Baden-Württemberg to the Federal Government in the Tiergarten district. Under the patronage of the German Maritime Institute and the NATO COE CSW (Center of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters), the MHF organised a Maritime After Work Club following the Munich Security Conference (MSC)....

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DMB/DMA: Breakfast in Sweden

Once again, the German Naval Academy of the German Naval Association hosted a breakfast, traditionally at the Hopfinger Bräu Berlin. While the previous day's barriers from the British King's state visit were being cleared away next door in front of the Brandenburg Gate, the maritime community of parliamentarians, defence, the German Armed Forces and maritime experts gathered for scrambled eggs. Among them were the former defence commissioners Reinhold Robbe and Heinz-Peter Bartels, as well as the commander of the fleet, Vice Admiral Frank Lenski. The event was well attended and, above all, the guests were in a good mood. DMI President Heinz Maurus and Vice President Karl-Dietrich Haase welcomed the Swedish Ambassador, Per Thöresson. The ambassador's lecture was about...

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