Hans Rühle
 Hans Rühle    (deep state operative) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 31 December, 1939 Stuttgart, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | German | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | University of Tübingen, University of Freiburg, University of Regensburg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Children | Michael Rühle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Member of | Le Cercle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German deep state operative. Attended Le Cercle as head of the planning staff of the German Minister of Defense.
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Hans Rühle is a German deep state operative. From 1978 to 1982 he was head of the Social Science Institute of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and from 1982 to 1988 of the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense. He then coordinated the development of the Federal Academy for Security Policy. From 1990 to 1995 he was General Manager of the NATO Multirole Combat Aircraft Development and Production Management Agency (NAMMA).[1][2]
He attended Le Cercle in Bonn in 1983.[1]
Background
Rühle was born in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt in 1937, the son of an inspector. In 1958 he passed the matriculation examination at the Wirtemberg-Gymnasium in Stuttgart. He then did military service with the 261st Parachute Battalion of the German Armed Forces in Ellwangen. In 1959 he retired as a lieutenant in the reserve. Eventually he reached the rank of colonel in the reserve.[3]
From 1959/60 he studied history , political science and sports at the University in Tübingen. In 1963 he also began studying law. In 1964 he moved to the University of Freiburg. In 1966 he passed the first state law examination and in 1967 he completed his legal clerkship in the Higher Regional Court district of Stuttgart. During his legal traineeship, he began studying economics, which he completed in 1970 with a degree in economics from the University of Regensburg. Already in 1968 he became a constitutional lawyer under Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte[4], at the time member of the state parliament of the CSU, at the High Law and Political Science Faculty of the Bavarian University of Würzburg.
Career
From 1971 to 1974 he was deputy head of the newly founded Institute for Security and International Affairs in Bonn, which was run by the CSU-affiliated Hanns Seidel Foundation and the CDU-affiliated Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). The institute, which was later based in Munich, dealt with foreign and security policy as well as internal security. In 1974 he became head of the foreign and security policy research department at the social science institute of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. From 1978 to 1982 he was head of the same institute. As head of the institute, Rühle acted as an advisor to Manfred Wörner, chairman of the Defense Committee of the German Bundestag, on security policy issues.[5] Nevertheless, he is not assigned to the closest discussion group around Chancellor Helmut Kohl's confidante Horst Teltschik, at the time deputy head of the Federal Chancellery.[6]
With the change of power in Bonn, he replaced Ministerial Director Walther Stützle as head of the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense in Bonn (BMVg); Manfred Wörner became defense minister. During Ronald Reagan 's US presidency , he became an important pillar of German-American relations.[7] Rühle was a member of the BMVg at the management level and was involved in the decision-making processes of arms control , security policy and armed forces planning.[8]
Rühle was not taken over as head of the planning staff by Wörner's successor, Rupert Scholz (CDU), but continued to be employed in the BMVg for several months.[9] From October 1988 to October 1989 he was coordinator of the Federal Security Academy which was being set up and which was founded in 1992 under Admiral Dieter Wellershoff. From October 1989 until early retirement in December 1995, he was General Manager of the NATO Multi-Role Combat Aircraft Development and Production Management Agency (NAMMA) in Munich, succeeding Major General Hartmut Gülzow-Control, a center for the development and production of the German-British-Italian multi-role fighter aircraft Tornado.[9] This was combined with the organization responsible for the Eurofighter to form the NATO management agency NETMA.
Deep political connections
He attended Le Cercle in Bonn in 1983.[1]
Iran’s former deputy defense minister, who went missing during a 2006 official visit to Turkey, was kidnapped in a joint Israeli-German-British operation, according to an Iranian newsmagazine. Brigadier general Ali-Reza Asgari, who once commanded Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, disappeared on December 9, 2006, from his hotel room in Istanbul, Turkey. Little more than a year later, Hans Rühle, former Director of Policy Planning in the German Ministry of Defense, wrote in Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung that Asgari was in Western hands and that "information was obtained" from him.[1]
On March 19, 2009, Hans Rühle, former chief of the planning staff of the German Defense Ministry, wrote in the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung that Iran was financing a Syrian nuclear reactor. Rühle did not identify the sources of his information. He wrote that U.S. intelligence had detected North Korean ship deliveries of construction supplies to Syria that started in 2002, and that the construction was spotted by American satellites in 2003, who detected nothing unusual, partly because the Syrians had banned radio and telephones from the site and handled communications solely by messengers.[1]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn) | 30 June 1983 | 3 July 1983 | Germany Bonn | |
| Le Cercle/1984 (Bonn) | 5 July 1984 | 7 July 1984 | Germany Bonn | Held in Bonn, West Germany, the list of the 36 visitors was published online in 2011. |
References
- ↑ a b c d e https://isgp-studies.com/Le_Cercle_membership_list
- ↑ https://www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/author_bio/Ruehle-Dr.-Hans
- ↑ Hans Rühle verabschiedet eine neue Bühne für eine glänzende Karriere. In: Wehrtechnik. Band 28, 1996, page 43.
- ↑ Hans Rühle: Die Landtagswahl 1964 in Baden-Württemberg. Dissertation, Universität Würzburg, 1968
- ↑ Barry M. Blechman, Cathleen S. Fischer: The Silent Partner. West Germany and Arms Control (= An Institute for Defense Analyses book). Ballinger Publishing, Cambridge 1988, ISBN 0-88730-320-X, S. 109.
- ↑ Hans Leyendecker: Kohls Problem mit der Käuflichkeit. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung. 26. August 2000, S. 5.
- ↑ Peter C. Hughes, Theresa M. Sandwith: Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist. The Man behind Wehrkunde. In: Wolfgang Ischinger (Hrsg.): Towards Mutual Security. Fifty Years of Mutual Security. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen u. a. 2014,
- ↑ Stefan Fröhlich: "Auf den Kanzler kommt es an". Helmut Kohl und die deutsche Außenpolitik. Persönliches Regiment und Regierungshandeln vom Amtsantritt bis zur Wiedervereinigung. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2001, ISBN 3-506-72740-0, S. 136.
- ↑ a b Ekkehard Kohrs: Kopf des Ministers, Fruehwarnsystem und Vorausdenker. In: Bonner General-Anzeiger. 13. September 1988, Stadtausgabe Bonn, S. 2.
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