Harald kujat biography sampler

German general

Harald Kujat (born 1 March 1942) is a retired German Air Forcefour-star general. He served as Chief of Staff of the German armed forces, the Bundeswehr, from 2000 to 2002, and as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2002 to 2005.

Biography

Kujat was born in Mielke, Reichsgau Wartheland (today Poland) to a farmer who died as a soldier in World War II.^[1] His mother with her four children fled the advancingRed Army at the end of World War II to Kiel.

Harald kujat biography sampler

After passing his Abitur Kujat volunteered for the Luftwaffe in 1959.^[2] In 1965 he was promoted to lieutenant and became the staff officer of the German secretary of defense Georg Leber in 1972–1975.

Kujat passed the general staff training at the Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr (Hamburg) in 1975–1977 and served as the Staff Officer of Hans Apel in 1977. The same year he took over a department at the Luftwaffenunterstützungsgruppenkommando Nord at Münster and held seve