Colonel (ret.) Wolfgang Richter
Research Division:
International Security Senior Associate
wolfgang.richter@swp-berlin.org +49 30 88007-225
Areas of Expertise
- Eastern Europe
- Georgia
- Russian Federation
- Southern Caucasus
- Arms control
- Conflict prevention
- Defence and security policy / Armed forces
- International law
- Nato
- Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe
- Regional and interstate conflicts
Problems of pan-European security cooperation, the relation between NATO and Russia, unresolved territorial conflicts in Europe, the role of the OSCE for conflict prevention and the contribution of arms control for the European stability. Implications of new military technologies for strategies, international humanitarian law and humanitarian arms control.
Short Curriculum vitae
04/2005-03/2009 Head of the military section of the Permanent Representation of Germany to the OSCE, Vienna
04/1999-03/2005 Head of department (global and European arms control), Federal Armed Forces Centre for Verification Tasks
10/1995-03/1999 Head of the military section of the Permanent Representation of Germany to the Conference on Disarmament, Geneva, and to Disarmament fora of the United Nations, New York
Other assignments as paratrooper officer and general staff officer, inter alia to the Ministry of Defence (Concept of the Bundeswehr) and to SHAPE, Mons (nuclear concepts and conventional arms control); commander of a former motorized rifle regiment of the National People's Army in Marienberg/Saxony after the unification of Germany
11/1989 - 01/1991 Research fellow at SWP
