International Security Senior Associate
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.
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
With the European Security Order in Shambles, Further Escalation Must Be Prevented
doi:10.18449/2022C16
Contributions to Research Papers 2021/RP 10, 13.12.2021, 125 Pages, pp. 91–94
President Trump Wants to Withdraw from the Open Skies Treaty
doi:10.18449/2020C29
A New Nuclear Arms Race Can Still Be Prevented
doi:10.18449/2019C04
Россия начала наступление в Донбассе, сконцентрировав в этом регионе значительные силы.
Wolfgang Richter reminds us of workable peace treaties from the past and how we might apply our experience to the current situation in Ukraine.
Current Status of and Requirements for Conventional Arms Control in Europe
The Elimination and Verification Process