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	• Professor Michael N. Schmitt Dean and Professor of International Law • Ralph R. "Rick" Steinke Deputy Dean (U.S.) • Dr. Robert Brannon Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies and Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Steven J. Briggs Executive Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Colonel Todd Brown Military Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant Colonel Christopher G. Cavoli Deputy Director, Program in Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction • Rear Admiral (L) Alberto Cervone Professor of Security Studies • Dr. John L. Clarke Professor of Leadership, Management and Defense Planning and Director, Program on Civil Security • Dr. Sabine Collmer Director, Research Program • Dr. Sharyl Cross Professor of National Security Studies • Colonel Peter Durr Deputy Director, Senior Executive Seminar and Professor of Security Studies • Captain Dean L. Dwigans Judge Advocate General’s Corps - U.S. Navy • Mr. Alexander Borissovitch Garin Professor of National Security Strategy • Dr. Gregory Gleason Professor of Eurasian Security Studies • Dr. Christopher C. Harmon Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Natalie Hassman Professor of Eurasian Studies • Commander Diplom Ingenieur Andreas Hildenbrand Lecturer and Tutor • Lieutenant Colonel John J. Kane III, USMC Deputy Director, Program on Terrorism and Security Studies • Dr. Elena Kovalova Professor of National Security Studies • Professor John Kriendler Professor of NATO and European Security Issues • Dr. John J. LeBeau Professor of Strategy and Security Studies • Colonel Jeff Lee Military Professor of International Security Studies • Colonel Donald Jack Liles Commandant of the Marine Corps Chair • Dr. Dragan Lozancic Professor of Security Studies • Dr. Andrew A. Michta Professor of National Security Studies and Director of Studies of the Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Ann L. Phillips Director, Program for Security, Stability, Transition & Reconstruction • Professor Andrew Nichols (Nick) Pratt, Colonel, USMC (Ret.) Professor of Strategy and International Politics • Lieutenant Colonel Jeff Predmore Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Professor Fritz Rademacher Professor of International Security Studies • Lieutenant General (ret.) Jean-Paul Raffenne Director, Senior Executive Seminar • Dr. Matthew Rhodes Professor of National Security Studies • PD Dr. Ralf Roloff Senior German Professor • Colonel Peter Schneider Professor for Security Policy • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Nicolas v. Thaden (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program in Advanced Security Studies • Dr. John (Jack) M. Treddenick Professor of Defense Economics • Lieutenant Colonel (GS) Hans-Joerg Voll (German Army) Military Professor and Deputy Director, Program for Security, Stabilization, Transition and Reconstruction • Dr. Petra Weyland Professor of Middle Eastern Affairs • James Kenneth Wither (UK) Professor of National Security Studies; Director, Fellows Program • Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies

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Brigadier-General Mag. Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth
Professor, Program for Advanced Security Studies
College of International and Security Studies

Brigadier-General Karl-Alexander Wohlgemuth is professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies. He is a seminar leader for the Center’s Program for Advanced Security Studies, and teaches course electives on “Security of Small and Medium States” and “Peace Support and Stability Operations.” He is also a seminar leader for the Center’s three-week Program for Security, Stability, Transition and Reconstruction, or SSTaR.

General Wohlgemuth was born May 5, 1947, in Vienna, Austria. He joined the military Jan. 4, 1966 as a Private, and graduated from Military Academy as a Lieutenant in 1970.

From 1972-1973 he was a Company Commander for the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus.

From 1978-1979, he was in Syria as part of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force. In 1980, he served as a liaison officer to Israel as part of the UN Truce Supervision Organization; and was an Operations Officer Commander in Safajevo and Zagreb in 1996-1997.

From 1999-2001 he was Deputy Chief Military Observer for the UN Observer Mission in Georgia, and from June 2004 to July 2006 he was the Senior Military Advisor to the Special Representative of the Secretary General, UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.

His last assignment, from 2002 – 2007, was as the Deputy Director of the Department for Peace Support and Conflict Management at the Austrian Defense Academy; he arrived at the Marshall Center in August, 2007.

General Wohlgemuth earned his degree as a Magister Phil. in history and political science from the Salzburg and Vienna University, graduating in October 1998.

Last updated: April 17, 2008