Person Michael Hanisch

Michael Hanisch, born in 1978, is a General Staff Officer in the German Federal Armed Forces. He graduated from the Helmut-Schmidt-University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg in 2003 with a Master of Arts in pedagogy. After assignments as specialist for conceptual development and as company commander, he attended the 7th Joint General and Admiral Staff course at the Command and Leadership College in Hamburg from 2010 till 2012. Before he graduated in National Security Affairs at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey/California, in June 2015, he was assigned as a planning staff officer for multinational exercises at headquarters Eurocorps in Strasbourg, France. Since August 2015, he works as the Personal Assistant to the President of the Federal Academy for Security Policy and the Secretary of the Advisory Board in Berlin. Michael Hanisch served in the NATO mission in Kosovo and in the European Union training mission in Mali.