Editorial team ES&T print edition


editor-in-chief

Jürgen Fischer

Head of Services

William Bocklet

  • Retired Lieutenant Colonel
  • b 1949
  • 1969 Entry into the German Armed Forces
  • After officer training, assignments within the PSV troops, including chief of the printing company, traineeship at the DPA, editor of the Bundeswehr film show
  • Advisor to the command staff of the armed forces in the BMVg, Bonn
  • Head of the Central Affairs Department at the Bundeswehr Information and Media Center in Sankt Augustin
  • Head of media training at the Bundeswehr Information and Media Center in Sankt Augustin
  • Staff Officer Plans & Policy in the Public Information Office of Surprime Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Mons, Belgium
  • Head of Press and Public Relations at the Army Office, Cologne
  • From 1985 to 2000 part-time editor-in-chief of the Kyffhäuser magazine
  • Since January 2003 Head of Strategy & Technology (published under the title "Soldat und Technik" until 12/2004); Editor NATO Affairs
Phone: 0228 35 00 874 emailw.bocklet@mittel-report.de

Knut Gorsdorf

  • Staff captain aD
  • born 1953 in Kirchhellen
  • Entry into service in the Luftwaffe: January 2, 1974
  • 1974 to 1981 Personnel Manager/Company Sergeant
  • 1981 to 1983 training as an officer in the military service
  • 1983 to 1992 Personnel Officer
  • 1992 to 2010 clerk in the BMVg command staff of the Air Force with changing main areas of responsibility: care and welfare, internal leadership, military music and, most recently, information work in the Air Force
  • End of service: July 31, 2010
  • Editor since August 2010European security, from January 2012 in the editorial officeES & Tresponsible for the final editing, among other things
Telephone: 02 28 35 00 884
E-mail:k.goersdorf@mittel-report.de

Michael Horst

  • retired colonel
  • b 1948
  • 1968: Entry into the German Armed Forces
  • After officer training (30.OAJ) studied mechanical engineering in Darmstadt with a degree as Dipl.-Ing. (1975)
  • Training to become an officially recognized expert (aaSmT)
  • Assignments in the repair troop, in the 1st PzDiv and the 12th PzDiv
  • Group leader for the mechanical engineering department at Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg
  • Head of Material Test Command 1st PzDiv, Hanover
  • Deputy Commander Repair Battalion 12, Volkach
  • Head of department "Logistics Management, Basics of Logistics and Concepts" in the Army Office, Cologne
  • Head of the “Equipment Planning, Logistics” department in the Army Office, Koblenz/Cologne
  • Head of Department "Operational Support Study Group" in the Army Office, Cologne
  • Head of the "Logistics Management" department in the Army Office, Cologne
  • Army armament group leader (January 2003 – November 2008) “Support, Sustainability and Mobility” at the Army Office, Cologne
  • Since December 1, 2008 Editor Land Forces and Armaments ofStrategy & Technology(as of January 2012 fromES & T) and editor-in-chiefmilitary economy
Telephone: 0228 35 00 881
E-mail:m.horst@mittel-report.de

Hans Uwe Mergener

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  • Captain at sea aD
  • Born in 1955
  • Officer Training (Crew 7-74)
  • Degree in Education (Helmut Schmidt University, Hamburg)
  • Schnellbootflottille, 1978 – 1992. Officer on Watch, Commander, Flotilla Headquarters, Squadron Deputy Commander
  • Speaker activity in NATO, EU and BMVg
  • Advisor for naval armaments, basic armaments affairs (CPM 2001) and parliamentary affairs in the office of State Secretary Dr. Eickenboom, BMVg, Berlin, 2002 – 2004
  • Defense Attaché at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pretoria/South Africa. Responsible for South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and Zimbabwe, 2007 – 2010
  • Stellvertretender Kommandeur im Standortkommando Berlin. 2010 – 2012
  • Bundesgeschäftsführer Verband der Reservisten der Deutschen Bundeswehr e.V., 2013 – 2016
  • seit  2018 Fachredakteur Marine, Europäische Sicherheit & Technik, Bonn
E-mail:h-u.mergener@mittler-report.de

Ständige Mitarbeiter

Dieter Stockfisch, Kapitän zuer See a.D. (Korrespondent Marine/Küste)
Dietmar Klos, Oberst a.D. (Sonderkorrespondent Landstreitkräfte)
Dr. Jan-Phillipp Weisswange, Oberstleutnant d.R.
Peter Preylowski, Oberst a.D.
Ulrich Rapreger, Oberst a.D. (Sonderkorrespondent Luftwaffe)
Dipl.-Ing. Gerhard Heiming, Oberstleutnant a.D.
Dipl.-Ing. Hans-Günter Behrendt, Oberstleutnant a.D. 
Rolf Hilmes, Wissenschaftlicher Direktor a.D.
Thomas Bauer, M.A. 
Dipl.-Ing. Georg Meyer, Oberst a.D. 
Korrespondent für USA: Sidney E. Dean
Korrespondent in Berlin: Dr. Wolfgang Labuhn