Knud Bartels
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Knud Bartels S.K. |
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Knud Bartels in 2012
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| Born |
8 April 1955 Copenhagen, Denmark |
| Allegiance |
 Denmark
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| Service/branch |
.svg){kind=small} Royal Danish Army
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| Years of service | 1972–15 July 2015 |
| Rank | General |
| Commands held |
Danish Chief of Defence Chairman of the NATO Military Committee |
| Awards |
Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog |
| Other work | Adjunct Professor at Royal Danish Defence College |
Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog
25 Years Good Service Medal
Knight 1 st Class of the French National Order of Merit
Knud Bartels (8 April 1952 in Copenhagen) is a retired Danish general, who served as the Danish Chief of Defence between 2009 and 2011 and was Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2011 to 2015.
Bartels was born in Copenhagen in 1952, and is the son of Eyvind Bartels, who served as Danish ambassador in OEEC and later Washington, Knud Bartels, therefore spent much of his childhood abroad, living many years in Paris. He joined the army in 1972, and went to Royal Danish Military Academy the following year. He went on tour on the UN mission to Cypres in 1980, and became Denmark's Permanent Representative on NATO's Military Committee in 2006.
He was appointed as Danish Chief of Defence on 16 November 2009 (announced on 10 November). He succeeded admiral Tim Sloth Jørgensen who resigned after being involved in the controversy around a fake Arabic translation of Jæger – i krig med eliten, a book by a former special forces soldier which he tried to suppress.
As Chief of Defence and Denmark's former Permanent Representative on NATO's Military Committee, General Bartels was Denmark's candidate for the post as Chairman of NATO's Military Committee. The new chairman succeeded Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola (Italian Navy) on 1 July 2012. General Bartels' tenure as chief of defence was due to expire on 30 April 2012.
Although other Chiefs of Defence were considered for the top NATO job, in the final week before the vote the other candidates – as is the custom – sensing a lack of majority support for their own candidacy, withdrew from consideration so that the election of General Bartels could be unanimous when the Committee met to vote on Saturday 17 September 2011. The new chairman is appointed for a 3-year term, near the end of which he is normally approved for a one-year extension (serving a total of 4 years as chairman).
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