Knud bartels biography sampler

Danish general

Knud Bartels (born 8 April )^[2] is a retired Danishgeneral, who served as the Danish Chief of Defence between and and was Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from to

Early life

Bartels was born in Copenhagen in , and is the son of Eyvind Bartels, who served as Danish ambassador in OEEC and later Washington,^[3] Knud Bartels, therefore spent much of his childhood abroad, living many years in Paris.^[4] He joined the army in , and went to Royal Danish Military Academy the following year.^[5] He went on tour on the UN mission to Cypres in , and became Denmark's Permanent Representative on NATO's Military Committee in ^[5]

Chief of Defence

He was appointed as Danish Chief of Defence on 16 November (announced on 10 November).^[5] 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 Knud Bartels - Wikiwand BUWO