Curriculum Vitae Brigadier Dr. Sven Lange

Brigadier General and Director Strategic Affairs & Faculties 

since 2026    
Director Strategic Affairs & Faculties at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg 

2021 – 2026    
Commander of the Bundeswehr Centre of Military History and Social Sciences (Zentrum für Militärgeschichte und Sozialwissenschaften der Bundeswehr - ZMSBw), Potsdam     

2017 – 2021    
Chief of Branch at the Federal Ministry of Defence, Directorate-General for Forces Policy, Branch III 3 (Leadership Development and Civic Education, Military Chaplaincy, Political, Historical and Ethical Education, Tradition, Military Music), Berlin    

2016 – 2017    
Senior lecturer for foreign and security policy at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg    
2015 – 2016    Resident student at the US Army War College, Carlisle/Pennsylvania (USA)    

2013 – 2015    
Chief of the Military Historical Education and Information Division at ZMSBw, Potsdam    

2011 – 2013    
Assistant Chief of Branch with the Planning Staff of the Federal Minister of Defence and at the FMOD Directorate-General for Security and Defence Policy, Branch II 2, Berlin

2008 – 2011    
Special Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation, Norfolk/Virginia (USA)
2006 – 2008    Personal Staff Officer (Army) to the German Chief of Defence, Berlin

2004 – 2005    
Assistant Section Chief with the German Military Representative to the NATO and EU/WEU Military Committees, Brussels

2003 – 2004    
Student at the Naval Postgraduate School (Master’s degree in Strategic Studies), Monterey/California (USA)

2002 – 2003    
G3 Ops in the French-German Brigade, Müllheim (including: assignment with SFOR)
2002    Doctorate for the study ‘Der Fahneneid. Die Geschichte der Schwurverpflichtung’, Bundeswehr University, Hamburg

2000 – 2002    
Student on the 43rd General Staff Officer Course (Army) at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg

1994 – 2000    
Various troop assignments, lastly as Commander 5th Company/93 Tank Demonstration Battalion, Munster

1990 – 1994    
Studies in History and Social Sciences at the Bundeswehr University, Hamburg

1987    
School-leaving examination qualifying for university entrance (Abitur) and entry into the Bundeswehr as an officer candidate with 123 Tank Battalion, Kümmersbruck