Curriculum Vitae Rear Admiral Ralf Kuchler

Rear Admiral and Commandant

Date of Birth:                7 Novemver 1969
Place of Birth:               Kiel

Military Career

since 31 August 2023    
Commandant of the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg

2021 – 2023    
Head of Office of the Chief of Defence at the Federal Ministry of Defence in Berlin

2018 – 2021    
Commander, Flotilla 2, Wilhelmshaven

2017 – 2018    
Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff, Flotilla 2

2016 – 2017    
Chief of Branch FüSK II 1, Directorate-General for Forces Policy, at the Federal Ministry of Defence / Head of Office of the Director-General for Forces Policy (temporarily)

2013 – 2015    
Military Assistant to the Chief of Defence at the Federal Ministry of Defence in Berlin

2011 – 2013    
Commanding Officer, frigate Hamburg

2009 – 2011    
Assistant Chief of Section, EUEuropean Union Capability Development, and German Military Representative to the NATONorth Atlantic Treaty Organization Military Committee and the EUEuropean Union in Brussels

2008 – 2009    
Executive Officer, frigate Karlsruhe

2007 – 2008    
Assistant Chief of Branch, Armed Forces Staff VI 2, at the Federal Ministry of Defence in Bonn

2005 – 2007    
Desk Officer, Naval Staff III 1, at the Federal Ministry of Defence in Bonn

2003 – 2005    
Student of the 45th Admiral Staff Officer Course at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in Hamburg

2001 – 2003    
Principal Air Defence Officer and Operations Officer, frigate Sachsen

2000 – 2001    
Principal Warfare Officer Underwater, frigate Lübeck 

1999 – 2000    
PEP with the Netherlands: Air Defence course at the Dutch-Belgian School of Operations in Den Helder

1998 – 1999    
PEP with the Netherlands: Officer of the Deck, HNLMSHis/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship Bloys van Treslong and Navigator, HNLMSHis/Her Netherlands Majesty's Ship Jan van Brakel

1998     
Dutch language training at the Federal Office of Languages

1996 – 1998    
ASWAnti-Submarine Warfare Officer and Artillery Officer, destroyer Rommel

1995 – 1996    
Advanced officer training course at the Naval Academy in Mürwik

1995    
Second Navigator, destroyer Rommel

1990 – 1994    
Economics and Industrial Engineering studies at the Bundeswehr University Hamburg

1989    
Entry into the Bundeswehr, officer training on the sail training ship Gorch Fock and Navy internship, submarine flotilla