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Colonel (ret.) MANFRED ROSENBERGER is actually the Executive Director of the INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR MILITARY ETHICS IN EUROPE (Euro-ISME Association loi 1901, FR) which is seated at the Research Centre of the Military Academy of the French Army in Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan. He was born 1948 at Loerrach/Germany and began his military career in 1968 with the Federal Armed Forces (Bundeswehr) as an airborne infantry officer. He entered Federal General Staff College (Hamburg) in 1978 and was sent as a student to the French War College (École Supérieure de Guerre, Paris) in 1980 where he also held the position as German Liaison Officer to the French Department of Higher Military Education (1984-87) He commanded the 251 Paratrooper Battalion in Calw (Black Forest, 1987 -89) He held positions as desk officer Franco-German military cooperation within the German Ministry of Defence (1989-1991 and 1995-1997). He was also the first German desk officer exchanged to the French General Staff (1992-95) , From 1997 to 2001 he was the director of the military element within the permanent secretariat of the Franco-German Security and Defence Council in Paris before he joined his last appointment as Chief of Staff /Director of Studies within the Federal College for Security Studies in Berlin (2001-2005). At the inaugural conference of Euro-ISME held in Paris in June 2011, he was appointed interim executive director and during the first Ordinary General Assembly in June 2012 in Shrivenham (UK) he was elected Member of the Board of Directors and acted as Executive Director until May 2015. He is also a member of the International Forum for Ethics and Responsibility (FE&R) who's members engage for the promotion through United Nations of a "Charter of Universal Responsibilities" as a third pillar of International Relations besides the UN Charter for Peace and Development and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Manfred Rosenberger is married with Liane Winkel and they have a son and a daughter.
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