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Danish general

Knud Bartels (born 8 April 1952)^[2] is a retired Danishgeneral, who served as the Danish Chief of Defence between 2009 and 2011 and was Chairman of the NATO Military Committee from 2011 to 2015.

Early life

Bartels was born in Copenhagen in 1952, 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 1972, and went to Royal Danish Military Academy the following year.^[5] 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.^[5]

Chief of Defence

He was appointed as Danish Chief of Defence on 16 November 2009 (announced on 10 November).^[5] He succeeded admiral Tim Sloth Jørgensen who resigned after being involved in the controversy around