Jörn Thießen is a Protestant theologian and pastor, and works as a director of the German Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff College (Führungsakademie der Bundeswehr) in Hamburg. He previously served as a personal aide to the Minister-President of Schleswig-­Holstein, Björn Engholm, and as head of the minister’s office under German Defense Minister Rudolf Scharping. From 2002 until 2005, he was director of the Bundes­wehr Institute of Social Sciences (SOWI) in Strausberg. Thießen is a member of the SPD and served as a member of the German Bundestag from 2005 to 2009, on the Defense Committee.

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