UDT Official Event Guide

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
Keynote address and opening Panel
Tuesday 18th June, 1000-1200
open to all UDT 2013 attendees.
The UDT 2013 conference will be opened by a panel of senior military officers chaired by Captain Raimund Wallner,
German Navy (ret’d). Each speaker will lend their expert opinion to the overall discussion for this year’s theme:
Consolidating Progress: flexible technologies and innovative, cost effective solutions in the
underwater environment.
Panel led by:
Vice admiral axel Schimpf
Chief German Navy
VAdm Schimpf joined the German Navy in 1971, in 1982-83 he had operational training at the
‘Operationele School’ in Den Helder, Netherlands.
In the year 2000 he was promoted to Assistant Chief of Staff Operations and Deupty Chief of
Staff HQ CINCGERFLEET. In 2010 VAdm Schimpf was promoted to Chief of German Naval
Staff, and since has held the position of Chief of the German Navy.
Vice admiral Krause
Deputy Commander Allied Maritime Command Naples, NATO
Born in 1956 in Luebeck, Vice Admiral Krause joined the Federal German Navy in 1976. He
graduated from the German Armed Forces University with a degree in Educational Science and
was commissioned as Lieutenant Junior Grade in July 1979.
Vice Admiral Krause served onboard several submarines before commanding U-22 in 1986.
After training as an Anti-Submarine Principal Warfare Officer, he attended the 32nd Admiral Staff
Officer Course at the Federal Armed Forces Command and Staff College, Hamburg.
In 2008 Vice Admiral Krause became the Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the German Fleet and Chief
of Staff of the German Fleet Command before he assumed command of the Joint Operations Staff in
the Ministry of Defence, Berlin. He assumed his current appointment as Deputy Commander Allied
Maritime Command Naples in January 2012 following his promotion to Vice Admiral.
Rear admiral morten Jacobsen
Head of Naval Systems, Norwegian Defence Logistics
Organisation
Rear Admiral Morten Jacobsen was born in 1955 and started his military education at the
Royal Norwegian Naval Academy in 1974. After graduating in 1978, he joined the Submarine
service. In 1982 he passed the Submarine Command Course in Royal Navy (UK) where after
he took command of a Kobben class submarine.
During 2002 the restructuring of the Norwegian Armed Forces gained speed, and Jacobsen
was given the opportunity to lead the organisational development of one joint Procurement
division within the newly established Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation (NDLO).
He was head of this procurement organisation as Commodore until mid 2005, when he
was promoted to Rear Admiral and Director of Norwegian Defence Systems Management
Division; within NDLO. In this position he was responsible for the safety, configuration
management and readiness of all Weapon Systems and equipment in the Norwegian Armed
Forces. From 2010 he was Chief Procurement staff for three years, before he took over as
Head of Naval Systems in NDLO.
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