Uwe Marquardt is a police officer and lawyer qualified to hold judicial office. From the university, he was responsible for the evaluation of German police involvement in Afghanistan from 2022 to 2024 as acting head of the Department of International Police Relations and (partial) project manager. The project ended with a joint departmental report and a department-specific report for the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Homeland.
Prior to his work as Vice President and Acting President at the DHPol, Mr. Marquardt served from 2001 to 2020 in various assignments in the higher law enforcement service of the North Rhine-Westphalia police, including from 2006 to 2007 as Chief of Staff at the International Police Commissioner as part of the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), from 2007 to 2009 as Deputy Head of the 3. From 2009 to 2012, he was a consultant to the inspector of the North Rhine-Westphalia police and chaired the federal-state working group on international police missions (AG IPM) at the NRW Ministry of the Interior. From 2017 to 2020, he was head of the freeway police and deputy head of directorate at Münster police headquarters as well as police commander for outstanding operational situations.
Since 2010, he has been a part-time member of the Federal and State Crisis Intervention Team (KIT) at the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Home Affairs, which supports police officers after stressful events during foreign missions in the respective countries of deployment.
Mr. Marquardt is a lieutenant colonel in the reserve at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College in the Department of Operations, Cyber and Information Space, Armed Forces Base.
He completed the master’s degree program “Criminal Justice, Governance and Police Science” at the Ruhr University Bochum and taught there from 2010 to 2018 in the module “International Peacekeeping”.
