Klaus-Dieter Büttgen (male) – Born in 1969, Klaus-Dieter Büttgen completed his mandatory one-year military service in 1990 after graduating from high school.

Thereupon he studied jurisprudence at the Albertus-Magnus-University in Cologne until 1998. After successfully passing his bar exam, he practiced law as an attorney specialized in tenancy law.

Klaus-Dieter Büttgen joined THW in 2008. He filled the position of Deputy Head Operations until 2009, when he became Head of Operations Division, North Rhine-Westphalia State Bureau.

Beginning of 2014, he transferred to THW Headquarters in Bonn, as Deputy Head of General Affairs Division, specialized in Safety & Security Research.

Since April 2015, the former Safety & Security Research Team has been reorganised as Staff Unit Research and Innovation Management, Klaus-Dieter Büttgen being the Head of Staff Unit.