Christian Von Deimling
Partnerschaft Deutschland
In February 2025, Christian von Deimling left the Bundeswehr University Munich and joined the in-house consulting unit for public procurement, named "Partnerschaft Deutschland", becoming part of the expert group "Sourcing and Cooperation." In this role, he works as a specialist on various initiatives aimed at improving public procurement practices.
He held the endowed junior professorship for General Business Administration, in particular for Industrial Procurement, at the Department of Economics and Management since November 1, 2019. He has also been a member of the management team in the Procurement Department at the Bundeswehr University Munich.
In research, consulting and teaching, Christian von Deimling focuses on issues in industrial supply management and public procurement. He is interested in changes and future developments in supply management (understood as a function in companies and organizations with a significant influence on their market position). Therefore, he is intensively concerned with the development and successful introduction of supply and procurement strategies, with the role and use of life cycle costs for different decision gates in investment projects as well as with the design and the success of cooperative purchasing.
After studying business administration at the University of Bayreuth and Linköping University in Sweden, Christisan von Deimling started his career as a management consultant in the area of supply chain management/integrated planning and worked for project partners in the private sector industry (with a focus on the chemicals industry) and in the public sector (with a focus on the defense sector.
He completed his PhD-thesis with honours at the Bundeswehr University Munich on the subject of "Komplexitätsmanagement in multinationalen Einkaufskooperationen am Beispiel des Verteidigungssektor" (Complexity Management in Multinational Cooperative Defense Procurement Initiatives).