Atlantic bridge

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Atlantic bridge
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legal form registered association
founding 1952
founder John J. McCloy

Eric Moritz Warburg

Seat Am Kupfergraben 7, 10117 Berlin
Chair Sigmar Gabriel
Members about 500
Website www.atlantik-bruecke.org

The Atlantik-Brücke e. V. was founded in 1952 as a private, non-partisan and non-profit association with the aim of building an economic, financial, educational and military-political bridge between the United States and Germany .

Today, around 500 leading personalities from banking and finance, business, politics, media and science are among the members of the Atlantik-Brücke . The Atlantik-Brücke acts as a network and a private political advisory institute. The association is based in the Magnus House in Berlin.

Association and purpose

The Magnus House in Berlin-Mitte

The association is based in Berlin and, according to its statutes, pursues “educational, scientific, cultural and charitable purposes as well as promoting international understanding. The association wants to promote vocational and popular education on a national and international level, especially in the United States of America, Canada and Europe. In addition, the association wants to promote understanding for Germany in other states, especially in the United States of America, Canada and the European states, as well as understanding for the aforementioned states in Germany and thus contribute to friendship between Germany and other states . "

The organs of the association are the general assembly and the board of directors (§ 5), which is supported by an International Advisory Council in the exercise of its tasks (§ 8).

The association is financed through membership fees. Individual events are selectively funded by companies and institutions such as Deutsche Bank , the private bank MMWarburg & CO , the Nomura Holdings Investment Bank, the Deutsche Bundesbank , the DZ Bank , the technology group IABG , Volkswagen AG and the Foreign Office .

Regular membership and young leader alumni meetings are held in New York City and Washington, DC .

history

Initiator of the Atlantic Bridge John Jay McCloy
Founding member Countess Dönhoff

The transatlantic association was founded in 1952 in Hamburg by the bankers Eric M. Warburg and Gotthard Freiherr von Falkenhausen , the entrepreneur and politician Erik Blumenfeld , the two publicists and editors of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , Marion Countess Dönhoff and Ernst Friedlaender , the entrepreneur Hans Karl von Borries and the President of the German Industry and Trade Conference , Albert Schäfer , initially as a transatlantic bridge. The former president of the World Bank , director of the private US think tank for shaping the US foreign policy Council on Foreign Relations ( CFR ) and CEO of Rockefeller's Chase Manhattan Bank , John J. McCloy , played a decisive role as initiator . The mayor of Hamburg, Max Brauer, and the mayor of West Berlin, Ernst Reuter , acted as patrons . On January 18, 1955, the association was registered at the Hamburg District Court . The elite network, renamed Atlantik-Brücke on July 4, 1956, is considered to be "one of the most influential and exclusive organizations in the Berlin Republic".

Since its foundation, the main focus of the association has been on promoting personal encounters between German and American executives from business and intellectual life. Shortly after the founding of the association, Countess Dönhoff named the long-term goal of resembling private policy advisory institutions such as the British Chatham House and the US Council on Foreign Relations . In the age of mass democracy and media effectiveness, the Atlantik-Brücke saw itself as part of public opinion, which the association had to influence with every possible means. As a result, Atlantik-Brücke wanted to function as a private, non-governmental think tank and to shape opinion with proposed solutions. In 1981 the FAZ devoted extensive journalistic space to this basic approach to the Atlantik-Brücke . Alluding to the system of private companies widespread in the USA, “which do not have to decide, but still belong to the decision-making background” and are therefore an incredibly new experience in Germany, it was said that “a purist of democracy could have reservations about such elitist co-determination groups ".

From 1957 to 1970 the association published the English-language information sheet Meet Germany for US soldiers stationed in Germany. In 1963 this was supplemented by seminars for US officers, which continue to this day. Annual expert talks with the United States European Command have taken place in Magnus House since 1990 , at which German and American generals meet with representatives from politics, business and the media. By the fiftieth anniversary of Atlantik-Brücke in 2002, over nine thousand American officers had attended these seminars.

Further seminars, conferences, young leader meetings, round-table discussions and honors are regularly held in the association's rooms, institutions and corporations that are friendly. The Atlantik-Brücke is a founding member of the New Traditions Network , a network of 60 pro-American think tanks, foundations and government organizations based in Germany that is coordinated by the US Embassy in Berlin .

When relations between Germany and the United States were strained in 2002/2003 , on February 16, 2003, Atlantik-Brücke placed the solidarity display A Message from Germany - a message from Germany for 140,000 US dollars in the Sunday edition of the New York Times . The full-page message was also printed in German in the FAZ , Die Welt and the Financial Times Deutschland .

On March 12, 2010, an event of the association was broadcast on public television for the first time in cooperation with the television broadcaster Phoenix . On March 10, 2010, the Atlantik-Brücke held a meeting at the Helmut Schmidt University / University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg with members of the former Federal Chancellor. D., Helmut Schmidt, and the Federal Minister of Defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg , on the subject of "Bundeswehr in action: Afghanistan hotspot". The discussion was moderated by the chairman of the Atlantik-Brücke, Friedrich Merz .

Friedrich Merz
Friedrich Merz , German lawyer, manager and politician of the CDU, here on February 1, 2017 in the international Munich press club.

On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the association in the German Historical Museum in Berlin on July 2, 2012, Chancellor Angela Merkel gave the appropriate speeches to “Dear Friedrich Merz, the Warburg family , Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt , Excellencies and dear friends and members of the Atlantic -Bridge". Under the motto 60 Years of Transatlantic Relations , around 170 Young Leaders alumni of Atlantik-Brücke met in Berlin on the morning of July 2, 2012. The occasion of the conference was also the 60th anniversary of the Atlantik-Brücke . The then Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle spoke to the Young Leaders on the subject of “Partners in Responsibility”. The host was the European School of Management and Technology . On its 60th birthday, the Atlantik-Brücke published 14 interviews on YouTube with Henry Kissinger , Angela Merkel, Guido Westerwelle, Kai Diekmann , Richard von Weizsäcker , Walther Leisler Kiep and other long-term members.

The association's office was initially in Hamburg, moved to Villa Adenauerallee 131 in Bonn in order to seek direct contact with politics, and has therefore been in Berlin since July 1999, in the house next to the private apartment of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

In 2010, several board members, including initially chairman Friedrich Merz, resigned from their offices after honorary chairman Walther Leisler Kiep had criticized Merz sharply and asked him to resign in a letter. To the displeasure of Kieps, Merz had publicly accused “the political class, especially Angela Merkel, of a lack of political leadership”. Merz, who started as the modernizer of the “honorable institution” Atlantik-Brücke , ran again and was re-elected with great approval. The new course from Merz sees u. a. an emancipation from the economic and financial future strategies of American think tanks.

Structures

The association is managed by the board of directors, which is supported by an international advisory committee.

Board

Status: July 24, 2019

Surname function further activities and memberships
Sigmar Gabriel Chairman SPD , former Federal Chairman of the SPD, Vice Chancellor, Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Chairman of the SPD parliamentary group in the German Bundestag, Prime Minister of Lower Saxony, Member of the Lower Saxony State Parliament
Friedrich Merz Board member CDU , until 1989 Association of the Chemical Industry , Mayer Brown LLP, Berlin; Member of the Trilateral Commission , Board of Directors of Commerzbank AG, BASF , HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG
Edelgard Bulmahn vice-chairman SPD , until 2017 Vice-President of the German Bundestag and member of the Foreign Affairs Committee , Chairwoman of The German Group of the Trilateral Commission
Burkhard Schwenker Deputy Chairman Roland Berger Strategy Consultants , Hamburg
Andreas R. Dombret Treasurer Board member of the Deutsche Bundesbank , board member at the Bank for International Settlements
David Deissner executive Director
Kai Diekmann Board member Former editor-in-chief of the BILD Group, former editor-in-chief of Bild , Bild am Sonntag
Jürgen Fitschen Board member Former CEO of Deutsche Bank AG, member of the Trilateral Commission , American Academy Berlin
Angelica Gifford Board member Managing Director Hewlett Packard Germany
Jürgen Grossmann Board member Former CEO of RWE AG, supervisory / advisory board a. a. Deutsche Bahn AG, Volkswagen AG , British American Tobacco , member of the American Council on Germany
Ingrid Hengster Board member Former director of Royal Bank of Scotland plc, director of Reconstruction Loan Corporation (KfW)
Reiner Hoffmann Board member Chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB)
Michael Hüther Board member Economic researcher and director of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research
Wolfgang Ischinger Board member Chairman of the Munich Security Conference , Global Head of Government Relations and member of the Allianz SE Supervisory Board , member of the Trilateral Commission , Council ECFR , American Academy Berlin , American Jewish Committee , Science and Politics Foundation
Eckart of Klaeden Board member CDU, Head of the Politics and External Relations Department at Daimler AG , Member of the Bundestag until 2013, Minister of State for the Chancellor from 2009 to 2013 , Aspen Institute Berlin, Atlantic Initiative , DGAP
Alexander Count Lambsdorff Board member FDP , MdB , German Bundestag (since 2017), former MEP , Europ. Parliament , member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs , DGAP , Council ECFR , founding member of the Atlantic Initiative , member of the advisory board of the American Jewish Committee
Christian Lange Board member SPD, Parliamentary Managing Director of the SPD parliamentary group, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Minister of Justice and Consumer Protection
Omid Nouripour Board member Member of the Bundestag, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee
Norbert Röttgen Board member CDU, Member of the Bundestag, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the German Bundestag
Karsten Uhlmann Board member Head of the Frankfurter Brauhaus GmbH
Max Warburg Board member Head of the Investment & Private Bank MMWarburg & CO
Michael Werz Board member Center for American Progress, Washington DC
Ute Wolf Board member CFO of Evonik Industries AG, Essen

International Advisory Council

As of December 5, 2017

Surname Functions and memberships
John Bryson US Secretary of Commerce ( Democratic Party ), until 2008 Chairman of the Board of Edison International
James L. Jones National Security Advisor to the US Government ( Democratic Party ), (membership suspended since 2009 due to position as security advisor)
Philip D. Murphy 2009–2013 US Ambassador to Germany , Democratic Party , previously CEO Goldman Sachs Asia,
Fernando Becalli-Falco Chairman of the Board of General Electric , Trilateral Commission , Board of Directors Center for European Studies at Harvard University
Arend Oetker Dr. Arend Oetker Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Member of the Trilateral Commission , President DGAP , INSM , Presidium of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations , Vice President BDI , American Jewish Committee
Roland Berger Roland Berger Strategy Consultants , Investment Company Berger Lahnstein Middelhoff & Partners LLP, Council ECFR
Werner Wenning until 2010 Board Member Bayer AG , Supervisory Board E.ON AG, Evonik Industries AG, Deutsche Bank AG
Ekkehard Schulz until 2011 Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp AG
Rupert Stadler CEO of Audi AG
Ratan Tata CEO of the Tata Group
Günter Blobel American biochemist, Rockefeller University , 1999 Nobel Prize in Medicine
Ulrich Steger Economist, professor at the International Institute for Management Development , manager

membership

Member of Chancellor Angela Merkel
Honorary member Richard von Weizsäcker

Membership is only possible through nomination and co-option by the board. On June 1, 2010, the association had 493 members, including 252 from business, 82 from politics, 40 from the media, 27 from science, 14 from associations, unions and foundations and 78 from independent professional groups. The annual membership fee is 300 euros for members of the Bundestag and 1000 euros for other members.

Current members include Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel , the former Chairman of Deutsche Bank AG Jürgen Fitschen , the former Chairman of the Board of Management of Goldman Sachs Germany Alexander Dibelius , the Chairman of Axel Springer SE Mathias Döpfner , who switched to Daimler-Benz , former State Secretary of Angela Merkel Eckart von Klaeden , his brother, the head of government relations at Axel Springer SE, Dietrich von Klaeden, the former SPD chairman and Federal Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel , the CEO of EADS ( Airbus ) Thomas Enders and the former Porsche board member Martin Winterkorn , as well as the President of the Deutsche Bundesbank Jens Weidmann and the CEO of the Deutsche Bundesbank Andreas Raymond Dombret , who sit on the board of directors of the Bank for International Settlements in Basel, known as the “Bank of Central Banks” , and Michael Vassiliadis , chairman of the industrial union Mining, chemistry, energy .

Members of the board of trustees of the affiliated Atlantik-Brücke Foundation include the former Federal Defense Minister Volker Rühe and the presenter of the ZDF news program Heute-Journal Claus Kleber .

The number of members is growing steadily. When it was founded, the Atlantik-Brücke had seven members, 25 at the end of 1957, 47 at the end of 1962, 57 at the end of 1967, 75 at the end of 1972, 79 at the end of 1977, 159 in the spring of 1982, 280 in 1992 and finally 493 in 2010 .

Young Leaders

The Young Leaders Program (Engl. "Young leaders") of the Atlantic Bridge is aimed at young, emerging leaders, leading to the annual German-American and European conferences are invited. During the conferences, the participants discuss current security, foreign, economic and social issues in plenary sessions and working groups. Practical solutions and recommendations for transatlantic decision-makers are found in this way, according to the association. The German-American Young Leaders Conference has been held every year since 1973 .

23 June 2010 established alumni of the Young Leaders to initially close to the Atlantic Bridge ajar independent association Atlantic Forum e. V. - the Young Leaders alumni of the Atlantik-Brücke . In 2012, the name was changed to Global Bridges in order to better respond to the association's expanded focus on Asia (especially China). With the corresponding amendment to the statutes, the regulation on cooperation with Atlantik-Brücke was also repealed.

A number of participants in the Young Leader program later became members of the Atlantik-Brücke (e.g. Mathias Döpfner , Eckart von Klaeden , Friedbert Pflüger , Thomas Enders , Kai Diekmann ) or acquired management positions (e.g. Karl -Theodor zu Guttenberg , Thomas Oppermann , Jens Spahn , Thomas de Maizière , Michael Kolz ).

Conferences, seminars, working and regional groups

With conferences and expert discussions, the association offers German and American experts and decision-makers from business, politics, science, the media and the armed forces a platform for dialogue. These include, for example:

Expert discussions with the United States European Command
then Admiral James G. Stavridis
On February 1, 2011, the association invited the commander of the United States European Command and the US Component Commanders to the Magnus House for the 19th time with the military leadership of the German Armed Forces and high-ranking representatives from politics, media and science. At the one-day meetings, u. a. discussed the future of the Bundeswehr and the NATO strategy. These annual meetings between the military leadership of the US armed forces in Germany and Europe and the Bundeswehr came into being after the fall of the Iron Curtain. Traditionally, the American ambassador opens the meeting with a joint dinner in his residence the evening before. The then Admiral James G. Stavridis commented on the expert discussions as follows: “These meetings, with the mix of military, politicians, business leaders, think tanks and media that Atlantik-Brücke brings, continue to create important venues for honest dialogue required to keep our Atlantik-Bridge strong. We are in fact stronger together. "
Meeting seminars for German and American officers
The seminars have been held several times a year since the 1960s and are funded by the association and the Federal Agency for Political Education . Representatives from politics and think tanks will present analyzes that they will discuss with the participants.
USA working group
Since 1984, members of the Atlantik-Brücke have been meeting three times a year with external experts from think tanks and the media for an intensive round-table discussion on transatlantic issues, the USA working group . Once a year, the focus is on economics and finance, once on questions of foreign and security policy and once on a current topic. Traditionally, two guest speakers give impulses, which are then discussed together under the guidance of economic experts such as Ulrich Steger . The first meeting of the year traditionally takes place in Frankfurt am Main on the premises of the second largest law firm in the world, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP.
Working groups
Edelgard Bulmahn , AG Climate and Energy
The transatlantic working groups are led by the board of directors of Atlantik-Brücke . The association currently offers the working groups economy, finance and markets , the working group climate and energy , the working group culture, education and science , a working group communication and a working group foreign and security policy for its members.
Regional groups
The aim of the regional groups is the more intensive involvement of each individual in the activities and development of the Atlantik-Brücke and better networking among each other.
The regions are divided into Berlin / Brandenburg with director Kai Diekmann , former editor-in-chief of Bild-Zeitung and BamS , Munich / Region Süd with director Angelika Gifford from Microsoft , the region Frankfurt / Hessen with director Ingrid Hengster from the Royal Bank of Scotland , the region Rhein-Ruhr with conductor Alexander Graf Lambsdorff and the region Dresden / Leipzig with Minister Roland Wöller as a conductor. The Hamburg / North region is headed by Max Warburg (grandson of the banker Max Warburg ), MMWarburg & CO.

American Council on Germany & Council on Foreign Relations

Former chairman of the FED Paul Volcker

The Atlantik-Brücke cannot be separated from its sister institution American Council on Germany , also founded in 1952 by John J. McCloy and Eric M. Warburg . The American Council on Germany is a non-governmental organization (NGO) which is affiliated with the Council on Foreign Relations .

There has always been a lively exchange of information and personnel between Atlantik-Brücke and the ACG. An example of this type of gathering was the German-American Conferences, which were launched in 1959 and were held alternately in Germany and the USA in close collaboration with the American Council on Germany . "The American Council on Germany has always been a strong actor in our relations with the United States", as the State Minister of the Foreign Office and Atlantik-Brücke member Werner Hoyer stated in December 2011.

Merit prizes or awards

The association has created several merit awards: the Vernon A. Walters Award , named after the US secret service general Vernon A. Walters , as well as the Eric M. Warburg Prize , in memory of the banker Eric M. Warburg . It honors personalities who have made a name for themselves for special merits in the transatlantic relationship and, in the case of Bertelsmann heiress Liz Mohn, for German-Israeli relations. Henry Kissinger , George HW Bush , Condoleezza Rice , Helmut Kohl and Angela Merkel were among the winners . In 2012, founding member, close friend of Eric M. Warburg and former Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt received the award. Angela Merkel gave the laudation in the German Historical Museum .

criticism

Some members such as Casimir Prinz zu Sayn-Wittgenstein , Karlheinz Schreiber and Dieter Holzer were involved in the CDU's black money affair at the end of the 1990s. The historian Anne Zetsche criticizes that the transnational state-private network only partly consists of politically legitimized persons and that there are no factual or national limits to its influence. Through massive influence it contributed to dissuade the German Social Democrats from their anti-military and neutralist course in the 1950s. The bridge also exerts a considerable influence through its numerous members from the media landscape. The media influence is not always evident, even "when - as happened with Anne Will - several members of the Atlantik-Brücke sit on a TV program to discuss Syria in a 'controversial' way."

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of the Atlantic Bridge. October 23, 2016, accessed on July 22, 2019 (German).
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  5. ^ Ludger Kühnhardt : Atlantik-Brücke: Fifty Years of German-US-American Partnership , p. 189
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  21. ^ A message from Germany full-page advertisement of the Atlantik-Brücke in the New York Times, February 16, 2002( Memento from February 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.9 MB)
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