Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz

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Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz (born April 6, 1942 at Gut Gödelitz) is a German political scientist, economist, journalist and farmer with a doctorate.

Life

Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz was the fourth child of the farmer Helmut Schmidt-Gödelitz and his wife Johanna, geb. Hänel, born. In 1946 he and his family fled from the Gut Gödelitz family estate to the West and later graduated from high school in Ulm . He then studied political science and economics at the Free University of Berlin until 1969 . Research stays in Morocco and France followed .

Until 1976 he worked as a freelance journalist. From 1976 to 1982 he was a consultant at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in East Berlin . For the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung he worked as coordinator of the development projects from 1982 to 1986 in Cairo and directly afterwards until 1990 in Beijing . He then took over the position of head of the foundation's Berlin office until 2003 .

In 1998 he founded the east-west forum Gut Gödelitz . He is a member of the Willy Brandt Circle .

On May 3, 2010, he received the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his services to the East-West Dialogue .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz. In: Association ost-west-forum Gut Gödelitz e. V .; accessed on January 15, 2019.
  2. ↑ For 25 years: Biography talks at Gut Gödelitz near Döbeln Why Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz brings East and West into conversation. MDR Kultur , January 12, 2019.
  3. ↑ Adina Rieckmann: Mr. Gözüakça speaks. The time 40/2011, September 29, 2011.
  4. ↑ Burga Kalinowski: When everything starts to slide. Dreamer, commuter, mediator Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz has transformed the family estate into an east-west forum. Friday 10 December 2004.
  5. ^ Members of the Willy Brandt Circle - Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz ; accessed on January 15, 2019.
  6. ↑ Ulf Mallek: Podium in the sheepfold. Axel Schmidt-Gödelitz attracts a lot of celebrities for discussions on his estate near Döbeln. Saxon newspaper , May 4, 2010.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Gödelitz, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, economist, farmer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Gödelitz