Inter Nationes
Inter Nationes was a registered association that was founded in Bonn in 1952 and existed until 2000. On September 21, 2000, the association merged with the Goethe Institute , which from 2001 to 2003 was called the “Goethe Institute Inter Nationes”. The purpose of the association was the production and distribution of information material about German cultural assets abroad.
founding
The establishment of Inter Nationes goes back to efforts by the federal government under Konrad Adenauer in the summer of 1951 to set up a public relations organization in the USA . The initiative then came from the Federal Press Office , which hired the New York company "The Roy Bernard Co." under the direction of Roy Blumenthal. Blumenthal needed an office to support him in Bonn, where "Inter Nationes" was founded for this purpose - initially as an office of the Federal Press Office. The director was Richard Mönnig , who had already headed the similar Terra-Mare Office in the Weimar Republic from 1925 to 1933 and also served the state foreign propaganda from 1933 to 1945 . In January 1953, Inter Nationes was converted into a registered association (e.V.): Chairman was Mönnig, Federal Press Chief Felix von Eckardt was appointed Chairman of the Administrative Council , members of the Administrative Council were State Secretary Walter Hallstein (CDU), Carlo Schmid , Member of the Bundestag (SPD) ), and Rudolf Vogel , Member of the Bundestag (CDU).
activity
In the following years, Inter Nationes became active worldwide and distributed information and literature about Germany through the diplomatic missions and later through the Goethe Institutes all over the world.
In Bonn, Inter Nationes organized the care of foreign state guests and state visits.
Merger with the Goethe Institute
From the mid-1990s, the association came under increasing criticism for a lack of spending control. In the course of the austerity measures of the new red-green federal government from 1999, cooperation negotiations between Inter Nationes and the Goethe-Institut were initiated, which then led to the merger of the two associations in 2000. The last General Secretary of Inter Nationes was Peter Sötje (SPD).
Known employees
- Max Rudolf Kaufmann , Swiss journalist and publicist - worked for Inter Nationes from 1952 to 1963, head of the "Orient Department" (Turkey and the Middle East). Kaufmann had worked in Istanbul for the Ottoman Lloyd (employee of Friedrich Schrader ) until 1916 and from 1916 to 1918 in Berlin for the news office for the Orient (headed by Eugen Wednesday ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Public Relations - Milder Klima , on the activities of Inter Nationes in the USA, Der Spiegel 8/1953, February 18, 1953
- ↑ Pit im Glück , Der Spiegel 19/1965
- ↑ Martin Ebner: Happy agreement for culture - Goethe-Institut and Inter Nationes want to work more closely in future and thus save the Federal Republic of money together , taz No. 5911, August 13, 1999, p. 5