Josef Thesing

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Josef Gerhard Thesing (* 1937 in Alstätte ) was Deputy Secretary General of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation .

Life

Josef Thesing studied political science at the Munich School of Politics from 1961 to 1964 . From 1965 he became an employee of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS). From 1966 to 1973 he was the KAS representative in Guatemala and Colombia ; from 1984 to 2002 head of the International Institute of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation; from 2000 to 2002 also Deputy Secretary General. In 1978 he founded the Office for International Cooperation (BIS). Active retirement since 2003, u. a. Board member of Ordo socialis, a scientific association for the promotion of Christian social teaching eV, Cologne; Honorary Chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the Museum of Jewish History in Poland eV, Berlin; Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German-Polish Society Cologne-Bonn.

From 1989 he set up the KAS branch in Warsaw , Poland . In 1991 he became a member of the German-Polish Society Cologne / Bonn (DPG), from 1998 to 2000 a managing board member of the DPG, from 2005 to 2007 he was chairman of the DPG.

From 2005 to 2013 he was chairman of the Association for the Promotion of the Museum of Jewish History in Poland. He is on the board of the nationwide Association Against Forgetting - For Democracy .

Josef Thesing is married and has three children. He has been a member of the Catholic student union KDStV Aenania Munich in CV since 1961 .

Thesing has published over 70 books in 23 languages. From 1990 to 2005 he was a lecturer at the University of Cologne .

Honors

He has received numerous high foreign orders and honors, such as an honorary doctorate and an honorary professor at the Rafael Landívar Catholic University (Universidad Rafael Landivar de Ciudad de Guatemala) , honorary doctorates from the University of Economics in Prague and the Catholic University in Córdoba / Argentina; and the Federal Cross of Merit 1st class . In 2008 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Ordo socialis: Brief biographies of the members of the Executive Board , accessed on September 25, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Thesing, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thesing, Josef Gerhard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German political scientist, journalist, Deputy Secretary General of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
DATE OF BIRTH 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Alstätte