Karsten Voigt (politician)

Karsten Voigt (1973)

Karsten Voigt, 1985

Karsten Dietrich Voigt (born April 11, 1941 in Elmshorn ) is a German politician ( SPD ). From 1976 to 1998 he was a member of the German Bundestag .

Life

Voigt was born in 1941 as the son of an art publisher and a doctor. After graduating from high school in 1960, he studied history , German and Scandinavian studies at the universities of Hamburg , Copenhagen and Frankfurt from 1960–1969 at the St. Georg State Evening High School in Hamburg . He then became a research associate at the Hamburg Adult Education Center , of which he was deputy director until 1976.

From 1969 to 1972 he was federal chairman and from 1972 to 1973 deputy federal chairman of the Jusos and thus the first Juso chairman after the left turn . In the general election in 1976 Voigt was the first time in the Bundestag voted. The SPD parliamentary group elected him deputy foreign policy chairman in 1976 and its foreign policy spokesman in 1983; he held this office until he left the German Bundestag in 1998. From 1977 to 1998 he was a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO and from 1989 to 1993 its chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security, from 1992 to 1994 its vice-president and from 1994 to 1996 its president. From 1973 to 2019 Voigt was a member of the SPD's commission for international politics, for several years as its chairman.
Voigt is (as of 2019) a member of the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Initiative . He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, the Board of Trustees of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, the Board of Trustees of the Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, and the European Leadership Network in London.

From 1999 to 2010 he was the federal government's coordinator for German-American cooperation; his successor was Harald Leibrecht .

Awards

• 1983: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1986 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1995 Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1995 Grand Cross on Ribbon with Star of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Hungary
• 1998 Commander with Star of the Republic of Poland
• 1998 Large Silver Medal of Honor with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 2001 Manfred Wörner Medal
• 2003 Honorary Doctorate from Fairleigh Dickinson University
• 2008 Lucius D. Clay Medal
• 2017 The Volkmar and Margret Sander Prize of the Deutsches Haus at the New York University "for outstanding contributions to the cultural relationship between the German speaking world and the United States"

Publications

• Karsten Voigt: The future of the USA . 15 questions and answers on American politics and history. 2012 ( Download [PDF]).
• No German policy towards Russia over the heads of our neighbors! Article in the ipg journal

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 904.

Web links

Commons : Karsten Voigt  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Biography at the German Bundestag
• Interview (May 11, 2018)

Footnotes

1. ↑ Transatlantic of the Day: Karsten Voigt. August 8, 2008, accessed June 23, 2011 . 
2. ↑ Association members and advisory board. (No longer available online.) Atlantische Initiative eV, archived from the original on November 9, 2014 ; Retrieved August 20, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ^ The Coordinator for Transatlantic Cooperation. Federal Foreign Office, October 12, 2010, accessed March 22, 2011 . 
4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)