Klaus-Heinrich Standke

Klaus-Heinrich Standke (born July 3, 1935 in Remscheid ) is a German economist and international science politician in international government organizations ( OECD , EIRMA, United Nations , UNESCO ). He is the founding president of the Committee for the Promotion of German-French-Polish Cooperation eV (Weimar Triangle).

family

Klaus-Heinrich Standke has been married to Christina Freiin von Welck since 1989. Two sons (Eckhart Achatus, * 1964 in Berlin, and Christian Donatus, * 1968 in Paris) from their first marriage to Minette von Krosigk.

Education and professional activity

Standke began his career at the age of 16 as an apprentice at Stahlwerke Röchling-Buderus AG in Wetzlar . After holding positions in companies in the steel and electrical industry in Essen , London and Paris , he passed the so-called Abitur (examination for admission to university studies without a school leaving examination) at a commission appointed by the Hessian Ministry of Science at the Goethe-Gymnasium Frankfurt in 1960 . This was followed by a degree in economics at the Technical University of Berlin, interrupted by a study of literature at the Université de Paris à la Sorbonne . In 1964 he became a business graduate and in 1970 a Dr. rer. pole. PhD .

From 1966 to 1974 he was a counselor in the scientific directorate of the OECD , Paris. From 1969 to 1974 he was released from this position as Secretary General of the European Industrial Research Management Association (EIRMA), Paris, which was founded under the auspices of the OECD and to which around 170 of the most research-intensive industrial companies in Europe belong. After the Federal Republic of Germany joined the UN, he was the first German to be appointed Director of Science and Technology at the United Nations, New York (1974–1980).

From 1980 to 1990 he was Executive Director in the Science Sector of UNESCO , Paris and most recently, until 1999, in the rank of Assistant Director General, he was honorary special advisor to the Director General. From 1990 to 1995 he was President of the OstWestWirtschaftsAkademie (OWWA), Berlin, a joint establishment of the Berlin Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the BDI and DIHT as well as around 70 German industrial companies, banks and consulting firms. In 1995 he was appointed honorary professor at the Poznan University of Economics and Business and also held teaching positions at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), Paris-Jouay-en-Josass, as well as at the Eastern European Institute of the Free University and at the University of Potsdam .

Research priorities

International cooperation: International competitiveness, transatlantic relations, East-West relations, North-South cooperation, European integration, in particular EU eastward expansion, Franco-German relations, Germany-France-Poland (" Weimar Triangle "), science and technology policy, Research and innovation management, location Berlin: East-West competence and science city, new federal states.

Publications (selection)

Author or co-author of 10 books or independent publications, editor of 15 books or independent publications.
Author of around 200 articles in magazines, newspapers, scientific compilations and electronic media on topics of international cooperation and science and technology policy cooperation.

American investment policy in the EEC, RKW, Frankfurt / M.1965
Trade with the East. Economic relations with the state trading countries, Nomos, Baden-Baden 1968, 1972
Gaps in Technology between Member States of the OECD: Sector Report on Pharmaceuticals, OECD, Paris 1968
Gaps in Technology between Member States of the OECD: Sector Report on Plastics, OECD, Paris 1968
European research policy in competition (dissertation) Nomos, Baden-Baden 1970
Technology Assessment for Development, United Nations, New York 1979
Science and Technology and Global Problems, United Nations and Pergamon Press, New York 1979
Science, Technology and Society: Needs, Challenges and Limitations, United Nations and Pergamon Press, New York 1979
Science and Technology for the Future: A Fresh Look at International Co-operation, UNESCO, Paris 1989, 1990
Science and Technology for the Future of Europe: New Forms of Co-operation between East and West, UNESCO, Venice 1991
Science and Technology Policy in the Service of a Greater Europe, Campus, Frankfurt / M. 1994
International cooperation in Greater Europe, Berlin 1997
EU and NATO eastward expansion. Political, economic and social consequences for Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic, Berlin 1998
Opportunities for East German SMEs in International Competition: SME Policy-Export Strategies and Innovative Capability, 1998
On Berlin's East-West Competence - Attempting a Diagnosis, Berlin 1998
The Eastern Enlargement of the EU - The State of Things, Berlin 2000
The EXPO-2010 as a solution mechanism for important human issues at the beginning of the new century. Foreword: Mikhail S. Gorbatschow, Moscow 2002
The Impact of International Organizations on National Science and Technology Policy and on Global Governance, Potsdam 2003
How knowledge becomes work: The innovation location Berlin (together with Manfred Ronzheimer), Berlin 2004
The Weimar Triangle in Europe: German-French-Polish cooperation. Origin-Potentials-Perspektiven, Adam Marszalek Verlag, Thorn 2009

Honors

1992 Cross of Merit First Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

1993 Honorary Doctorate from Poznan University of Economics and Business

1994 Honorary doctorate from Moscow International University

2003 full member, European Academy of Sciences and Arts , Salzburg

2007 Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland .

2010 Président d'honneur, Mouvement Européen France, Section de Cabourg

2011 honorary member, Rotary Club Berlin-Mickiewicz

2011 entry in the Golden Book of the city of Weimar

2012 Médaille commémorative Franco-Allemande, Observatoire des Relations Franco-Allemandes pour la Construction Européenne, Paris

2013 Médaille commémorative du Traité de l'Elysée 1963–2013, Union des Gaullistes de France, Paris

2013 Maria Pavlovna Medal, Weimar

2013 Honorary Member, Rotary Club, Cabourg

2013 Knight in the Order of the French Legion of Honor

2013 Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland

2015 Paul Harris Fellow, Rotary International

2015 POLONUS Prize for the German-Polish dialogue, Szczecin

2018 Médaille du Mérite Franco-Allemand pour services rendues à la cause franco-allemande, Fédération des Associations Franco-Allemandes pour l'Europe (FAFA), Paris

2018 Honorary Committee '100 years of Poland regaining independence', Polish Embassy, Berlin

2019 Médaille du Traité de l'Élysée. Observatoire des Relations Franco-Allemandes pour la Construction Européenne et Center des Hautes Etudes Franco-Allemandes pour l'Europe, Paris.

Current and previous memberships in voluntary bodies (selection)

Founding President of the Committee for the Promotion of German-French-Polish Cooperation eV (" Weimar Triangle ")
Founding President, Cercle Franco-Allemand Stéphane Hessel - German-French Stéphane Hessel Circle i. G.
Member of the Board of Directors, German-French Society for Science and Technology eV (DFGWT / AFAST), Bonn / Paris
Chairman, Berlin Committee for UNESCO Work eVBerlin
Member of the Presidium, German Society for the United Nations, Berlin State Association
Founding member, Association of German Employees at International Organizations (VDBIO), Geneva
Member, German Society for Foreign Policy eV, Berlin
Member of the discussion group France / Franco-German relations of the German Society for Foreign Policy eV, Berlin
Member of the discussion group Poland / German-Polish relations of the German Society for Foreign Policy eV, Berlin
Chairman of the International Advisory Board, Technology Partners Foundation, Warsaw
Member, United Nations Expert Group, Advance Technology Alert System (ATAS), New York
Member of the President's Council, New York Academy of Sciences , New York
Special Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO, Paris
Associate member, German-American Academic Council (DAAK)
Special Advisor for Central and Eastern Europe, The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, London
Member of the Scientific Advisory Board, The Black Sea University, Bucharest
Member of the Board of Trustees, Kulturstiftung Haus Europa, Berlin
Member, Rotary Club Berlin-Kurfürstendamm, fr. Rotary Club New York
Member, German Society of Members of the French Legion of Honor eV, Berlin
Member of the German section of the German-French country committee of Rotary International
Member of the German section of the German-Polish country committee of Rotary International
Member of the Society of Friends of the Technical University Berlin eV
Member of the Advisory Board, House for the United Nations, Berlin
Member of the Honorary Committee of the Polish Embassy Berlin '100. Anniversary of Poland regaining independence

literature

Who is Who in Germany? . Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2008
Who is Who in the United Nations . New York 1975

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personal data
SURNAME	Standke, Klaus-Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German economist and international science politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 3, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH	Remscheid