List of members of the Atlantic Bridge
| Atlantik-Brücke e. V. | |
|---|---|
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| legal form | registered association |
| founding | 1952 |
| founder | John J. McCloy , Eric Moritz Warburg |
| Seat | Am Kupfergraben 7, 10117 Berlin |
| Chair | Sigmar Gabriel |
| Members | about 500 |
| Website | www.atlantik-bruecke.org |
Membership in the Atlantik-Brücke is only possible through nomination and co-option by the board. On June 1, 2010, Atlantik-Brücke had 493 members, including 252 from business, 82 from politics, 40 from the media, 27 from science, 14 from associations, unions and foundations and 78 from independent professional groups.
Founding members
| Surname | Functions and memberships |
|---|---|
| Eric M. Warburg | Private banks MMWarburg & CO & EM Warburg, Pincus & Co. , 1941–1945 US Army officer |
| Ernst Friedländer | 1929–1931 co-director of IG Farben / Agfa , USA, 1934–1945 exile in Liechtenstein, 1946–1950 deputy editor-in-chief of Die Zeit , 1954–1957 President of Europa-Union Deutschland |
| Erik Blumenfeld | 1961–1980 MdB , 1973–1989 MEP , 1977–1991 President of the German-Israeli Society |
| Gotthard von Falkenhausen | Senior Head of Private and Transaction Bank HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG, 1960–1970 President / Vice President Chamber of Commerce and Industry , 1960–1967 President of the Association of German Banks (BdB) |
| Albert Schäfer | 1933–1946 Chairman of the Management Board of Phoenix-Gummiwerke AG , 1951–1954 President of the German Industry and Trade Congress |
| Hans Karl von Borries | Hamburg shipping entrepreneur |
| Marion Countess Dönhoff | Editor-in-chief / co-editor Die Zeit , 1955 member of the research committee for the establishment of the DGAP , founding member of the Aspen Institute Berlin |
| John J. McCloy | (not an official founding member, but with Warburg the main initiator of the Atlantik-Brücke) 1947–1949 President of the World Bank , 1949–1952 High Commissioner for the FRG , 1953–1960 Chairman of the Board of Chase Manhattan Bank , 1953–1970 Director of the Council on Foreign Relations |
Board of Directors (selection)
As of May 15, 2016
| Surname | function | further activities and memberships |
|---|---|---|
| Friedrich Merz | Chairman | CDU, until 1989 Association of the Chemical Industry , Mayer Brown LLP, Berlin; Member of the Trilateral Commission , Board of Directors of Commerzbank AG, BASF , HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG |
| Edelgard Bulmahn | vice-chairman | SPD, MdB, Member of the Foreign Affairs Committee , Chair of The German Group of the Trilateral Commission |
| Burkhard Schwenker | Deputy Chairman | Roland Berger Strategy Consultants , Hamburg |
| Andreas R. Dombret | Treasurer | 2001–2005: NM Rothschild & Sons , 2005–2009: Bank of America , since 2010: Director of the Deutsche Bundesbank , Director of the Bank for International Settlements |
| Eveline Y. Metzen | Manager | |
| Wolfgang Ischinger | Board member | Global Head of Government Relations and Supervisory Board member Allianz SE , member of the Trilateral Commission , Council ECFR , American Academy Berlin , American Jewish Committee , Foundation for Science and Politics |
| Jürgen Fitschen | Board member | Former CEO of Deutsche Bank AG, member of the Trilateral Commission , American Academy Berlin |
| Jürgen Grossmann | Board member | Former CEO of RWE AG, supervisory / advisory board a. a. Deutsche Bahn AG, Volkswagen AG , British American Tobacco , member of the American Council on Germany |
| Eckart of Klaeden | Board member | CDU, Head of the Politics and External Relations Department at Daimler AG , Member of the Bundestag until 2013, Minister of State for the Chancellor from 2009 to 2013 , Aspen Institute Berlin, Atlantic Initiative , DGAP |
| Christian Lange | Board member | SPD, parliamentary manager of the SPD parliamentary group |
| Alexander Count Lambsdorff | Board member | FDP, MEP, member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs , DGAP , Council ECFR , founding member of the Atlantic Initiative , member of the advisory board of the American Jewish Committee |
| Omid Nouripour | Board member | Member of the Bundestag, Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen , deputy member of the Foreign Affairs Committee |
| Max Warburg | Board member | Head of the Investment & Private Bank MMWarburg & CO |
| Ingrid Hengster | Board member | Former director of Royal Bank of Scotland plc, director of KfW |
| Reiner Hoffmann | Board member | Chairman of the German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB) |
| Kai Diekmann | Board member | Member of the “Public Policy Advisory Board” of Uber, former editor-in-chief of the Bild Group, former editor-in-chief of Bild , Bild am Sonntag |
Members (selection)
| Surname | Functions and memberships | Source: |
|---|---|---|
| Angela Merkel | CDU, incumbent Chancellor , 2000–2018 federal chairwoman of the CDU | |
| Philipp Rösler | FDP, 2009–2011 Federal Minister of Health , 2011–2013 Federal Minister of Economics and Technology and German Vice Chancellor and Federal Chairman of the FDP | |
| Sigmar Gabriel | SPD party chairman, Federal Foreign Minister and Vice Chancellor , 2013–2017 Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy , 2005–2009 Federal Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety | |
| Stefan Liebich | Die Linke , (until the end of 2018), since 2009 member of the German Bundestag , ADFC , German Society for Foreign Policy eV, German-Israeli Society, Association of Supporters of Tierpark Berlin and Zoological Garden Berlin , Helle Panke - Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung Berlin , Help - help for self-help (board member), Mauerpark Foundation Welt-BürgerPark, Solidarity Service International , ver.di , Association for Pankow , People's Solidarity , Scientific Advisory Committee of the BStU | |
| Patrick Döring | FDP, 2012–2013 FDP General Secretary | |
| Dorothee Bear | CSU, Deputy Secretary General CSU, member of the RTL Television Program Committee | |
| Markus Blume | CSU, member of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2008 | |
| Friedbert Pflüger | EPP , CDU, MEP, head of the raw materials working group of the Atlantik-Brücke, director of the European Center for Energy and Resource Security (EUCERS) | |
| Joachim Pfeiffer | CDU, Member of the Bundestag, economic policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group. | |
| Karl-Heinz Paqué | FDP, since 2007 Deputy Chair of the Federal Economic Committee, Initiative New Social Market Economy | |
| Karsten Voigt | SPD, 1999–2010 Federal Government Coordinator for German-American Cooperation, Aspen Institute Berlin, Atlantic Initiative , Education and Science Union , International Institute for Strategic Studies , Board of Trustees of the Science and Politics Foundation , Chairman of the German-Russian Forum | |
| Christian Lindner | FDP party chairman | |
| Claus Kleber | Moderator and head of the ZDF news desk, member of the board of trustees of the Atlantik-Brücke Foundation | |
| Tasso Enzweiler | from 2002 to 2006 managing director of INSM , from 1992 to 2002 Enzweiler worked as a business journalist for various print media: manager magazin , Capital , Die Welt and most recently as chief reporter for Financial Times Germany and as a guest commentator for Handelsblatt ; April 2006 to mid-2011 Managing Director Communication Consulting Hering Schuppener Consulting , since July 2011 Managing Director Communication Consulting Ketchum Pleon Düsseldorf, Alumni of the Arthur F. Bruns Fellowship, recipient of the European Excellence Award, PR Award and Political Award | |
| Stefan Kornelius | Head of Foreign Policy, Süddeutsche Zeitung , German-Russian Forum , moderates Atlantik-Brücke events | |
| Jan Fleischhauer | Freelance author, book author | |
| Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel | IMF , World Bank , Bertelsmann AG, Step21 | |
| Martin Winterkorn | Volkswagen AG (Chairman of the Board of Management) and Porsche Automobil Holding (Supervisory Board) from 2009 to 2015, formerly Supervisory Board member Infineon , Supervisory Board member FC Bayern München AG | |
| John Christian Kornblum | Former US Ambassador to Germany, Lazard Investment Bank , American Academy , DGAP , Atlantic Initiative | |
| Birgit Breuel | President of the Treuhandanstalt , General Commissioner of Expo 2000 , former member of the board of trustees of Atlantik-Brücke | |
| Max Strauss | Lawyer, eldest son of the former Bavarian Prime Minister and CSU chairman Franz Josef Strauss | |
| Michael Hüther | Economist, director of the German Economic Institute , curator INSM | |
| Michael Werz | Senior Fellow of the Center for American Progress |
Former members (selection)
| Surname | Functions and memberships | Source: |
|---|---|---|
| Carlo Schmid | SPD, father of the Basic Law and Godesberg Program of the SPD, Federal Council Minister 1966 to 1969 , | |
| Kurt Georg Kiesinger | CDU, 3rd Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany | |
| Karl Schiller | SPD, from 1966 to 1972 Federal Minister of Economics and from 1971 to 1972 additionally Federal Minister of Finance | |
| Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker | Nuclear physicist, peace researcher | |
| Max Horkheimer | Social philosopher , head of the Frankfurt School , figurehead of the 1968 movement | |
| Axel Springer | Founder of Axel Springer AG ( Bild, Bild am Sonntag, Die Welt, Ullstein Verlag ) | |
| Friedrich Carl Freiherr von Oppenheim | CEO Sal. Oppenheim | |
| Joachim Zahn | Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler-Benz AG , honorary member of the Presidium of the BDI , member of the Trilateral Commission | |
| Otto Wolff von Amerongen | Otto Wolff Group , today ThyssenKrupp AG | |
| Hans Constantin Boden | since 1929 member of the supervisory board of AEG , Telefunken , Esso AG , Deutsche Werft AG, Mannesmann , Dresdner Bank , from 1956 chairman of the board of AEG | |
| Kurt Hansen | Former NSDAP member, worked for IG Farben from 1936 , from 1961 to 1974 Chairman of the Board of Bayer AG in Leverkusen | |
| Hans-Günther Sohl | Former NSDAP member, from 1935 head of raw materials department at Friedrich Krupp AG , from 1942 military manager , 1953–1973 Chairman of the Executive Board of Thyssen AG , from 1972 to 1976 chairman of the Federal Association of German Industry. V. (BDI) | |
| Kurt Birrenbach | from 1954 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Thyssen AG , Vice President of the European Union , President / Honorary President DGAP , member of the Trilateral Commission | |
| Konrad Henkel | CEO of the Henkel Group , President of the German Chemical Industry Association | |
| Otto Graf Lambsdorff | FDP, HSBC Trinkaus , 1992–2001 European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission , since 2002 Honorary President of the Trilateral Commission | |
| Casimir Johannes Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Berleburg | Founder of the World Wildlife Fund | |
| Karl Heinz Beckurts | Former board member of Atlantik-Brücke, neutron physicist , research director at Siemens AG, victim of a terrorist attack in 1986 | |
| Karlheinz Schreiber | CSU, arms lobbyist sentenced to 6 1 ⁄ 2 years in prison | |
| Dieter Holzer | Lobbyist sentenced to 3 1 ⁄ 2 years in prison | |
| Hilmar Kopper | formerly member of the board of directors of Deutsche Bank , supervisory board of Daimler AG , HSH Nordbank | |
| Hans-Dietrich Winkhaus | Manager, since 2000 President of the Cologne Institute for Economic Research , formerly Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Deutsche Telekom AG, Chairman of Henkel , Member of INSM | |
| Josef Joffe | Publicist and co-editor of Die Zeit | |
| Claudia Roth | Former co-chair of Bündnis90 / Die Grünen, Atlantik-Brücke member from 2005 to 2010 | |
| Philipp Missfelder | Member of the board of the Atlantik-Brücke, CDU, Member of the Bundestag, foreign policy spokesman for the CDU / CSU parliamentary group | |
| Richard von Weizsäcker | Honorary member, Governing Mayor of Berlin (1981–1984), German Federal President (1984–1994), founding member of the American Academy & Aspen Institute Berlin, DGAP , Foundation for Science and Politics | |
| Helmut Schmidt | 1974–1982 Federal Chancellor, 1972–1974 Economics and Finance Minister, 1969–1972 Defense Minister, co-editor of the weekly newspaper Die Zeit , founding member of the Aspen Institute Berlin, founder of the German National Foundation | |
| Guido Westerwelle | FDP, 2009–2013 Federal Foreign Minister , former FDP party chairman | |
| Walther Leisler Kiep | Honorary chairman, former CDU federal treasurer, former supervisory board VW , Atlantic Initiative , 1984–2000 chairman of the board of Atlantik-Brücke eV | |
| Cem Ozdemir | Federal chairman of the Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen party | |
| Katrin Göring-Eckardt | Chairwoman of the Bundestag parliamentary group of Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen, 2005–2013 Vice-President of the German Bundestag , resigned on December 31, 2013 |
Former chair
| Chair from - to | Surname | Functions and memberships |
|---|---|---|
| 1952-1959 | Ernst Friedlaender | 1929–1931 co-director IG Farben / Agfa , USA, 1934–1945 exile in Liechtenstein, 10/1946 - 07/50 deputy editor-in-chief Die Zeit , 1954–1957 President Europa-Union Deutschland |
| 1959-1961 | Arnold Bergstraesser | Founding father of German political science, 1955–1959 director of the DGAP research institute , President of the German Commission for UNESCO , founding father of the foreign policy think tank and policy advice foundation for science and politics |
| 1961-1978 | Gotthard von Falkenhausen | Senior Head of Private and Transaction Bank HSBC Trinkaus & Burkhardt AG, 1960–1970 President / Vice President Chamber of Commerce and Industry , 1960–1967 President of the Association of German Banks (BdB) |
| 1978-1984 | Karl Klasen | from 1933 Deutsche Bank AG, 1946–1950 President of the Landeszentralbank Hamburg, 1952–1969 Board member of Deutsche Bank AG, 1970–1977 President of the Deutsche Bundesbank |
| 1984-2000 | Walther Leisler Kiep | former CDU federal treasurer, former supervisory board VW , Atlantic Initiative , honorary chairman Atlantik-Brücke eV |
| 2000-2005 | Arend Oetker | Dr. Arend Oetker Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Member of the Trilateral Commission , President DGAP , INSM , Presidium of the Federal Association of German Employers' Associations , Vice President BDI , American Jewish Committee |
| 2005-2009 | Thomas Enders | President and CEO EADS , Supervisory Board BP , Council ECFR |
Individual evidence
- ^ Scientific service of the German Bundestag: Eric M. Warburg and the Eric M. Warburg Prize from Dr. Jana Leichsenring ( Memento of the original dated December 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Ron Chernow : The Warburgs. A family odyssey. Published by Btb 1996.
- ^ Eckart Kleßmann MM Warburg & Co. The history of a banking house 1798–1998 Publisher: Warburg (1998)
- ^ Ludger Kühnhardt: Atlantik Brücke: 50 years of German-American partnership. Propylaea, Berlin / Munich 2002, ISBN 3-549-07160-4 , p. 21 (founding members: Warburg, Friedländer, Blumenfeld, von Falkenhausen, Schäfer, von Borries, Dönhoff)
- ^ Board of Directors of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Andreas Dombret
- ↑ Alexander Graf Lambsdorff: Member of the Advisory Board of the American Jewish Committee ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Martin U. Müller: Ex- "Bild" boss: Kai Diekmann becomes a consultant for Uber. In: Spiegel Online . April 14, 2017. Retrieved May 24, 2017 .
- ↑ Eveline Y. Metzen, managing director of Atlantikbrücke in an interview with TV Berlin, from 6:35 min from May 4, 2011 ( memento from March 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ German-American Young Leaders Conference 2010: Philipp Rösler ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ a b Atlantikbrücke-New Zoff in a fine club? Manager Magazine, January 21, 2011
- ↑ http://www.taz.de/!5546887/ from 10./11. Nov 2018.
- ↑ Patrick Döring: CV ( Memento from January 25, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Lower Saxony State Chancellery, web diary December 2, 2009
- ↑ Blume at the request of Ilse Aigner's new member of the Atlantik-Brücke , Münchner Wochenanzeiger from August 14, 2013
- ↑ Friedbert Pflüger-Portrait in "The European"
- ↑ German Bundestag - Dr. Joachim Pfeiffer ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ German Bundestag - Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Paqué ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Karsten Voigt portrait of the Körber Foundation ( memento of the original from January 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Short biography at the Bundestag
- ↑ Homepage Christian Lindner, Memberships: Atlantik-Brücke ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Committees of the Atlantik-Brücke Foundation. (No longer available online.) Atlantik-Brücke eV, archived from the original on June 24, 2013 ; Retrieved June 17, 2013 . 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.
- ↑ Guest comment from Tasso Enzweiler, member of the Atlantik-Brücke eV
- ^ Journalism from the institution. Retrieved September 29, 2015 .
- ↑ Jan Fleischhauer: Fleischhauer's farewell - now it's over! , spiegel.de from June 13, 2019
- ^ CV Sonja-Lahnstein-Kandel, German Association of Sponsors of the University of Haifa
- ↑ Manager Magazin, January 21, 2011 Atlantikbrücke - New Zoff in a fine club?
- ^ A human dimension for transatlantic relations. Speech by Ambassador John C. Kornblum on November 2nd in Stuttgart at the Transatlantic Forum on November 2nd, 1998
- ↑ John. C. Kornblum at the general meeting of the Atlantik-Brücke (p. 11/78) ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Atlantik-Brücke Board of Trustees: Birgit Breuel ( Memento of the original from July 7, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ↑ Strauss trial: Kiep does not want to know any incriminating details
- ↑ Board members Atlantik-Brücke: Professor Dr. Michael Hüther, Institute of German Economics, Cologne, as of April 11, 2012 ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Biography Michael Werz of the Center for American Progress
- ↑ a b c d Raise the flag . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1961, pp. 28-30 ( Online - Feb. 8, 1961 ).
- ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung, review "Kreis ohne Meister" by Ulrich Raulff ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b c d e f Ludger Kühnhardt: Atlantik Brücke: 50 years of German-American partnership. 2002, p. 73.
- ↑ a b c Ludger Kühnhardt: Atlantik Brücke: 50 years of German-American partnership. 2002, p. 103.
- ^ Ludger Kühnhardt: Atlantik Brücke: 50 years of German-American partnership. 2002, p. 85.
- ^ A b Atlantik Brücke: Mighty Alliance by Eva Buchhorn . Manager-Magazin dated March 21, 2003. Retrieved online April 9, 2012
- ↑ a b c Werner Bloch, Matthias Gebauer, Christoph Schult: Toast to the donor . In: Der Spiegel . No. 6 , 2000, pp. 30-31 ( Online - Feb. 7, 2000 ).
- ↑ Speeches of the US Embassy: Karl Heinz Beckurts ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) 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.
- ^ “Leisler Kiep knows nothing”, AP, Süddeutsche Zeitung of June 18, 2007, online version accessed on April 9, 2012
- ^ "Eight years imprisonment for armaments lobbyist Schreiber", Reuters, Germany, May 5, 2010
- ↑ , judgment of the Augsburg Regional Court , the daily newspaper TAZ on November 9, 2011, accessed online on April 10, 2012
- ↑ Question 5 Atlantik-Brücke: Claudia Roth ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ "Missfields in the board of the Atlantik-Brücke" Der Westen, from June 30, 2013.
- ↑ Honorary member: Richard von Weizsäcker p. 66 (35/45 in PDF mode; 5.0 MB) ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 24 years later, Willy Brandt, Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, Federal President Richard von Weizsäcker and Shepard Stone founded the Aspen Institute Germany ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.8 MB)
- ↑ Die Welt of March 13, 2010: "... the evening was organized by the Atlantik-Brücke, an association founded by Helmut Schmidt, Marion Countess Dönhoff and other Hamburg residents in the 1950s ..."
- ↑ Jutta Ditfurth : War, Atom, Poverty: What they talk, what they do: Die Grünen , Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-86789-125-7 , p. 235
- ↑ Question 5 Atlantikbrücke ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed October 17, 2016.
