Rudiger Lentz

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Rüdiger Lentz (2007)

Rüdiger Lentz (born September 21, 1947 in Velden ) is a former German officer and journalist . Since 2013 he has been director of the Aspen Institute Germany in Berlin.

Life

After graduating from high school, Letz served as an officer in the German Armed Forces for eight years . He was u. a. Youth officer and press spokesman at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg . From 1971 to 1976 he studied political science , sociology and economics at the University of Hamburg .

He then joined the editorial team of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg, where he became a military correspondent. This was followed by work as a travel correspondent and head of the foreign studios of West German Broadcasting (WDR) as well as a security commentator of daily news of ARD , he for as an author of documentation, such as on the Soviet army entered in appearance. Lentz interviewed a. a. the Libyan dictator Muammar al-Gaddafi and the Archbishop of Cape Town and Primate, Desmond Tutu .

From 1988 he was head of the RIAS-TV studio in Washington, DC. With the personnel changes in 1990, he became editor-in-chief of RIAS-TV in Berlin. After RIAS was taken over by Deutsche Welle in 1992 , he worked as a European correspondent in Brussels. At the end of the year he took over the new television studio there. He then served as a studio manager and senior diplomatic correspondent in Washington, DC for eleven years

From 2009 to 2013 he was Executive Director of the German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA and founding director of the affiliated German-American Heritage Museum in Washington, DC Lentz was visiting lecturer at Harvard University and the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and a regular guest on CNN and C-SPAN . Since September 2013 he has been director of the Aspen Institute Germany think tank in Berlin.

He is a long-term member of the Berlin Atlantik-Brücke and founding member of the German-American Business Council in Washington, DC as well as the former President of the Atlantic Initiative US. He also became a partner of the Berlin public affairs agency Bohnen, Kallmorgen & Partners and is on the Board of Advisors of Munich consulting firm OneBridgehouse.

In 2014 he received the Lucius D. Clay Medal from the Association of German-American Clubs .

Fonts (selection)

  • From cadet to general. The military in the caricature (= The bibliophile paperbacks . 176). Harenberg, Dortmund 1980, ISBN 3-88379-176-8 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CVs of the authors . In: Fritz Peter Hoppe, Gerhard Schurig (Ed.): … It has to be true. Military and journalism in two centuries . Mittler, Herford u. a. 1989, ISBN 3-8132-0309-3 , p. 175.
  2. ^ Herbert Kundler : RIAS Berlin. A radio station in a divided city. Programs and people - texts, images, documents . 2nd edition, Reimer, Berlin 1994, ISBN 3-496-02536-0 , p. 276.
  3. ^ Chronicle of the ARD: Change in the management of RIAS-TV , web.ard.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.
  4. ↑ Chronicle of ARD: New Editor-in-Chief RIAS-TV , web.ard.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.
  5. ^ Chronicle of the ARD: DW-Fernsehstudio in Brussels , web.ard.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.
  6. ↑ Aspen Institute Germany , aspeninstitute.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.
  7. ↑ Römerberg Talks: Speakers  ( 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. , roemerberggespraeche-ffm.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.roemerberggespraeche-ffm.de  
  8. ↑ Lucius D. Clay Medaille , vdac.de, accessed on May 14, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Lentz, Rudiger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Velden