Volker Stoltz

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Volker Stoltz (born July 19, 1939 in Stuttgart ) is a German economist , entrepreneur and, since January 7, 2003, Honorary Consul General of Swaziland in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

In his youth he was a member of the Boy Scouts . He began studying in Berlin , but switched to the Philipps University of Marburg , where he graduated with a degree in economics and was later awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . In 1969 he founded Kommunikation Volker Stoltz KG, based in Bonn . The initially small public relations agency specialized in customers from the food industry and grew rapidly. In 1973 Stoltz was one of the founding members of the Public Relations Agencies Society and was elected President. He sold his company in 1988 to the then British public relations network Shandwick International . He was then CEO of Continental Europe / Group Affiliate Network and a member of the company's Operational Committee until mid-1998 . As a result, he became a managing partner of the VS / C - Volker Stoltz Consult again independently .

In 1983, Stoltz was also a founding member of the Deutsch-Namibische-Entwicklungsgesellschaft eV, which uses donations to improve living conditions in Namibia and supports long-term development projects. In the 1980s he was also responsible for the press service of the Namibia Information Office. After leading the association as president in the early 1990s , he is still represented on the extended board. Volker Stoltz has been teaching at the University of Erfurt since the early 2000s and is the main German responsible for the Global Communication Project . In this semester-spanning seminar, international student teams from various universities in more than ten countries develop PR campaigns for specific problems. The presentations and awards take place annually at a symposium in one of the cities. The project has recently been supported by The GlobalCom Institute eV, founded as a charity organization in 2008, of which the economist is president.

Stoltz is also politically active. At the age of 22, he organized very extensive financial election campaigns for the FDP . In the second half of the 1960s he worked as a personal advisor to the federal managing director Hans Friderichs . Between the end of November 2002 and December 11, 2009, he was district chairman of the party in the Miesbach district . Stoltz is married and has two children (including a son, born in 1964). He moved to Rottach-Egern in 2001 and lives there and in Berlin today.

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Awards

1986 Award Controversy

A controversial debate ensued about the award of the Cross of Merit in 1986 by Franz Möller "on behalf of the Federal President". The official justification stated that Stoltz would receive the medal “for his services to promoting medium-sized businesses”. However, he himself insisted that he had been awarded the award “also for his contributions to promoting German-Namibian understanding”. This was rejected by the Office of the Federal President , the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia and the Federal Government . Der Spiegel wrote that the order would have been awarded to someone who "with tenacious energy and ample money from the South African apartheid regime subverts the official Bonn policy in southern Africa and organizes political pressure like no other Bonn lobbyist". Stoltz was accused of representing the interests of the South African government in the Namibian War of Independence with his office of the press service of the Namibia Information Office , which in June 1985 an internationally unrecognized interim government had set up in the mandate area of ​​Namibia it administered. This should supposedly be legitimized by public relations in the western states. Stoltz organized trips to Namibia free of charge for journalists and individual members of the Bundestag , who in return issue “courtesy statements” in favor of the transitional government for his Bonn press office. This affected both CDU / CSU and FDP politicians - including Hansheinz Hauser , Josef Ertl , Hans Friderichs and Wolfgang Rumpf . According to Stoltz, a total of 114 Union MPs welcomed the Namibian government installed by South Africa. Stoltz's nomination for the Cross of Merit was carried by, among others, the President of the Federal Constitutional Court Wolfgang Zeidler , for whom Stoltz had organized a place in the official gallery at the official inauguration of the government. Zeidler emphasized, however, that his interest as a private person and scientist was only about the constitution of the future Namibia. Der Spiegel saw the awarding of the order to Stoltz as "a targeted attack by right-wing politicians on Genscher's Namibia policy ".

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SURNAME Stoltz, Volker
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German economist, entrepreneur and Consul General of Swaziland in the Federal Republic of Germany
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart