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Murphy, Henry Kissinger, Josef Ackermann, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Helmut Kohl, Helmut Schmidt, Rupert Stadler, Torsten Oltmanns, Joachim Gauck, Angela Merkel, Sigmar Gabriel, Michael Hüther, Norbert Röttgen, Andreas Dombret, David Deissner, Angelika Gifford, Reiner Hoffmann, Alexander Lambsdorff, Christian Lange, Eveline Metzen, James von Moltke, Omid Nouripour, Julie Linn Teigland, Anahita Thoms, Friederike von Tiesenhausen, Karsten Uhlmann, Nagila Warburg, Michael Werz, Ute Wolf, Sven Afhüppe, Tamara Anthony, Anna von Bayern,Frank Behrendt, Angela Cullen, Christina Eibl, Tasso Enzweiler, Manuel Hartung, David Ignatius, Adam Lashinsky, Kirsten Rulf, Klaus Scherer,Sylke Tempel, Matthias Naß, Jan Fleischhauer, Claudia Roth, Friedrich März,Katrin Göring-Eckardt,Stefan Liebich,Rudolf Scharping,Hubertus Schmoldt,Guido Westerwelle, Volker Rühe, Jens Neumann, Siegfried Luther,Martin Kohlhaussen,Christoph Bertram, Juergen B. Donges,Norbert Gansel,Jürgen R. Grossmann,Arend Oetker, Beate Lindemann,Max M. Warburg,Christopher Vollmer,Sebastian Blum, David Livingston,Bernd-Georg Spies,Dominik Pförringer,Alexia D’Arco,Alexander Görlach, Brian Moran,Friedrich Bieselt, Ute Elisabeth Weiland,Sabine Bendiek,Eveline Y. Metzen,Anahita Thoms,Fritz Erler,Kurt Birrenbach,Kurt Becker,Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski | + | |members=Christian Wulff, Thomas de Maizière, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Michael Otto, Jürgen Großmann, Thomas Enders,Paul-Bernhard Kallen, Hans-Gert Pöttering, Charles Schumer, Cem Özdemir, Edelgard Bulmahn, Michael Vassiliadis, Wolfgang Ischinger, Richard Burt, Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Craig Kennedy, Kai Diekmann, Katja Gloger, Joshua Bolten, Philip D. 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Although they are based on very similar ideas, Atlantik-brücke is not to be confused with its British counterpart The Atlantic Bridge
Contents
Organization
Atlantik-Brücke ('Atlantic Bridge') is the most powerful US-German influence organization, a network of powerful people to strengthen German ties to the US, especially through NATO. The members have dominated the leadership in every German party since its foundation, and all the chief editors and leading journalist in the German MSM-press are members. [1]
Founded in Hamburg in 1952, it was located in Bonn between 1983 and 1999 and is now located in Berlin. The association organizes invitation-only conferences, seminars and colloquia[2]. Through various programs for "Young Leaders", military officers, leading journalists, central politicians and promising students, Atlantik-Brücke fosters social networks among current and future pro-US German leaders in business and world affairs.[3]
The Atlantic Bridge is cooperating with CIA-close think-tanks like the Aspen Institute, and the membership list has a significant overlap with Bilderberg-participants.
Award named after CIA-director
Showing it close intelligence ties, from 1993 to 2008, the AB named its highest price [4] in honor of CIA-officer Vernon A. Walters, responsible for such regime changes as the 1973 coup in Chile.[5].
From 2015 onward, their highest price is named after former CIA-director George HW Bush.[6]
Young Leaders
The two Atlantik-Brücke Young Leaders conferences receive more than 500 applications per year, from which 120 Young Leaders are chosen with the help of a steering committee of political, business and academic leaders. Sixty young leaders are chosen for the German-American Conference (30 Americans and 30 Germans) and sixty are chosen for the European Conference. As of 2011, the German-American Young Leaders Conference has been running for 33 years.
The Young Leaders Program initiated by Atlantik-Brücke represents the oldest and largest program dedicated to identifying and nurturing relationships among the future custodians of the transatlantic partnership. Since the first Young Leaders Conference was held in 1973, over 1,500 Europeans and Americans have attended one of thirty-two German-American Young Leaders Conferences or ten European Young Leaders Conferences, a 10-day international young leader exchange.
Alumni of these prestigious gatherings remain in contact with each other both informally and through regional discussion groups and biennial alumni conferences that had been held under the auspices of Atlantik-Brücke. On January 1, 2011 Atlantik-Brücke established the independent organization "Atlantik Forum e.V. – the Young Leaders Alumni of Atlantik-Brücke" to more effectively facilitate and manage all these activities.
Prominent Young Leaders alumni
Christian Wulff, Former Federal President of Germany
Thomas de Maizière, Former Federal Minister of Interior
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, Former Federal Minister of Defense
Michael Otto, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Otto Group
Jürgen Großmann, Chairman of the Managing Board of RWE
Thomas Enders, President and CEO of Airbus Industries
Paul-Bernhard Kallen, Chairman of the Board of Hubert Burda Media Holding
Hans-Gert Pöttering, Former President of the European Parliament
Charles Schumer, Senior U.S. Senator from New York
Cem Özdemir, Chairman of Alliance 90/The Greens
Edelgard Bulmahn Member of Parliament; Former Federal Minister of Education and Research
Michael Vassiliadis, Chairman of the Board of IG BCE – Mining, Chemical and Energy Industrial Union
Wolfgang Ischinger, Former German Ambassador to the United States
Richard Burt, Former United States Ambassador to Germany
Silvana Koch-Mehrin, Vice President of the European Parliament
Craig Kennedy, President of the German Marshall Fund of the United States
Kai Diekmann, Editor-in-Chief of BILD Zeitung
Katja Gloger, Editor-at-large, STERN Magazin
Joshua Bolten, Former White House Chief of Staff, President George W. Bush
History
Eric M. Warburg (founder of the firm currently known as Warburg Pincus) was one of the founders of Atlantik-Brücke, together with legendary editor Marion Gräfin Dönhoff, Chancellor of Germany Helmut Schmidt and other leading Hamburg citizens. In those Cold War times, the U.S. was looking for influence on Germany. The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) probably gave the idea for founding the Atlantik-Brücke; Eric M. Warburg was a friend and consultant for John J. McCloy, Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations and President of the World Bank. The Atlantik-Brücke is the German counterpart for the U.S. based American Council on Germany (members include US diplomats Richard Holbrooke and Henry Kissinger).
Extract of member list
Below is a selection from the member list of the Atlantik Brücke:
Philip D. Murphy, former United States Ambassador to Germany
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State of the United States of America
Josef Ackermann, former CEO of Deutsche Bank, Germany
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, former Secretary of Defense of Germany
Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor of Germany
Helmut Schmidt, former Chancellor of Germany
Rupert Stadler, former chairman of Audi AG
Torsten Oltmanns, Global Marketing Director at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants
Joachim Gauck, former President of Germany
Angela Merkel, Chancellor of Germany
Members of the Board
Chairman
Former Federal Minister Sigmar Gabriel, MdB (SPD), Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin Vice-Chairmen
Professor Dr. Michael Hüther, Director and Member of the Presidium, German Economic Institute, Cologne
Former Federal Minister Dr. Norbert Röttgen, MdB (CDU/CSU), Berlin Treasurer
Professor Dr. Andreas Dombret, Former Member, Executive Board of Deutsche Bundesbank, Columbia University, New York Executive Director
Dr. [David Deissner]]
Members of the Board
[1] Angelika Gifford, TUI AG, ProSiebenSat1 Media SE und Rothschild & Co., Munich
Reiner Hoffmann, German Federation of Trade Unions (DGB), Berlin
Ambassador Wolfgang Ischinger, Munich Security Conference (MSC), Munich
Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, MdB (FDP), Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
Parliamentary State Secretary Christian Lange, MdB (SPD), Federal Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection, Berlin
Eveline Metzen, American Chamber of Commerce in Germany e.V., Frankfurt am Main
James von Moltke, Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt am Main
Omid Nouripour, MdB (Bündnis 90/ Die Grünen), Deutscher Bundestag, Berlin
Julie Linn Teigland, Ernst & Young GmbH, Mannheim
Anahita Thoms, Baker & McKenzie, Düsseldorf
Friederike von Tiesenhausen Cave, Bloomberg L.P., London
Karsten Uhlmann, Frankfurter Brauhaus GmbH, Frankfurt (Oder)
Dr. Nagila Warburg, Warburg Archive Foundation, Hamburg
Dr. Michael Werz, Center for American Progress, Washington, DC
Ute Wolf, Evonik Industries AG, Essen
References
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFvQuZBxh-Q
- ↑ http://www.transatlanticperspectives.org/entry.php?rec=133
- ↑ http://spiegelkabinett-blog.blogspot.com/2014/01/das-netzwerk-der-atlantikbrucke.html
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20110212154114/http://www.atlantik-bruecke.org/programme/preisverleihungen/vernon-a-walters-award/
- ↑ https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/csi-publications/csi-studies/studies/vol46no1/article01.html
- ↑ https://www.atlantik-bruecke.org/george-h-w-bush-erhaelt-preis-der-atlantik-bruecke/