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Group.png Atlantik-Brücke  
(Deep state milieu)Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png 5
File:Atlantik-Brücke logo.svg
Formation1952
HeadquartersBerlin, Germany
Type•  think tank
•  influence network
InterestsGermany, Creating a network of reliable political cadre
SubpageAtlantik-Brücke/Chairman
Membership• Christian Wulff.jpg Christian Wulff
• Thomas de Maizière.jpg Thomas de Maizière
• KT zu Guttenberg 666 (cropped).JPG Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
•  Michael Otto
•  Jürgen Großmann
• Tom Enders.jpg Thomas Enders
•  Paul-Bernhard Kallen
•  Hans-Gert Pöttering
•  Charles Schumer
• 16-09-02-Cem Özdemir-RalfR-RR2 4940.jpg Cem Özdemir
•  Edelgard Bulmahn
•  Michael Vassiliadis
• MSC 2014 Ischinger2 Mueller MSC2014.jpg Wolfgang Ischinger
• Richard Burt.jpg Richard Burt
• Silvana Koch-Mehrin.jpg Silvana Koch-Mehrin
• Craig kennedy.png Craig Kennedy
• KaiDiekmann.jpg Kai Diekmann
•  Katja Gloger
• Joshua Bolten.jpg Joshua Bolten
• Phil Murphy.jpg Philip D. Murphy
• Henry Kissinger.jpg Henry Kissinger
• Josef Ackermann.jpg Josef Ackermann
• KT zu Guttenberg 666 (cropped).JPG Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg
• KAS-Kohl, Helmut-Bild-14701-1.jpg Helmut Kohl
• Helmut Schmidt.jpg Helmut Schmidt
•  Rupert Stadler
•  Torsten Oltmanns
•  Joachim Gauck
• Angela Merkel2.png Angela Merkel
• Sigmar Gabriel 2018.jpg Sigmar Gabriel
•  Michael Hüther
• Röttgen Portrait Mai2021.jpg Norbert Röttgen
•  Andreas Dombret
•  David Deissner
•  Angelika Gifford
•  Reiner Hoffmann
• Lambsdorff, Alexander Graf.jpg Alexander Lambsdorff
•  Christian Lange
•  Eveline Metzen
•  James von Moltke
• Omid Nouripour.jpg 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.jpg David Ignatius
•  Adam Lashinsky
•  Kirsten Rulf
•  Klaus Scherer
•  Sylke Tempel
• Matthias nass.png Matthias Naß
•  Jan Fleischhauer
•  Claudia Roth
•  Friedrich März
• Katrin Göring-Eckardt.png Katrin Göring-Eckardt
•  Stefan Liebich
A long established and relatively public organ of the US to control German politics.

Although they are based on very similar ideas, Atlantik-brúcke is not to be confused with its British counterpart The Atlantic Bridge

Organization

Atlantik-Brücke ('Atlantic Bridge') is the leading German private association to promote German-American understanding and Atlanticism. 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. 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. The AB is cooperating with CIA-close think-tanks like the Aspen Institute, and the membership list has a significant overlap with Bilderberg-participants.

Vernon Walters Award

From 1993 to 2008, the AB named its highest price [1] in honor of CIA-officer Vernon A. Walters, responsible for such regime changes as the 1973 coup in Chile.[2]. From 2015 onward, their highest price is named after former CIA-director George HW Bush.[3]


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. 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 you can find an extract of 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


 

Related Quotation

PageQuoteAuthorDate
Lars Hinrichs“Without my networks I would be nothing”Lars Hinrichs27 February 2021

 

Known members

102 of the 453 of the members already have pages here:

MemberDescription
Josef AckermannChairman of Deutsche Bank, G30, Bilderberg Steering Committee
Otto Wolff von AmerongenBilderberg Advisory Committee member, deep politician
Peter AmmonGerman diplomat, Atlantik-Brücke, MSC
Ali AslanSpooky journalist, Georgetown University, many deep state ties
Evan BayhUS lawyer, lobbyist, and politician
Kurt BeckerGerman editor-in-chief and government spokesman. Attended Bilderberg/1967 and Bilderberg/1975. Member of Atlantik-Brücke.
Arnold BergstraesserGerman political scientist who headed some deep state groups in the 1950s and 1960s
Christoph BertramGerman journalist with a heavy Bilderberg habit
James BindenagelUS Chargé d'affaires to Germany from 1996 to 1997,
Kurt Birrenbach7 Bilderbergs, West German politician
Birgit BreuelGerman politician, 6 times Bilderberger. Became president of the Treuhandanstalt, the state-organized looting of former East German assets, after the assassination of her predecessor Detlev Rohwedder
Myron BrilliantBridge between the business world and the intelligence-connected organizations. Also lobbyist for free trade agreements.
Elmar Broklobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Zbigniew BrzezinskiA central US Deep politician, Cercle, Bilderberg, ...
Richard BurtUS Deep state operative who took part in the discussion about "terrorism" at the 1986 Bilderberg. Founded Diligence
Kai DiekmannDeep state connected German editor. 2001-2015 chief editor of Bild Zeitung, Europe's biggest newspaper.
Klaus von DohnányiAttended two Bilderbergs in the 1970s. Mayor of Hamburg in the 1980s.
Hans-Lothar DomröseSenior German Army officer. He is believed to have visited Le Cercle in 1983.
Marion DönhoffSpooky German journalist
Mathias DöpfnerCEO of mightiest media group in Germany and Europe, Axel Springer SE, member of the Bilderberg Steering Committee and other transatlantic networks, most notably Atlantik-Brücke. Became billionaire after receiving gift from elderly widow.
Thomas EbelingSingle Bilderberg German businessman - tobacco, Pepsi, Novartis pharmaceuticals, media executive. Member of Atlantik-Brücke.
Tom EndersAtlantik-Brücke, American Council on Germany/Young Leaders, Bilderberg/Steering committee, Munich Security Conference/Advisory Council ...
Fritz ErlerSPD Deputy chair. Attended all Bilderberg meetings from 1955 September to his death in 1967, aged 53
Gotthard von FalkenhausenGerman banker
Klaus-Dieter FrankenbergerTransatlantic German editor
Chrystia Freeland"A bit of a living parody of everything wrong with the detached technocratic neoliberal order"
Michael FromanSerial WEF meeting visitor with many other SDS connections
Ralf FücksGerman politician married to Marieluise Beck of the German cluster of the Integrity Initiative
Sigmar GabrielGerman deep state operative, Atlantik-Brücke Chairman since 2019
Joachim GauckPresident of Germany 2012-2017
Karl-Theodor zu GuttenbergBorn with silver spoon as scion of the zu Guttenberg family, but blew his political career in 2011 after academic plagiarism was discovered. Since then has stayed in spooky think-tanks.
Katrin Göring-EckardtWarmongering German Green politician
Jane HarmanRanking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and caught her coordinating with an Israeli agent.
Lars HinrichsGerman entrepreneur and WEF Young Global Leader 2008. "Without networks I would be nothing".
Christiane HoffmannBerlin correspondent for Der Spiegel who then became government spokesperson.
David IgnatiusAttender of spooky "security" conferences
Wolfgang IschingerSpooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference
Josef JoffePublisher-editor of Die Zeit
Max Warburg Jr.Grandson of Max Warburg Sr., MSC regular, banker
Udo van KampenJournalist, Atlantik-Brücke member, visited the Brussels Forum 2007-2009
Frederick KempeSpook and deep state actor
Craig Kennedypresident of the German Marshall Fund in the period 1996-2014
Walther KiepPolitician, financial fraudster, perjurer, attended 4 Bilderbergs from 1974 to 1980
Kurt Georg KiesingerFive early Bilderbergs, German Chancellor. Possible tool of the BND
Robert KimmittUS deep state functionary, CFR, Bilderberg etc. Facebook's "Lead Independent Director" since March 2020
Henry KissingerUS deep politician, 40+ Bilderbergs, Nobel peace prize, war criminal
Eckart von KlaedenTriple Bilderberg German politician
Karl KlasenDeutsche Bank, Atlantik-Brücke...
Silvana Koch-MehrinWEF/Young Global Leaders 2005. Promising euro-politician from the German FDP until revelations that she had plagiarized large parts of her doctoral thesis.
Helmut KohlAttended 3 Bilderbergs in the 1980s. Chancellor of Germany 1982-1998
... further results


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