German Council on Foreign Relations

German Council on Foreign Relations   (Think tank)
Formation	1955
Headquarters	Bonn, Berlin, Germany
Sponsored by	European Commission, German Federal Foreign Office, Mercator Foundation, Open Society Foundations
Subpage	•German Council on Foreign Relations/President
Membership	•  Thomas Enders •  Rolf Nikel •  Georg Graf Waldersee •  Jutta Freifrau von Falkenhausen •  Thomas Bagger •  Geraldine Schroeder •  Marcus Wassenberg •  Johann Voss •  Daniela Schwarzer •  Thorsten Klaßen •  Martin Bialecki •  Niels Annen •  Stefanie Babst •  Katarina Barley •  Elmar Brok •  Henri de Castries •  Sawsan Chebli •  Bijan Djir-Sarai •  Katrin Gaertner •  Timothy Garton Ash •  Stephan Goetz •  Armin Grunwald •  Eric Gujer •  Jürgen Hardt •  Christiane Hoffmann •  Matthias Höhn •  Wolfgang Ischinger •  Christian Jacobs •  Eckart von Klaeden •  Alexander Graf Lambsdorff •  Joachim Lang •  Anja Langenbucher •  Kurt Lauk •  Antje Leendertse •  Klaus Mangold •  David McAllister •  Claudia Nemat •  Hannah Neumann •  Günther Oettinger •  Christopher Freiherr von Oppenheim •  Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen •  Thomas Risse •  Norbert Röttgen •  Herbert J. Scheidt •  Frithjof Schmidt •  Johann Wadephul •  Natasha Wunsch •  Joachim Krause •  Thomas Risse •  Michael Zürn •  Folkmar Stoecker •  James Bindenagel
Think tank with deep state connections

German Council on Foreign Relations (German: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik; DGAP) is a network of political, economic and academic decision makers.

The model for the foundation was in many respects the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the Chatham House in London. The first president of the newly founded DGAP was the CDU politician, diplomat and businessman Günther Henle.

“DGAP is an insupportable lobbying organization, especially insupportable because we co-finance it as taxpayers. Recently, one of these experts appeared in a television news program again, who are presented in order to (allegedly) disseminate a well-founded opinion. It was about more money for the military, and the quoted expert was Christian Mölling from the German Council on Foreign Relations. This is a lobbying organization that is funded to a considerable extent by us taxpayers and gives the impression that it represents the public interest and thus also the interest of all of us. Mölling is the head of the Center for Security and Defense at the DGAP. Typical for his publications is a DGAP memo with the title: "Defense Budget 2024: The budget is increasing – and not enough yet". The text speaks of a "gaping gap in defense spending". Propaganda for more armaments by publicly paid so-called experts.”
Albrecht Müller (November 30, 2023) 

Members

The member list (see above) is collected from its board, advisory board, etc.

Funding

Sponsors include the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Migration; the European Commission, Open Society Foundations, the Mercator Foundation, Friede Springer Foundation, and the Otto Wolff Foundation.

 

Employee on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End
Joachim Krause	Deputy Director	1993	2001

 

Known members

13 of the 51 of the members already have pages here:

Member	Description
Timothy Garton Ash	UK historian, Ditchley Governor with other connections. Presented a paper to the 1989 Bilderberg. Subsequently attended two more, over a span of 30 years.
James Bindenagel	US Chargé d'affaires to Germany from 1996 to 1997,
Elmar Brok	lobbyist and European parliament politician, MSC regular
Henri de Castries	"French President of Bilderberg"
Tom Enders	Atlantik-Brücke, American Council on Germany/Young Leaders, Bilderberg/Steering committee, Munich Security Conference/Advisory Council ...
Christiane Hoffmann	Berlin correspondent for Der Spiegel who then became government spokesperson.
Wolfgang Ischinger	Spooky German diplomat. Chaired the Munich Security Conference
Eckart von Klaeden	Triple Bilderberg German politician
Joachim Krause
Kurt Lauk	Bilderberg businessman and politician, advisor to Angela Merkel, heavy Munich Security Conference habit
Günther Oettinger	Attended the 2018 Bilderberg as European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources, while at the same time host for yearly lobbyist conference.
Norbert Röttgen	Bilderberg German politician who blamed people who declined vaccines for a divided society
Folkmar Stoecker	Assistant to Walter Scheel who attended the 1981 and 1982 Bilderbergs

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
European Commission	The executive body of the European Union, responsible for proposing legislation, implementing decisions, upholding the EU treaties and managing day-to-day business.
German Federal Foreign Office	The German Foreign Ministry
Mercator Foundation	German foundation financing projects of deep state interest and buying control over the narrative, especially on "climate change" and pro-migration. Frequently connected to censorship initiatives.
Open Society Foundations	A NGO operating in more countries than McDonald's. It has the tendency to support politicians (at times through astroturfing) and activists that get branded as "extreme left" as its founder is billionaire and bane of the pound George Soros. This polarizing perspective causes the abnormal influence of the OSF to go somewhat unanswered.

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References

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