Constanze Stelzenmüller

Constanze Stelzenmüller   (spook?, deep state operative?, editor)
Born	1962 Bonn
Nationality	United States
Alma mater	University of Bonn, University of Geneva, Harvard Law School, Kennedy School of Government
Member of	American Council on Germany/Young Leaders/1993, Atlantik-Brücke, Brookings Institution, Centre for European Reform, Ditchley/Governors, Ditchley/UK, European Policy Centre, German Marshall Fund
Interests	direct democracy
German editor and deep state operative of uncertain rank

Dr Constanze Stelzenmüller is a German editor with multiple deep state connections. She has worked as a newspaper editor, leader of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States. From 2014, she works for the US Brookings Institution.

Education

From 1979 to 1985, Stelzenmüller studied law at the University of Bonn and University of Geneva. As a McCloy scholarship holder, she received a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1988); subsequently she did research as a visiting scientist at Harvard Law School (1988–89). With a thesis on direct democracy in the US, she got a doctorate at the University of Bonn in 1992.

Career

After a short internship (1992–93) at the newspaper Tagesspiegel, Stelzenmüller moved straight to defense and international security editor at the influential mainstream weekly Die Zeit 1994, where she focused on human rights, refugee dramas and the UN, as well as African conflicts such as Rwanda, Congo and Eritrea/Ethiopia. From 1998 from 1998 onward, she covered a broad spectrum of issues, including NATO, European defense and security policy, military intervention in Kosovo and Afghanistan, the war on terror, Iraq, international war crimes tribunals, German foreign policy, and US-German relations.

To what extent she as editor planted stories from intelligence services and maintained the wanted narrative as a gatekeeper, can only be conjectured.

From April to June 2004, Stelzenmüller was a Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in Washington, DC. In July 2005, she took over the management of the Berlin office of the foundation German Marshall Fund of the United States, which traditionally has very close ties to the CIA (according to Udo Ulfkotte a direct CIA-front). From 2009 to 2014 she was a senior transatlantic fellow at the foundation.

From 2014 onwards, she works for the Brookings Institute.

She is governor of the Ditchley Foundation, a Bilderberg-like group of US and British power brokers.

In 2017, she testified before the US Congress on "Russian interference" in Europe. (headlines like: "The toolbox of head-hacking"..."useful idiots“..."Attribution is elusive: No smoking gun")

Stelzenmüller’s essays and articles, in both German and English, have appeared in a wide range of publications, including Foreign Affairs, Internationale Politik, the Financial Times, the international edition of New York Times and Süddeutsche Zeitung.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/2022	2 June 2022	5 June 2022	US Washington DC Mandarin Oriental Hotel	The 68th Bilderberg Meeting, held in Washington DC, after an unprecedented two year hiatus during which a lot of the Bilderberg regulars were busy managing COVID-19
Brussels Forum/2007			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2009			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2010			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2012			Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund.
Brussels Forum/2014	21 March 2014	24 March 2014	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The theme in 2014 was A World in Transition
Brussels Forum/2015	20 March 2015	22 March 2015	Germany North Rhine-Westphalia Cleve	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA-close German Marshall Fund. The 2015 main theme was (R)evolution.
Munich Security Conference/2009	2009	2009	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2014	31 January 2014	2 February 2014	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 50th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2015	6 February 2015	8 February 2015	Germany Munich Bavaria	"400 high-ranking decision-makers in international politics, including some 20 heads of state and government as well as more than 60 foreign and defence ministers, met in Munich to discuss current crises and conflicts."
Munich Security Conference/2016	12 February 2016	14 February 2016	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 52nd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2017	17 February 2017	19 February 2017	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 53rd Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2018	12 February 2018	14 February 2018	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 54th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2019	15 February 2019	17 February 2019	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 55th Munich Security Conference, which included "A Spreading Plague" aimed at "identifying gaps and making recommendations to improve the global system for responding to deliberate, high consequence biological events."
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects

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