Kurt Lauk

Kurt Lauk    (politician, businessman, deep state operative?)
Born	19 May 1946 Stuttgart, West Germany
Nationality	German
Alma mater	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Stanford Business School, University of Kiel
Member of	Atlantic Initiative, German Council on Foreign Relations, Trilateral Commission
Party	CDU
Bilderberg business executive and politician, neoliberal advisor to Angela Merkel, heavy Munich Security Conference habit  Member of the European Parliament for Baden-Württemberg In office 2004 - 2009  Leader of German office In office 1978 - 1984 Employer Boston Consulting Group

Dr. Kurt Lauk is a German business executive and politician.

Lauk is a member of the Trilateral Commission. He has participated in four Bilderberg meetings throughout his career, in 1991, 1996, 2013 and 2015. He is also a regular attendee of the Munich Security Conference.

Education

After graduating from high school, he studied Protestant theology and history from 1967 to 1969 and lived in the Protestant Monastery of Tübingen. Three years later, he graduated from the University of Munich with a master's degree in these subjects. Supported by the German Academic Exchange Service, he received a scholarship at Stanford University in California, where he worked as a research assistant (Department of Political Science) from 1973 to 1974.

As a result of this "change of subject", he began his doctoral studies at the Institute of Political Sciences at the University of Kiel in 1975 and completed an MBA at the Graduate School of Business Stanford/California at the same time. In 1977 he received his doctorate from Werner Kaltefleiter in Kiel on the topic of the nuclear options of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Career

Already in 1978 he worked as Vice president of the Boston Consulting Group in Munich. From 1984 to 1989 he was Chairman of the Management Board of Zinser, a textile machinery factory, in Ebersbach near Stuttgart. From 1989 to 1992, he was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi in Ingolstadt, where he headed the Finance/Business Administration and Marketing department. From 1992 to 1996, he was a member of the Executive Board of VEBA-AG (now E.ON) in Düsseldorf as Chief Financial Officer. From 1996 to 1999, he was a member of the Board of Management of Daimler Chrysler AG in Stuttgart, where he was specifically responsible for the commercial vehicles division.

Until July 2000, he was a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. In the same year he was elected president of the Economic Council of the CDU.

He was elected to the European Parliament in 2004. In July of the year, the Veritas Software division appointed him to the Board of Directors.

Economic Council

From 2000 until 2015, Lauk was president of the Economic Council of the Christian Democratic Party, a business-based neoliberal advisory group closely affiliated with the party yet not officially part of it. In this capacity, he was also an adviser to German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Bilderberg/1991	6 June 1991	9 June 1991	Germany Baden-Baden Steigenberger Hotel Badischer Hof	The 39th Bilderberg, 114 guests
Bilderberg/1996	30 May 1996	2 June 1996	Canada Toronto	The 44th Bilderberg, held in Canada
Bilderberg/2013	6 June 2013	9 June 2013	Watford UK	The 2013 Bilderberg group meeting.
Bilderberg/2015	11 June 2015	14 June 2015	Austria Telfs-Buchen	The 63rd meeting, 128 Bilderbergers met in Austria
Munich Security Conference/2009	2009	2009	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 45th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2010	5 February 2010	7 February 2010	Germany Munich Bavaria	An anti-war demonstration outside described it as "Nothing more than a media-effectively staged war propaganda event, which this year had the purpose of justifying the NATO troop increase in Afghanistan and glorifying the continuation of the war as a contribution to peace and stability."
Munich Security Conference/2011	4 February 2011	6 February 2011	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 47th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2012	3 February 2012	5 February 2012	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 48th Munich Security Conference
Munich Security Conference/2013	1 February 2013	3 February 2013	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 49th 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/2020	14 February 2020	16 February 2020	Germany Munich Bavaria	The 56th Munich Security Conference, in 2020, "welcomed an unprecedented number of high-ranking international decision-makers."
Munich Security Conference/2022	18 February 2022	20 February 2022	Germany Munich Bavaria	Slightly less than 1/3 of the 664 of the participants have pages here
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
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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