Rüdiger Lentz

Rüdiger Lentz   ( journalist,  officer,  deep state actor,  spook?)
Born	21 September 1947
Nationality	German
Alma mater	University of Hamburg
Member of	Aspen Institute Germany, Atlantic Bridge (Germany)
Spook German journalist and deep state actor.  Washington Correspondent In office 1998 - 2009 Employer Deutsche Welle  Head of the international studio In office 1981 - 1988 Employer ARD  Military Correspondent In office 1976 - 1981 Employer Spiegel  Officer In office 1963 - 1971 Employer Bundeswehr Succeeded by Didier Tauzin

Rüdiger Lentz is a German journalist, former military officer and deep state actor. From 2013 to 2020 he was Director of the Aspen Institute Germany in Berlin.

Education

After graduating from high school, Letz was an officer in the Bundeswehr for eight years. He was, among other things, a youth officer and press spokesman at the University of the Bundeswehr Hamburg. From 1971 to 1976 he studied political science, sociology and economics at the University of Hamburg.

Career

After that, he joined the editorial staff of the news magazine Der Spiegel in Hamburg, where he became a military correspondent. This was followed by activities as a travel correspondent and head of the foreign studio of the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) as well as a security political commentator on the daily topics of the ARD, for which he also appeared as the author of documentaries, for example about the Soviet Army. Lentz interviewed, among others, the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and the Archbishop of Cape Town Desmond Tutu.

From 1988 he was head of the RIAS-TV Studio in Washington, D.C. With the personnel changes in 1990 he became editor-in-chief of RIAS-TV in Berlin. RIAS was a US-German propaganda broadcaster designed to send "information" to East German TV-viewers. After RIAS was taken over by Deutsche Welle in 1992, he worked as a Europe correspondent in Brussels. At the end of the year he took over the new TV studio there. After that, he was a studio manager and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent in Washington, D.C. for eleven years.

From 2009 to 2013 he was Executive Director of the German-American Heritage Foundation of the USA and founding Director of the affiliated German-American Heritage Museum in Washington, D.C. Lentz was a visiting lecturer at Harvard University and at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. as well as a regular guest at CNN and C-SPAN. From September 2013 to 2020 he was director of the Aspen Institute Germany think tank in Berlin. In January 2021, he handed over the management to his successor Stormy-Annika Mildner. In December 2021, he became a senior advisor to the consulting firm Rud Pedersen Public Affairs.

He is a long-standing member of the Atlantic Bridge and founding member of the German-American Business Council in Washington, D.C. as well as former president of the Atlantic Initiative U.S. He also became a partner of the Berlin public affairs agency Bohnen, Kallmorgen & Partners and is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Munich-based consulting firm OneBridgehouse.

In 2014 he received the Lucius D. Clay Medal of the Association of German-American Clubs.

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