Karsten Voigt
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Karsten Dietrich Voigt (1973)
Karsten Dietrich Voigt (born 11 April 1941 in Elmshorn, Germany) is a German politician (SPD).
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Early life and education[]
From 1960–1969 Voigt studied history, German, and Scandinavian languages and literature at the universities in Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Frankfurt.
Political career[]
From 1969 until 1972 Voigt was chairman of the Jusos.
From 1976 to 1998 Voigt was a member of the German parliament, representing Frankfurt am Main I - Main-Taunus. In 1976 he was elected to the Bundestag for the first time. In 1983, the SPD parliamentary group made him their foreign policy spokesman; he held this office until leaving the parliament in 1998.
From 1999 to 2010, Voigt served as the "Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation" at the Foreign Office of Germany, under successive foreign ministers Joschka Fischer and Frank-Walter Steinmeier.[1] He is a board member of the Atlantik-Brücke, an association which promotes German-American understanding.
Other activities[]
- Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board[2]
- Einstein Forum, Member of the Board of Trustees[3]
- Ernst Reuter Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees[4]
- German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), Member of the Steering Committee[5]
- European Leadership Network (ELN), Senior Network Member[6]
See also[]
- Germany - United States relations
References[]
- ^ Auswärtiges Amt (2010). "Germany - Biography". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
- ^ Supervisory Board Checkpoint Charlie Foundation.
- ^ Board of Trustees Einstein Forum.
- ^ Board of Trustees Ernst Reuter Foundation.
- ^ Boards Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP).
- ^ "Senior Network". www.europeanleadershipnetwork.org. Retrieved 2020-09-21.
External links[]
- Official biography
- Interview with Mr. Voigt about a United Germany from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Karsten Voigt on Charlie Rose
- Karsten Voigt at IMDb
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