Karsten Voigt

Karsten Voigt Dietrich ( born April 11, 1941 in Elmshorn) is a German politician (SPD). From 1976 to 1998 he was a member of the German Bundestag.

Life

Voigt was born in Elmshorn and studied from 1960-1969 history, German and Scandinavian Studies at the Universities of Hamburg, Copenhagen and Frankfurt. From 1969-1972 he was National Chairman of 1972-73 and deputy national chairman of the Young Socialists, and hence the first Young Socialist president after the so-called left turn. 1976 Voigt was first elected to the Bundestag. The SPD parliamentary group elected him in 1976 as deputy foreign affairs chairman and 1983 to its foreign policy spokesman, an office he held until his retirement from the German Bundestag in 1998 from. From 1977 to 1998 he was a member of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly and from 1989 to 1993 whose Chairman of the Committee on Defense and Security, from 1992 to 1994 as Vice President and from 1994 to 1996 its president. Voigt is a member of the Advisory Board of the Atlantic Initiative .. He is also a member of the Board of the German Society for Foreign Policy, the Board of Trustees of the Aspen Institute in Berlin, the Board of Trustees of the Einstein Forum in Potsdam, the Advisory Board of the Fulbright Alumni Association, and a member of the Commission for International Relations and the Working Group " Turkey " at the SPD executive committee and patron of the Society of the Protestant Elizabeth hospital in Berlin.

From 1999-2010 he was the coordinator of the Federal Government for German -American Cooperation; and was succeeded by Harald body right.

Voigt supported the failed in April 2009, of the CDU, Protestant and Catholic Church, etc. " Pro Reli " campaign that wanted to make the Berlin voluntary religious instruction for elective from the first class.

Awards

1995 Great Cross of Merit

Publications

• Karsten Voigt: The Future of the United States. 15 Questions & Answers on American politics and history. 2012 ( download pdf).