Salzburg Global Seminar

The Salzburg Seminar is based in Castle Leopoldskron / Salzburg was from Harvard students ( Clemens Heller, Richard Campbell and Scott Elledge ) launched in 1947 to life. As a kind of " intellectual Marshall Plan " should bring together presentations and discussions and thus promote international understanding and tolerance it after the war aspiring leaders of all nations from the most diverse fields.

Since that time, more than 25,000 Fellows participate in over 150 countries, from economy, science, culture, justice and administration in the seminars. The simultaneously occurring on a professional high level, but in a very personal, informal atmosphere of experiences and exchange of ideas and the resulting contacts and friendships promote by bridging the gap between various ideological, political and religious beliefs international understanding, mutual respect and cooperation. Meanwhile exist in over 60 countries so-called alumni groups whose members are often in senior positions in government offices, ministries, large companies and banks operate, such as the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005, the Egyptian Mohammed el- Baradei.

Speakers from the United States have included Warren Christopher, Saul Bellow, Warren Burger, E. Gerald Corrigan, Max Kampelman; came from Europe Leon Brittan, Garrett FitzGerald, Jean François- Poncet, Alois Mock, Václav Havel, Václav Klaus, Marcel Marceau, Leo Tindemans, Simone Veil, Franz Vranitzky, Peter Gelb, Klaus Liebscher, Gertrude Tumpel- Gugerell, Ljubisa Krgović and other important personalities.

Among the approximately 2000 speakers and Fellows from Germany include Edzard Reuter, Helmut Schmidt, Jutta Limbach, Ernst Welteke, Helmut slider, Peter Schmidhuber, Franz -Christoph Zeitler, Jochen Sanio, August Ever thing, Wolfgang Zeidler, Otto Wolff von Amerongen, The Brothers Frank and Mark Woessner, Günter Ollenschläger Joachim Kaiser, Kurt Biedenkopf, Peter Eigen, Wolfgang Mansfeld and Ralf Dahrendorf.

To preserve the internationality and the exclusivity of each seminar are to participate from a country in a session usually a maximum of two participants. Participation in a session is to take place only on the basis of recommendations of two former seminarians. After that, each seminarian is part of the international, influential network.

An independent subset of the Salzburg Seminar is LAWSS. The Legal Alumni of the Salzburg Seminar Web was launched in 1997. Since then, lawyers meet and legal issues interested once a year for intensive discussion of current developments, inter alia, to banking, economic and monetary law, corruption and money laundering, the EU constitutional law etc.