Events & Exhibitions

Panel discussion with Emily Haber, Aydan Özoğuz and Elisabeth Winter

Global trade conflicts, sanctions and the reorganisation of international supply chains are changing work, income and everyday life. In the port city of Hamburg, international developments are having a direct impact on everyday working life. Visit our panel discussion as part of Hamburg Sustainability Week.

A guided tour of our exhibition as part of Sustainability Week Hamburg

Reading of letters on the SPIEGEL affair | FULLY BOOKED

Since 2021, the Bundeskanzler Helmut Schmidt Stiftung has commemorated its namesake with the annual Helmut-Schmidt-Lecture and invites a current "thought leader of today". The Helmut Schmidt Lecture focuses on social and political topics that have already shaped Helmut Schmidt's work and have lost none of their relevance to this day. The series of events brings together international personalities from politics, academia and civil society and creates space for debates on democracy, human rights, globalisation and social cohesion.

The Federal Minister of Defence will deliver the fifth Helmut Schmidt Lecture on 22 June in Berlin

Introducing an inclusive geoeconomics strategy for Germany | Thursday, 18 June 2026, 10 a.m. | Language: English

The Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung and Die Zeit present the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis annually. This award honors an international figure who, through their significant work, stands for democracy and the common good.

Democracy is a challenge - every day. The travelling exhibition #ChallengingDemocracy takes a biographical look at Schmidt as an actor in contemporary history and combines the themes of the late 1960s to 1980s with current challenges. Then as now, the questions are: What protects and what threatens democracy? How social is democracy? How sustainable is democracy?

Every two years, the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation, in cooperation with the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, offers a distinguished Scholar-in-Residence program. The program is aimed at outstanding scholars from Germany and abroad whose research focuses on Europe and international relations. During their stay in Hamburg, the Scholar-in-Residence plans an academic conference on a previously under-explored aspect of historical, political science, legal, economic, or cultural issues.

The exhibition "Schmidt! Living Democracy" provides insights into a century of German and international contemporary history and highlights the - still highly topical - issues of conflict, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s. In the spirit of Schmidt, we also invite our guests to join in the discussion and ask questions about the future of democracy in Germany, Europe and the world.

FOTAR (Future of Transatlantic Relations) is a conference format conceived and organized by the Federal Chancellor Helmut Schmidt Foundation and the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, and generously funded by the Hamburg Ministry of Science, Research, Equality, and Districts. It brings together high-level international experts from academia and politics, as well as representatives of civil society from the U.S. and Europe, to discuss the future of transatlantic relations. FOTAR takes place in Hamburg every two years.