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4.5.2023 | Sanna Marin 15.5.2024 | Meredith Whittaker 28.6.2022 | Vanessa Nakate Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis The Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung, the weekly newspaper Die Zeit and The New Institute annually award the Helmut-Schmidt-Zukunftspreis (Helmut Schmidt Future Prize). This award…

Life and work Born in Hamburg in 1918, Helmut Schmidt was an SPD member of the Bundestag, a Senator (minister) in Hamburg, and a party leader and government minister in Bonn between 1953 and 1987. In May 1974, the Bundestag elected him the fifth Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany. After…

Curriculum vitae The Schmidts’ house Life and work Helmut Schmidt in Hamburg Helmut Schmidt Politician, commentator and thought leader Helmut Schmidt was one of the most important 20th-century German statesmen. As a politician, commentator and thought leader, he has had a lasting influence…

4.12.2023 | Remaking Globalisation! 2022 | Hatice Cengiz 2023: Moritz Schularick 2021 | Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya 10.11.2022 | Speaking up! 10.11.2021 | Living Democracy! Helmut Schmidt Lecture Many still consider Helmut Schmidt a global statesman and thought leader who stood up for…

Dr. Strasheim was born in 1986 and studied political science, peace and conflict research and Finno-Ugrian studies at the universities of Hamburg, Växjö and Uppsala; she received her doctorate in political science (summa cum laude) from the University of Heidelberg in 2016. She completed…

Dr. Woyke was born in 1972 and studied history, German and education at the University of Hamburg. He received his PhD in 2004 and undertook postdoctoral studies from 2005-2007 at the Research Centre for Contemporary History (FZH) in Hamburg. From 2007–2012, he was a researcher at the Friedrich…

Dr. Koch was born in 1967 and studied history and English at the University of Göttingen; he received his PhD in 2005. Until 2016, he held contract and employed roles as an historian and exhibition curator, including for Hamburg’s Ministry of Culture and Media, the Foundation Memorial to the…

Winter, Elisabeth. 2023. “Forum: The G7 Hiroshima Summit: Convergence on Economic Security – but will it pass its first stress test?,” 9DASHLINE, May 25. https://www.9dashline.com/article/forum-the-g7-hiroshima-summit. Winter, Elisabeth. 2023. “What to watch at the G7 leaders’ summit – Economic…

8.12.2022 | FOTAR2022: The Changing Politics of Transatlantic Trade Relations 16.-17.11.2018 | FOTAR2018: Challenges in Trade, Security and Environmental Policy Call for Applications | #FOTAR2024 Scholarship Programme 30.1.2020 | FOTAR2020: The Transatlantic Security Partnership in Turbulent…

Scholar-in-Residence In partnership with the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg, the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung offers a dedicated, two-year Scholar-in-Residence programme. The programme is aimed at leading academics from inside and outside Germany whose research focuses on European…

This year, Germany holds the G7 presidency and will host the heads of state and government for an informal gathering in Elmau in June 2022. The Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung (BKHS) takes this as an opportunity to be hosts ourselves, not for current but for the next generation of leaders.…

FOTAR2018: Challenges in Trade, Security and Environmental Policy On 16/17 November 2018, the Bundeskanzler-Helmut-Schmidt-Stiftung and the Europa-Kolleg Hamburg held their first joint conference at the University of Hamburg. The focus of the FOTAR2018 international conference, “The Future…

Author: Vieth, Jacqueline US President Donald J.Trump has shaken up many things, changing long-held habits and customs. NATO was recently certified as being brain dead. The EU is busy with Brexit and the rise of nationalists within its member states. Does that mean it’s a bad time for…

Globalisation is under a strain. Yet, the transatlantic debate about it is very much alive. On December 8th, 2022 for the third time, the FOTAR (Future of Transatlantic Relations) conference format, hosted by the…

Learning Module „German Autumn 1977“ Is history final after its first telling? What are our pupils capable of? Eschewing pre-conceived interpretations and simple relaying of facts, the Bundeskanzler-Helmut Schmidt-Stiftung, in partnership with the “Threatened Order” collaborative research centre…

Dear readers,  "Speaking up!" is the title of our second Helmut Schmidt Lecture, which will take place on 10 November in Berlin. Our speaker: human rights activist Hatice Cengiz. In this special edition of the Schmidtletter, you will read what "Speaking up" means to Hatice Cengiz,…

The Nobel Peace Prize for 2022 was awarded to three laureates who, in the words of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, “demonstrate the significance of civil society for peace”: the Belarusian human rights advocate Ales Bialiatski, the Russian human rights organisation Memorial and the Ukrainian…

First published in Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 25 March 2020. Fabian Urech: Der Fall Khashoggi – eine Chronologie der Ereignisse (The Khashoggi case  – a timeline).  28 September 2018 It is a Friday and Jamal Khashoggi visits the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to obtain a…

Welcome speech by Peer Steinbrück Speech by Hatice Cengiz 10.11.2022 | Speaking up! Jamal Khashoggi | A timeline of events Video portrait of Hatice Cengiz Hatice Cengiz | More information “If you don’t speak, you can’t be heard!”, Helmut…

Hatice Cengiz is a Turkish academic and a researcher in Middle Eastern studies who has published academic articles and a book on Gulf countries. She is the widow of slain Washington Post editorialist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul in 2018. Since that…