Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik | |
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 Main office of DGAP in Berlin | |
| Abbreviation | DGAP |
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| Formation | 1955 |
| Founder | Hermann Josef Abs Robert Pferdmenges |
| Type | Think tank |
| Legal status | Active |
| Headquarters | Berlin |
| Fields | Foreign policy Security policy Geoeconomics |
| Membership | 2,500+ |
Official language | German |
President | Tom Enders |
Director and CEO | Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff |
| Website | dgap |
TheGerman Council on Foreign Relations (German:Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik,DGAP) is a prominent Germanyforeign policy research institute. It is an independent, private,non-partisan andnon-profit organisation, and actively takes part in policy formation and promoting the understanding of German foreign policy andinternational relations. It was established in 1955 inBonn as aregistered association, and relocated toBerlin in 1999.
The model for the DGAP's foundation in 1955 was in many respects theCouncil on Foreign Relations in New York and theChatham House inLondon.[1] The first president of the newly founded DGAP was theCDU politician, diplomat and entrepreneurGünther Henle.[2]
Prominent former and current members include former German foreign ministerHans-Dietrich Genscher, former German PresidentRichard von Weizsäcker, as well asEberhard Diepgen,Klaus von Dohnanyi,Michael Glos,Friedbert Pflüger,Volker Rühe,Rudolf Scharping,Dieter Schulte,Manfred Stolpe,Rita Süssmuth,Günter Verheugen,Antje Vollmer, andTheodor Waigel.
In 2019,Microsoft announced that it had detectedcyberattacks, which occurred between September and December 2018, targeting employees of the DGAP; they are believed to have originated from a group called Strontium.[3][4]
In the spring of 2025, DGAP was declared anundesirable organization in Russia.[5]
Internationally known as the "German Council on Foreign Relations", the DGAP sees itself as a practicalthink tank offering demand-driven policy advice on a scientific basis. It works to actively influence the foreign policy opinion-forming at all levels. Its work is aimed at decision-makers in German politics, business, public administration, in NGOs, in the military and to the general public. DGAP publishes the bimonthly journalInternationale Politik. Also, it is among other organisers of theEU-Russia Forum [de].
The Council provides:
High-level guest speakers have in recent years includedAngela Merkel (2006),Christine Lagarde (2012),[6]Ali Akbar Salehi (2013),[7]Recep Tayyip Erdoğan (2014),Mohammad Javad Zarif (2015),Paolo Gentiloni (2015),Volodymyr Groysman (2018),Nikos Kotzias (2018) andNirmala Sitharaman (2019).
The DGAP is a member of theEuropean Movement Germany.[citation needed]
DGAP is financed through the contributions of its members, acquired project funds and contributions from sponsors and patrons, including among others, theFederal Foreign Office,Deutsche Bank,Airbus, theRobert Bosch Foundation, and theOpen Society Foundations.[8]
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In Bonn, the DGAP was seated in the villa at Joachimstraße 7 between 1956 and 1959 and then in the Villa Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 6 between 1965 and 1966. In 1965 it acquired the former House of Craftsmen at Adenauerallee 131a in Bonn, including the Villa Adenauerallee 131, which in later years served as a logo of DGAP, for the first time its own building. It served as headquarters of the DGAP from April 1966 to 1999.
Since 1999, the DGAP has used at its seatthe building designed byWerner March, that was erected in 1938 to house the Yugoslav embassy in Berlin, and went through various other uses from 1941 to 1995 when it was sold to DGAP by the Land of Berlin. It is located in the embassy district ofBerlin-Tiergarten.[9]
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