Karsten Voigt
Karsten Dietrich Voigt (born 11 April 1941 in Elmshorn, Germany) is a German politician (SPD).
From 1976 to 1998 he was a member of the German parliament, representing Frankfurt am Main I - Main-Taunus.
From 1999 to 2010, he served as the "Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation" at the Foreign Office of Germany.[1] He is a board member of the Atlantik-Brücke, an association which promotes German-American understanding.
From 1960–1969 Voigt studied history, German, and Scandinavian languages and literature at the universities in Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Frankfurt. From 1969–1972 he was chairman of the Jusos. In 1976 Voigt was elected to the Bundestag for the first time. In 1983, the SPD caucus made him their foreign policy spokesman; he held this office until leaving the parliament in 1998.
See also
References
- ^ Auswärtiges Amt (2010). "Germany - Biography". Retrieved 2010-02-19.
External links
- Official biography
- Interview with Mr. Voigt about a United Germany from the Dean Peter Krogh Foreign Affairs Digital Archives
- Appearances on C-SPAN
- Karsten Voigt on Charlie Rose
- Karsten Voigt at IMDb
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