German Council on Foreign Relations
Think tankThink tank
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| Abbreviation | DGAP |
| Formation | 1955 |
| Founder | Günther Henle |
| Headquarters | Bonn,Berlin,Germany |
| Type | Think tank |
| Membership | Thomas Enders, Rolf Nikel, Thomas Bagger, Geraldine Schroeder, Daniela Schwarzer, Thorsten Klaßen, Martin Bialecki, Niels Annen, Stefanie Babst, Katarina Barley, Elmar Brok, Henri de Castries, Sawsan Chebli, Bijan Djir-Sarai, Jutta Freifrau von Falkenhausen, Katrin Gaertner, Timothy Garton Ash, Stephan Goetz, Armin Grunwald, Eric Gujer, Jürgen Hardt, Christiane Hoffmann, Matthias Höhn, Wolfgang Ischinger, Christian Jacobs, Karl-Heinz Kamp, Eckart von Klaeden, Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, Joachim Lang, Anja Langenbucher, Kurt Lauk, Antje Leendertse, Klaus Mangold, David McAllister, Claudia Nemat, Hannah Neumann, Günther Oettinger, Christopher Freiherr von Oppenheim, Mikkel Vedby Rasmussen, Thomas Risse, Norbert Röttgen, Herbert J. Scheidt, Frithjof Schmidt, Johann Wadephul, Natasha Wunsch, Joachim Krause, Thomas Risse, Michael Zürn, Folkmar Stoecker, James Bindenagel, Günter Verheugen, Johann Voss, Georg Graf Waldersee, Marcus Wassenberg |
| Militaristic German think tank with deep state connections | |
German Council on Foreign Relations (German: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik; DGAP) is a militaristic think tank of political, economic and academic decision makers. The model for the foundation was in many respects the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and Chatham House in London. The first president of the newly founded DGAP was the CDU politician, diplomat and businessman Günther Henle. DGAP publishes the bimonthly journal Internationale Politik.
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“DGAP is an insupportable lobbying organization, especially insupportable because we co-finance it as taxpayers. Recently, one of these experts appeared in a television news program again, who is given airtime in order to (allegedly) disseminate a well-founded opinion. It was about more money for the military, and the quoted expert was Christian Mölling from the German Council on Foreign Relations. This is a lobbying organization that is funded to a considerable extent by us taxpayers and gives the impression that it represents the public interest and thus also the interest of all of us. Mölling is the head of the Center for Security and Defense at the DGAP. Typical for his publications is a DGAP memo with the title: "Defense Budget 2024: The budget is increasing – and not enough yet". The text speaks of a "gaping gap in defense spending". Propaganda for more armaments by publicly paid so-called experts.”
Albrecht Müller (November 30, 2023) [1]
Rearmament and "unprecedented decisions"
In February 2025, its magazine Internationale Politik (IP) focused on the question "what the world expects from Germany after the election". The contributions stated that the next government must prepare the German population for "Germany becoming the European leading power, diplomatically and militarily". To do this, it is necessary to "anchor the this change in the minds". A professor at the Bundeswehr University in Munich proposed the introduction of a "defense solidarity tax" of one to 1.5 percent of income tax and threatened that if Berlin does not sufficiently upgrade the Bundeswehr, "Germany's influence" in international politics would "permanently decline". Another author warnd that a disintegration of the EU is a "realistic scenario" for the first time since the 1950s. Jan Techau saw the "real task of the upcoming government", in addition to massive rearmament, to get the population to agree that Berlin will "be forced to make some unprecedented decisions" in the near future.
Members
The member list (see above) is collected from its board, advisory board, etc.[2]
Funding
Sponsors include the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Migration; the European Commission, Open Society Foundations, the Mercator Foundation, Friede Springer Foundation, and the Otto Wolff Foundation.[3]