Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann is a German entrepreneur and geo-strategist based in London. Dr. Hoffmann worked as an advisor in the European Parliament (Office of Prof. Hans-Gert Poettering, former President of the European Parliament), the German Bundestag (State Secretary of Defence Peter Kurt Wuerzbach, MP) and the U.S. Senate (Sam Nunn, Gary Hart) in defense and foreign affairs for many years.<\/p>\n
For 13 years he has worked as a successful entrepreneur and investor in different funds. Co-founder of GCG which invested from 2005-2007 Euro 3.3 bn in companies like Volkswagen, BASF, ThyssenKrupp, Lanxess and Siemens. From 1996-2000 he was founder and CEO of InternetMediaHouse AG and a large investor and member of the Executive Board at Loewe TV company, increasing the value of both companies by 24 times in two years to a peak of \u20ac600m. Before he worked as a journalist in the White House Press Corps, as an editor for ZDF, the largest TV station in Europe, and as managing director of large German media companies.<\/p>\n
Dr. Hoffmann supported NATO\u2019s Two Track Decision from 1979 to 1983 to deploy medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe combined with mutual arms reductions on the Russian side, putting him on the target list of the RAF, the German terrorist organization. In 1978 he founded a popular German appeal (Dattelner Appeal) to dismantle the new Russian SS-20 missiles and to combine it with the non-deployment of NATO Pershing II and Cruise Missiles, which was signed by more than 100 members of the German Bundestag, U.S. Senators like Edward Kennedy, and others, and on December 12, 1979 was successfully integrated into NATO\u2019s Two Track Decision and later into the INF Treaty.<\/p>\n
In 1980 he initiated a CDU\/CSU resolution and Federal Law of the Bundestag for an Annual Report on Arms Control and Disarmament, which since then has been published by the German Government. For ten years Dr. Hoffmann was Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Committee for Foreign, Defence, European and Inner-German Affairs in his home state of Lower Saxony in Germany and active in promoting German reunification and a strong NATO. Elected CDU-Member of the City Council in his home town Goslar (Harz).<\/p>\n
In 1984 Dr. Hoffmann organized the exchange program for young reserve officers from the U.S.A. and Germany with the support of then-State Secretary of Defence Peter Kurt Wuerzbach with more than 1000 reserve officers involved from both sides of the Atlantic. He was a German member of the Executive Committee of the NATO Reserve Officers Association CIOR.<\/p>\n
He supported the Mujaheddin from 1985-1990 against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, visiting them in the mountains in 1985 and writing the Afghanistan Report for the European Parliament.<\/p>\n
In 1989 \u2013 during the visit of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl \u2013 he initiated and helped to finance the first \u201cFarmers Association of Silesia\u201d \u2013 former German homeland of his expelled parents in Poland \u2013 which now has more than 3,000 Polish and German members and its own dairy. In 1992 he was Chairman of the Eesti Committee Report (requested by Estonian President Tunne Kelam) about the Future of the \u201cBaltic Hanseatic Region\u201d (Oblast Kaliningrad; Lithuania; Latvia, and Estonia), which helped to create stable democratic states in the Baltic and the foundation to join the EU and NATO. In 1981 his home town of Goslar\/Harz awarded him its \u201cF\u00f6rderpreis\u201d for journalistic merits (Laudation: General (Ret.) Johannes Steinhoff, former Chairman of NATO\u2019s Military Committee).<\/p>\n
Schitag Ernst & Young, SAP and Manager magazine honored Dr. Hoffmann as \u201cFinalist German Entrepreneur of the Year 1998\u201d for growth and innovation as member of the Board and co-owner of Loewe Opta Holding TV company.<\/p>\n
In October 2000 he was awarded the \u201cFederal Cross of Merit\u201d for \u201cinnovative business ideas\u201d by German President Johannes Rau in Schloss Bellevue (Berlin).<\/p>\n
In 2002 at Friedrichsruh Palace near Hamburg, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck bestowed upon Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann the \u201cBismarck Medal in Silver with Golden Oak Leaves\u201d for his \u201cpatriotic faithfulness and proven Prussian national consciousness\u201d.<\/p>\n
Dr. Hoffmann is the author of two standard books about nuclear weapons (\u201cNuclear War, Nuclear Peace: Technology, Strategy, Disarmament\u201d 1980; \u201cThe Nuclear Partners: Washington \u2013 Bonn and the Modernisation of Tactical Nuclear Weapons\u201d, 1986).<\/p>\n
In 2004 he published a book about his mentor of 25 years \u201cFritz Kraemer On Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist\u201d (with Contributions from Alexander M. Haig Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine Kraemer Bryant; Sven Kraemer, Wilhelm-Karl von Preussen, Edward L. Rowny and Donald Rumsfeld).<\/p>\n
One of his main activities in WSN is The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect Project, promoting universal rules for parents, educators, journalists, religious leaders and politicians on how to promote respect for other religions, races and ethnic minorities, as important soft factors of peacemaking including best practices from all over the world and the roots of respect and tolerance in the life of the Prophet and Islam.<\/p>\n
Dr. Hoffmann is a frequent speaker and had spoken in the White House Situation Room (National Security Advisor Bob McFarlane and his NSC Directors), the U.S. Congress, YPO Europe in Krakow (Poland), MedDays in Tangier (Morocco), Global Women Leader Conference of Zayed University in Dubai (UAE), the Royal College of Defence Studies (RCDS) in London, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown Universities, Trinity College (Dublin), and the Cambridge Union (UK).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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