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Karsten Voigt
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Karsten Voigt served as the Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation at the Foreign Office of Germany from 1999-2010 and is also a board member of the Atlantik-Brucke, an association to promote German-American understanding. Voigt had previously served as a member of the German Parliament from 1976-98, member of the Parliamentary Assembly of NATO from 1977-98, and as a chairman of Jusos, the Young Socialists in the Social Democratic Party from 1969-72. Voigt studied history, German, and Scandanavian language and literature at the Universities of Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Frankfurt from 1960-69. Voigt’s publications include “Religion und Politik. Ein Vergleich zwischen der Situation in Deutschland und den USA,” in Religion and Politics in the United States and Germany (2007).
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