Gustav Stresemann Institute

Focus of training events

European Policy

• The new Europe, future of political and economic development
• Perspectives of European security policy
• The role of Europe in global politics of the 21st century

  Aspects of International Policy and Cooperation

• North-South politics and development policy
• Franco-German relations and deepening of cooperation between German and French young people
• Current economic and socio-political issues such as reform of the welfare state, migration, demographic change, living together in a multicultural society
• Vocational guidance and training

  History

• 1951, the International Youth Secretariat of European Movement was founded. It is the youth of Europe to cooperate in building a democratic and peaceful Europe. National Secretariats are established in all democratic states of Western Europe. Head of the German Secretariat is Berthold Finkelstein.
• In 1959 the German Secretariat was transformed into an independent 'Institute of Education on national and European co-operation'. For the merits and efforts to appreciate peace and European co-operation of the statesman and Nobel Peace Prize winner Gustav Stresemann, the Institute was renamed the Gustav Stresemann Institute. Chairman of the GSI was Berthold Finkelstein, who headed the institution until ''1996.
• 1961 The GSI moved into its own house with conference and accommodation capacities - the house Lerbach - in Bergisch Gladbach. This was expanded in the following years, and known under the name "European Academy Lerbach".
• 1972-1980 The GSI had had its own conference and training center in Bavaria, at Schloss Neuburg near Passau.
• 1978 the GSI built the 'European Academy' in Bad Bevensen.
• The GSI opened in 1987 the new, larger facility in Bonn and was meeting in the educational institution in Bergisch Gladbach.
• In 1996 came the election of a new chairman and new line heads GSI. Chairman was Erik Bettermann, director was Klaus Dieter Leister. In 1999, both were re-elected.
• In 2002, the conference center was built in Bonn. Election of a new chairman and the management of GSI. Chairman and CEO was Leister.