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  Otto Graf Lambsdorff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Otto Graf Lambsdorff, born December 20, 1926 in Aachen, Germany, is a German politician with the Free Democratic Party.
Since 2004, his nephew Alexander Graf Lambsdorff has represented the FDP in the European Parliament.
Note regarding personal names: Graf is a title, translated as Count, not a first or middle name.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Otto_Graf_Lambsdorff   (158 words)

  
 Ivory Coast   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Graf Lambsdorff was accompanied by members of the Democratic Alliance (DA), including Vincent Gore who is a DA member of parliament and ward councilor in Alexandra, as well as Rainer Erkens, director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for the African Region based in Johannesburg.
Graf Lambsdorff was given a comprehensive insight into the work the DA does in Alexandra, including a self-help project the party started in an effort to counter high unemployment in the township.
During the tour of the township Graf Lambsdorff visited some of the projects that the DA is involved in, including a feeding scheme for the aged.
www.fnst.de /africa_news_archive/News/CountAlexTownship.htm   (129 words)

  
 Lexikon Otto Graf Lambsdorff
Otto Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von der Wenge Graf Lambsdorff (* 20.
Lambsdorff besuchte von 1932 bis 1944 die Schule zunächst in Berlin, später dann die Ritterakademie in Brandenburg an der Havel.
Otto Graf Lambsdorff ist verheiratet und hat drei Kinder.
lexikon.freenet.de /Otto_Graf_Lambsdorff   (377 words)

  
 OTTO GRAF LAMBSDORFF
tto Graf Lambsdorff, Honorary European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission, is a Partner at the law firm Wessing Lawyers in Düsseldorf.
He continued to represent the FDP as its Chief Economic Spokesman up to 1997 and is member of the board of numerous companies and served on UNHCR's Informal Advisory Group of Sadako Ogata between 1994-2000.
Count Lambsdorff was European Chairman of the Trilateral Commission from October 1991 until March 2001.
www.trilateral.org /membship/bios/ogl.htm   (187 words)

  
 Otto Graf Lambsdorff Mehr und nicht weniger Freiheit
Otto Graf Lambsdorff Mehr und nicht weniger Freiheit
Einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit ist Herr Lambsdorff wieder durch seine Tätigkeit als Bundesbeautragter des Bundeskanzlers in den Verhandlungen um die Zwangsarbeiter-Entschädigungen (Stiftungsinitiative deutscher Unternehmen) bekannt geworden.
Herr Lambsdorff ist Aufsichtsratsmitglied in mehreren deutschen und ausländischen Unternehmen.
www.cosmopolis.ch /cosmo31/lambsdorff.htm   (1908 words)

  
 TCS Daily - 'No Experiments'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
This is all the more troubling, as the required steps necessary to overcome the systemic crisis in Germany has been known at least since Otto Graf Lambsdorff's 'Wendepapier' (paper for change) from 1982.
Lambsdorff realized back in 1982 that social and economic problems of Germany could not be overcome through government programs, but only through unleashing personal initiative and the entrepreneurial spirit within the free market.
Those rank and file members of the government coalition and the labor unions, who decry free-market reforms as 'recipes of the past', are merely trying to disguise the fact that they even failed to end the German malaise back then.
www.tcsdaily.com /article.aspx?id=042503N   (1129 words)

  
 TIME.com: Under a Cloud -- Jul 9, 1984 -- Page 1
The clocks in Bonn stood at 15 minutes to midnight when Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff appeared at the office of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week to tender his resignation.
The outspoken Lambsdorff, 57, who had spent nearly seven years in the key Cabinet post, is expected soon to be formally charged by the Bonn public prosecutor's office with accepting $50,000 on behalf of the Free Democratic Party (F.D.P.) from the Flick Holding Co. in exchange for allowing the firm generous tax writeoffs.
Lambsdorff, who will retain his seat in the Bundestag, insisted on his innocence.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,950093,00.html   (538 words)

  
 Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
While discussing reparations with the Western powers, the German side always stuck to the opinion that slave labor restitution was an issue to be regarded as part of reparations--payments based on diplomatic negotiations and made from one state to the other.
Michael Geier, chief of staff to German negotiator Count Otto Graf Lambsdorff, pointed out to me that the Allies had set a precedent for this after World War I. Therefore, claims for individual compensation--say, by a former slave against his employer--were deemed to be out of the question.
Otto Graf Lambsdorff with US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
www.fathom.com /feature/121781/index.html   (3394 words)

  
 BBC News | Europe | Fund blow for Nazi slaves
Some 30 companies, including some of the giants of German industry such as Siemens, Volkswagen and Daimler Chrysler, have admitted using slave labour during the war and they are ready to participate in such a fund.
Otto Graf Lambsdorff urged firms to increase their offer
Talks in Washington on Friday were reported to be making progress, with the German government negotiator, Otto Graf Lambsdorff, saying they would consider increasing their billion-dollar contribution and he urged the German firms to do the same.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/507892.stm   (286 words)

  
 TibetNet - News Flash
On behalf of ICT, His Holiness also presented the award to Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and Ms.
Samdhong Rinpoche gave an address in appreciation of Light of Truth award-winner Count Otto Graf Lambsdorff and the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation.
He said that Count Lambsdorff had supported the Tibetan cause and people for so many years, even when many other supporters had become disheartened and disillusioned.
www.tibet.net /flash/2005/0605/170605.html   (625 words)

  
 Central Europe Review - All the imporatnt news from Germany
Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder has urged German corporations to fulfill their obligations to the recently established national fund for the victims of forced labour in Nazi Germany.
After lengthy debates in March, the Federal government's special plenipotentiary, former Federal Minister of Economics Otto Graf Lambsdorff, struck a deal with Stuart Eizenstat, the speaker for the American victims' lawyers.
The agreement envisaged the establishment of a DEM 10 billion (EUR 5 billion) fund, with DEM 5 billion to be paid by both the government and the corporations, respectively.
www.ce-review.org /00/19/germanynews19.html   (785 words)

  
 Economic Freedom Is Best Policy
The following remarks were made by Otto Graf Lambsdorff to the 2001 annual meeting of the Trilateral Commission in London.
Otto Graf Lambsdorff is Chairman of the Friedrich Neumann Foundation and former Member of the German Bundestag and Federal Economics Minister.
How much better this strategy would be if it served the right cause!
www.trilateral.org /AnnMtgs/trialog/trlgtxts/t55/lam.htm   (1433 words)

  
 International Campaign for Tibet: Tibet News: Dalai Lama presents Light of Truth awards in Berlin
On behalf of ICT, the Dalai Lama also presented the award to Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and Mrs.
Professor Samdhong Rinpoche, the Kalon Tripa of the Tibetan government-in-exile, gave an address in appreciation of Light of Truth award-winner Count Otto Graf Lambsdorff and the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation.
After receiving the award, a clearly moved Irmtraut said that she felt 'unlimited gratitude and greatly blessed'.
www.savetibet.org /news/newsitem.php?id=763   (571 words)

  
 TIME.com: Can Anything Help the Dollar? -- Mar. 13, 1978 -- Page 1
From Washington came the unsettling news that the nation's index of leading indicators slipped 1.9% in January, the biggest dip in three years, while inflation speeded up.
From Europe came a newspaper interview with West German Economics Minister Otto Graf Lambsdorff, who said that he "could not exclude" the possibility of the dollar's sinking to 1.80DMs.
Behind them remains the fundamental problem: the U.S., by spending more abroad than it earns, is spilling out dollars faster than foreigners can absorb them.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,919413,00.html   (680 words)

  
 Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Latvia: Foreign Minister meets with the chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
of July 2002 the Latvian Foreign Minister Mr Indulis Berzins met with Dr Otto Graf Lambsdorff, the chairman of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, and honorary head of the German Free Democratic Party.
They also discussed the upcoming September German Bundestag elections, and how that would affect the enlargement of the EU.
Dr Otto Graf Lambsdorff expressed the opinion that the results of the elections would not change German foreign policy.
www.am.gov.lv /en/?id=2682   (301 words)

  
 CALD News
Enjoying their dinner at the Suan Pakkad Palace are, from left to right, former Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai, Count Otto Graf Lambsdorff who chairs the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, H.E. Pradit Phataraprasit MP, Secretary-General of the Democrat Party of Thailand and Countess Alexandra Lambsdorff.
Giving their congratulatory messages were Lord John Alderdice in behalf of Liberal International and FNF Chair, Count Otto Graf Lambsdorff.
Philippine parliamentarian Neric Acosta served as master of ceremonies.
www.cald.org /news/founders_night.htm   (314 words)

  
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The German government has reservations about paying compensation to persons who were forced to work in the agricultural sector, because their situation was not comparable to that of persons who were forced laborers in concentration camps and ghettos.
·ð The Chancellor and the CEOs discussed the question of the financial endowments of the proposed foundations. The demands being made by plaintiffs´ lawyers and various interest groups are totally unrealistic. This view is shared by Lambsdorff and US Deputy Treasury Secretary Eizenstat.
The German companies in question are willing to provide funds in the near future to appropriately compensate former forced laborers, particularly those who worked in industry.
www.stiftungsinitiative.de /pi0609-e.doc   (597 words)

  
 The American Council on Germany   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Discussion and luncheon, in cooperation with the Friedrich Naumann Foundation, with H.E. Dr. Otto Graf Lambsdorff, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation and former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs, on “Picking Up the Pieces: German Coalition Politics After the 2005 Election”
Discussion and breakfast with Ludwig Stiegler, member of the ESP Executive Committee and Deputy Chairman of the SPD Parliamentary Group, and Joachim Poss, Deputy Chairman of the SPD Group in the Bundestag and Member of the Federal Executive Committee
Discussion and breakfast with Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, member of the European Parliament (FDP)
www.acgusa.org /current_calendar.html   (939 words)

  
 The Asia Foundation
Also in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, the Foundation presented the forum, “Paying Wages 60 Years Overdue —Compensating Victims of World War II Forced Labor; Does Germany’s Example Apply to Japan?” about the plight of an estimated six million Asians forcibly taken to Japan to work in factories and mines.
Speakers included Graf Otto Lambsdorff, former Minister of Economics of the German Federal Republic, and Ambassador James D. Bindenagel, Senior Advisor, Holocaust Affairs, U.S. Department of State, who participated in nearly three years of talks on compensation to more than one million surviving former forced laborers taken to Germany during World War II.
In 2002, the Foundation also held a number of events aimed at promoting U.S.-Japan dialogue on world affairs after September 11, 2001.
www.asiafoundation.com /Locations/japan.html   (928 words)

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