German Council on Foreign Relations

The German Council on Foreign Relations HistoryThe association was founded in 1955 in Bonn. The model for the foundation was in many respects the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the Chatham House in London. The first president of the newly founded DGAP was the CDU politician, diplomat and entrepreneur Günter Henle.Between 1956-1959 in Bonn the DGAP was seated in the villa at Joachimstraße 7 and then between 1965-1966 in the Villa Schaumburg-Lippe-Straße 6. In 1965 it acquired with the former House of Craftsmen at Adenauerallee 131a in Bonn, including the Villa Adenauerallee 131, which in later years served as a logo of DGAP, for the first time its own building. It served from April 1966 to 1999 as headquarters of the DPAG.The current seat of the DGAP is the building of the Yugoslav embassy in the embassy district in Berlin-Tiergarten.FunctionThe association tries to actively influence the foreign policy opinion-forming at all levels. Its work is aimed at decision-makers in German politics, business, public administration, in NGOs, in the military and to the general public. DGAP publishes bimonthly, the journal Internationale Politik. It is s among other organizers of the EU-Russia Forum. The internationally known as the "German Council on Foreign Relations", the institution sees itself as a practical think tank offering demand-driven policy advice on a scientific basis. It is financed through the contributions of its members, acquired project funds and contributions from sponsors and patrons, including among others, the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt