Hanns Seidel Stiftung

Hanns Seidel Stiftung
founded in the year	1967
acronym	HSS
City	Munich
Country	Germany
Website	http://www.hss.de
Legal form	Association
address	Lazarettstraße 33 80636 München
number of employees	281
Networks	European Ideas Network (EIN), Latinoamerica Libre, Center for European Studies (CES), European Network of Political Foundations (ENOP)
Virtual Networks A "Virtual Network" is a group of Think Tanks identified by certain semantic and normative (ideological) commonalities (e.g. climate change scepticism). Such a virtual network constitutes a research field that differs from the study of formal networks. Formal networks are real in the sense of officially acknowledged and immediately open to empirical validation. Virtual networks on the other hand display shared ideas. Social network analysis tools can be applied to find out if or to what extent virtual networks are real networks that display linkages (membership in networks, personnel, resources etc.). Unconnected think tanks in turn can be considered special cases in need of explanation independent from network structures (unless we have to assume invisible, hidden or covered ties).	Austerity politics
Last revision	9.06.2015

The HSS is a political and educational foundation close to the bavarian CSU.

Organizational Structure and Funding

The HSS is funded mainly through public support according to german legal norms for foundations of parties represented in the german parliament.

Address

Lazarettstraße 33 80636 München

People

Executive board

People leading the Think Tank in the day to day business (CEOs, directorates etc.).

• Joachim Herrmann

• Peter Witterauf

• Ursula Männle, chairperson

• Wilfried Scharnagl

• Theo Waigel

• Gerda Hasselfeldt

• Angelika Niebler

• Markus Ferber

• Thomas Kreuzer

• Hans Zehetmair

• Ingo treasurer Friedrich

• Horst Seehofer

• Edmund Stoiber

• Alois Glück

• Otto Wiesheu

Staff

People working for the Think Tank (Fellows etc.). This includes also part-time employees.

• Bühler Hanns, Institute of International Development

• Schmid Roswitha

• Mailinger Ludwig

• Liepert Klaus, Institute of International Development

• Hildmann Philipp W.

• Marcus Ehm, Director of the Institute in Moskau

• Stieber Kea-Sophie

• Fürbeth Barbara

• Fiesinger Klaus, Institute of International Development

• Ehm Markus

• Schmidt Maryam, Institute of International Development

• Teltschik Richard, Director of Institut in Washington

• Höfling Siegfried

• Hirscher Gerhard

• Wolf Alexander

• Ehm Dietmar, Institute of International Development

• Franke Silke

• Rotter Andrea

• Witterauf Peter

• Forstner Christian

• Bodensteiner Paula

• Dagmar Weigel

• Schlembach Claudia

• Höpfinger Renate

• Lange Willi, Institute of International Development

• Meier-Walser Reinhard

• Männle Ursula

• Niedermeier Hans-Peter

• Schmid Susanne

• Polixeni Kapellou, Director of the Institute in Athens

• Binder Klaus G., Institute of International Development

• Höller Armin

• Luther Susanne, Institute of International Development

Members

Members are not actively engaged in the institution, but have some rights (participation in certain events...). Sometimes members have to pay extensive yearly fees.

• Christian Seidel

• Carl-Dieter Spranger

• Gerd Müller

• Peter Schmidhuber

• Alexander Dobrindt

• Erwin Huber

• Hildegund Holzheid

• Peter Ramsauer

• Monika Hohlmeier

• Alfred Böswald

• Thomas Silberhorn

• Melanie Huml

• Otto Meitinger

• Markus Blume

• Wulf Steinmann

• Lorenz Wolf

• Markus Sackmann

• Gerold Tandler

• Barbara Stamm

• Wolfgang Piller

• Kerstin Schreyer-Stäblein

• Walter Althammer

• Isabell Welpe

• Günther Beckstein

Detailed funding activities

If possible we also list more detailed funding activities of Think Tanks. This includes funds they emit as well as funds they receive.

Received funds

• http://www.stmf.bayern.de (2012) Funding of 1,468,000 €. public benefits reflection the HSS' status as foundation of a party represented in the bavarian Landtag

• http://www.bmf.de (2012) Funding of 48,869,000 €. public benefits reflecting the HSS' status as foundation of a party represented in the Bundestag

Topics

We used the DGs of the EU to generate a basic list of topics. This list is going to be steadily extended. However we try to preserve a persistent list of topics.

Semantic Fields

What we call here a semantic field is the idea to categorize think tanks in a two level system. The first levels are so called 'Virtual Networks' and the second are the semantic fields. Accordingly every semantic field entered here has to be attached to a virtual network. If you would like to follow a special phenomenon among think tanks please contact us and we are going to add a new virtual network. Semantic fields are topics that promote a virtual network. Lets take climate change as an example: 'climate change skeptics' is the virtual network and 'adaption instead of mitigation' would be one possible semantic field.

• Debt reduction (Austerity Politics): strengthening the SGP by creating instruments to enforce its rules

References

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