Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft

Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft
founded in the year	1962
acronym	SWG
City	Hamburg
Country	Germany
Website	http://www.swg-hamburg.de/
Legal form	charity (e.V.)
founder	Hugo Wellems, Artur Missbach, Karl Friedrich Grau
type of institution	Think Tank
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Last revision	29.05.2017

The association conducts what it refers to as educational activity via events and publications. Many of its activities are related to historical revisionism. The think tank is based at the same address as the Preußischen Allgemeinen Zeitung - formerly Ostpreußenblatt whose editor in chief was Hugo Wellems, the founder of the SWG and also editor of the Deutsche Partei's newspaper Das Deutsche Wort, and formerly press secretary for Goebbels. Many of the leading people in the organisation were or are associated to the military.

Organizational Structure and Funding

People

Executive board

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

• Stephan Ehmke

• Manfred Backerra (2008-)

Wellems' successor was Reinhard Uhle-Wettler, then after 2008 Menno Aden, since 2015 Manfred Backerra is director.

Supporters/Sponsors

People or legal entities that either support the Think Tank with their reputation or with their money.

• Harff, Hartmut
• Haverbeck-Wetzel, Ursula
• Baring, Arnulf
• Blank, Martin
• Boddien, Wilhelm von
• Funke, Gerhard
• Gauland, Alexander
• Groppe, Lothar
• Habsburg, Otto von
• Hohmann, Martin
• Hupka, Herbert
• Kallina, Bernd
• Kleine-Hartlage, Manfred
• Knabe, Hubertus
• Kuby, Gabriele
• Lehnert, Erik
• Linder, Alexandra Maria
• March, Ulrich
• Mechtersheimer, Alfred
• Mende, Erich
• Nitschke, Wolf
• Nolte, Ernst
• Ochsenreiter, Manuel
• Stein, Dieter
• Stolz, Rolf
• Weißmann, Karlheinz
• Winckler, Stefan
• Kubitschek, Götz
• Menzel, Felix
• Kositza, Ellen
• Pahl, Gisa
• Roewer, Helmut

Working mode, goals

The SWG publishes texts on the internet site, has a facebook account and promotes book publications.

Cooperations with Think Tanks

• Institut für Staatspolitik

Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft

While the section above shows Think Tanks the Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft claims to cooperate with, the list below shows Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Staats- und Wirtschaftspolitische Gesellschaft.

• Studienzentrum Weikersheim

Cooperations with Non-Think Tanks

• http://www.mecklenburgia.de/

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.

• national identity
• integration
• patriotism