Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit

Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit
founded in the year	1958
Country	Germany
Website	www.freiheit.org/
address	Karl-Marx-Straße 2, 14482 Potsdam
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).	Climate Change Skeptics
Last revision	21.01.2014
Presence of Think Tank affiliates in the various fieldsWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows in which fields the affiliates are present. Every presence is counted once.
People n = 3
Presences n = 34
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Kind of activities of Think Tank affiliatesWe try to capture where people affiliated with a Think Tank - affiliates are employees, members of the advisory and supervisory board etc. - are present: if they write in the media, teach in universities or work for another Think Tank. The chart down below shows which kind of activities the affiliates conduct. Every presence is counted once.
<pPie size=330x200 Legend> Author,5 Leader (CEO etc.),9 Consultant,3 Editor,0 Interviewee,9 Member,4 Participant,0 Lecturer,1 Employee,3 </pPie>

The foundation is affiliated to the German Liberal Democratic Party.

Organizational Structure and Funding

Address

Karl-Marx-Straße 2, 14482 Potsdam

People

Executive board

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

• Karl-Heinz Paqué, vice chairperson of the board

• Wolfgang Gerhardt, chairperson of the board

• Manfred Richter, treasurer

• Sabine Leutheusser-Schnarrenberger, board member

• Wolf-Dieter Zumpfort, board member

Staff

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

• Steffen Saebisch, chief executive officer

• Kerstin Brauckhoff, european, foreign and security politics

• Peter Altmiks, economy, labour market, welfare and education

• Annette Siemes, culture, home affairs, legal and integration politics

• Gérard Bökenkamp, basic issues, finance, budget and taxation

• Steffen Hentrich, health, local, environmental, energy politics and comsumer protection

• Detmar Doering, director liberal institute

Supervisory board

People supervising the Think Tank (mainly in economic questions).

• Alexander Graf Lambsdorff, member of the board of trustees

• Ruth Wagner, member of the board of trustees

• Fritz Schaumann, member of the board of trustees, member of the financial committee

• Walter Scheel, honorary chairperson of the board of trustees

• Horst Rehberger, member of the board of trustees

• Detlef Kleinert, member of the board of trustees, member of the financial committee

• Hinrich Enderlein, member of the board of trustees

• Gisela Piltz, member of the board of trustees

• Ludwig Theodor Heuss, vice chairperson of the board of trustees, vice chairperson of the programm committee

• Joachim Werren, member of the board of trustees, member of the program committee

• Renate Schneider, member of the board of trustees, member of the program committee

• Liane Knüppel, vice chairperson of the board of trustees, vice chairperson of the association of current and former scholarship holders of the FNSt

• Walter Rasch, member of the board of trustees, member of the financial committee

• Thomas Straubhaar, member of the board of trustees, member of the program committee

• Karl-Ulrich Kuhlo, member of the board of trustees, member of the program committee

• Gisela Babel, member of the board of trustees

• Helmut Haussmann, member of the board of trustees

• Hermann Rind, member of the board of trustees, member of the financial committee

• Christel Augenstein, member of the board of trustees, vice chairperson of the financial committee

• Peter Jeutter, member of the board of trustees, chairperson of the program committee

• Heinz Lanfermann, member of the board of trustees

• Hermann Otto Solms, member of the board of trustees

• Richard Fudickar, member of the board of trustees, member of the financial committee

• Christian Lindner, member of the board of trustees

• Jürgen Morlok, chairperson of the board of trustees, chairperson of the financial committee

• Anita Maaß, member of the board of trustees, member of the program committee

• Michael Georg Link, member of the board of trustees

Working mode, goals

The foundation has a seperate think tank section called "Liberal Institute", which should not be confused with the Liberal Institute which was founded in Zurich in 1979. The foundation offers scholarships for students. An online advertisement for these scholarships can be found on the website of the Institute for Free Enterprise.

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.

• dismissal of anthropogenic climate change (Climate Change Skeptics): 

References

[[Category:Climate Change Skeptics]]