Studienzentrum Weikersheim

Studienzentrum Weikersheim
founded in the year	1979
acronym	SZW
City	Vienna
Country	Austria
Website	http://studienzentrum-weikersheim.de/
address	Illekgasse 6/12/4, 1150 Vienna
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Last revision	4.11.2016

The SZW was founded on Schloss Weikersheim and sees itself as a 'Christian-conservative think tank'. It organises conferences and seminars in particular on the topics of European and German politics.

Organizational Structure and Funding

Over the decades, funding came from federal and Land coffers, from private individuals and from large corporations. The charitable foundation Stiftung zur Förderung christlichen, vaterländischen und humanistischen Gedankengutes in Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Kunst und Politik, is one of the main sponsors. The foundation was established to honour Hans Filbinger, a conservative CDU politician, Nazi-party member and military judge between 1943 and 1945.

Address

Illekgasse 6/12/4, 1150 Vienna

People

Executive board

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

Klaus Hornung (2001-2003)

Jost Bauch (2011-2016)

Harald Seubert (2011-2016)

Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider (2011-2016)

Supervisory board

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

Günter Rohrmoser

Daniel Tapp, administrative contact; Prof. Dr. Karl Albrecht Schachtschneider - member of board; Prof. Dr. Jost Bauch - member of board; Dr. Michael Wey - treasurer; Dieter Farwick - Beisitzer; Prof. em. Dr. Klaus Hornung - Beisitzer; Daniel Krieger - Beisitzer; Dr. Herwig Praxl - Beisitzer

Working mode, goals

It was founded, as it says on its website, with the goal to lead the intellectual debate with the 'cultural revolution of 1968' in the spirit of a 'liberal, Christianity-oriented conservatism' on the 'foundations of the liberal ('freiheitlich') state and the rule of law'. The SZW emphasises that it is based, unreservedly, on the foundations of a liberal, democratic and social state and the rule of law and that it seems itself as an 'independent voice of a civil movement ('Bürgerbewegung') beyond the obsolete political polarisation of "left" and "right"'.

Cooperations with Think Tanks

Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Studienzentrum Weikersheim

While the section above shows Think Tanks the Studienzentrum Weikersheim claims to cooperate with, the list below shows Think Tanks that claim to cooperate with the Studienzentrum Weikersheim.

Institut für Staatspolitik

Cooperations with Non-Think Tanks

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.

European Integration
German politics
Liberalism
Social Market Economy
Democracy
state
lean state
conservatism
Neoliberalism

References