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Karsten Dietrich Voigt (born 11 April 1941 in Elmshorn, Germany) is a German politician ( SPD).

Early life and education

From 1960–1969, Voigt studied

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, German, and

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n languages and literature at the universities in Hamburg, Copenhagen, and Frankfurt.

Political career

From 1969 until 1972, Voigt was chairman of the

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. From 1976 to 1998, Voigt was a member of the German parliament, representing Frankfurt am Main I - Main-Taunus. In 1976, he was elected to the

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for the first time. In 1983, the SPD parliamentary group made him their foreign policy spokesman; he held this office until leaving the parliament in 1998. From 1999 to 2010, Voigt served as the "Coordinator of German-North American Cooperation" at the Foreign Office of Germany, under successive foreign ministers

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and

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. He is a board member of the

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, an association which promotes German-American understanding.

Other activities

* Checkpoint Charlie Foundation, Member of the Supervisory Board * Einstein Forum, Member of the Board of Trustees * Ernst Reuter Foundation, Member of the Board of Trustees *

German Council on Foreign Relations The German Council on Foreign Relations (german: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik e. V. (DGAP)) is Germany's national foreign policy network and policy research institute. As an independent, private, non-partisan and non-profit org ...

(DGAP), Member of the Steering Committee *

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(ELN), Senior Network Member

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Early life and education

Political career

Other activities

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