List of speakers
Our distinguished position in Leipzig persuades top-class speakers to follow the invitation to Club International. A selection of well-known personalities can be found below:
Club Talk
- Udo van Kampen, former correspondent for ZDF
- Marcel Reif, sports reporter for ZDF, RTL, SKY
- Norbert Blüm, Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs a.D.
- Wolfgang Bosbach, longtime CDU politician and lawyer
- Can Dündar, Turkish journalist, documentary filmmaker and author
- Prof. Dr. Rita Süssmuth, President of the Bundestag a.D.
Lecture
- Prof. e.h. Dr. Klaus-Ewald Holst, Chief Executive Officer VNG Verbundnetz Gas AG a.D.
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Pinkwart, former Rector of the HHL Graduate School of Management
- Eva-Maria Stange, Saxon Minister of State for Science and Art
- Sebastian Gemkow, Saxon Minister of State for Justice
- Heinz Otto Dürr, Chief Executive Officer of Deutsche Bahn AG, Dürr AG
- Rüdiger Freiherr von Fritsch, Ambassador of the FRG in Russia
- Friedrich Merz, former chairman of the CDU / CSU in the Bundestag
- Thomas de Maizière, Federal Minister a.D
- Shi Mingde, Chinese Ambassador to Germany a.D.
- Martin Dulig, Saxon Minister of State for Economics, Labor and Transport
- Christian Lindner MdB, Federal Chairman of the Free Democrats and Chairman of the Group of Free Democrats in the German Bundestag
- Ralf Rangnick, Head of Sports and Development Soccer at Red Bull and former sports director and coach at RB Leipzig
- Gregor Gysi, MdB DIE LINKE.
- Hildegard Müller, President of the Automotive Industry Association
- Karola Wille, Artisistic Director MDR
- Carsten Schneider, MdB SPD, Federal Government Commissioner for Eastern Germany
- Mathias Döpfner, CEO Axel Springer
- Nikola Steinbock, spokesperson for the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Pension Bank
- Dr. Katrin Leonhardt, Chairwoman of the Board of the Saxon Development Bank
- Jürgen Hardt, MdB, Foreign Policy Spokesperson CDU/CSU
- Jean Asselborn, Luxembourg´s former Foreign Minister
- Sahra Wagenknecht, Party Leader of the Bündnis Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW)