Walther Rathenau Institute

The Walther Rathenau Institute, Foundation for International Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit foundation based in Berlin. The Institute is named after Walther Rathenau, the German-Jewish Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic.

The Institute is intended to commemorate the life and work of Walther Rathenau, who was born in Berlin on September 29, 1867 and later became a successful and famous industrialist, essayist and foreign politician, and to make his work and his advocacy of basic democratic values, international understanding and tolerance known to a wider public again. To this end, the Foundation promotes political education in the spirit of Walther Rathenau, in particular through contributions and research projects in the field of foreign policy. In addition, foreign policy studies on current issues affecting Germany are to be produced that reflect the liberal spirit of Walther Rathenau.

The Walther Rathenau Institute was founded in Berlin at the beginning of 2008 on the initiative of the two entrepreneurs Dr. Michael A. Gotthelf and Hartmuth A. Jung.