Selected Events 2008  

Dresden Discussion of "The Individual and the State" in the U.S.

From left: Director of the Dresden City History Museum (Stadtmuseum) Dr. Werner Barlmeyer; Former state economics minister Martin Gillo; Consul General Mark Scheland; Dr. Joachim Klose of Konrad-Adenauer- Stiftung; Lecture attendees including Ms. Andrea Killick, Saxony Economics Ministry

January 8, 2008. On Tuesday evening, Consul General Mark Scheland addressed an audience of nearly 100, in a lecture/Q&A event sponsored by the Dresden chapter of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation. Launching a three-part series on America’s market liberal/libertarian traditions, the Consul General’s topic was the relationship of the state to the individual. During the Q&A an audience member, Brigadier General Norbert Stier, who commands the Bundeswehr officer college in Dresden, spoke of the community mindedness, generosity, and sense of obligation that characterized Americans he had known during a three-year tenure in the country; he said the volunteerism of thousands of Americans on 9/11/01 illustrated this. Audience questions touched on Guantanamo, access to health care and insurance, the role of the federal states in climate & energy policy, and the presidential election process. The series of events on different role models of the state in Western Europe, post-communistic Eastern Europe, Mexico, USA and Eastern Asia was based on a joint idea of the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation and the Leipzig Pol/Econ section.