Bernd Hüttemann

Bernd Hüttemann, born on December 8, 1970 in Paderborn, is Secretary General of the European Movement Germany.

Growing up in Paderborn, he studied Political Science, History and European Law at the University of Bonn. After graduating he first worked as a PR-Consultant and for the Robert Bosch Stiftung, later becoming a research fellow at the Institute for European Politics. Between 2000 and 2003, he accomplished various programmes for the German Federal Foreign Office aiming to acquaint Slovakia and Croatia with the EU. In this context he served, among other obligations, as a consult for the Slovak Government Office in Bratislava.

His political career began with the Young European Federalists (JEF) where he was head of office in Bonn and Brussels. Later, Bernd Hüttemann was honorary Secretary General of the “Europa Union” Germany (German UEF).^[1]

In 2003, Bernd Hüttemann became Secretary General of the European Movement Germany, which is a network of civil society organisations also being an intermediary organisation for the German Federal Foreign Office.^[2] Hüttemann´s focus lies in the representation of interests at the European level, political communication and the coordination of European politics in Germany.^[3] He supports the idea that the negative reputation of Brussels´ lobbyists is often misleading.^[4]

Furthermore Bernd Hüttemann is board member of the European Movement International and of the Orientation Committee of Foundation EurActiv.^[5]

Hüttemann was elected to be one of the top 160 German future managers aged younger than 40 by the business magazine Capital in 2010.^[6]

Just lately in 2011 he became visiting lecturer at the University of Passau (Chair of European Studies).^[7]

External links

• European Movement Germany
• Private Homepage
• Lecturer at the University of Passau
• Interview with TV Berlin
• Interview with BlogactivTV (in English)

Bibliography

• Stiftung & Sponsoring (Ed.): Fondazioni ex-bancarie: Die Renaissance des italienischen Stiftungswesens. Februar 2000, p. 29-30. 
• with Ingo Linsenmann: Europa im Internet. In: Wolfgang Wessels, Werner Weidenfeld (ed.): Europa von A bis Z. Taschenbuch der Europäischen Integration. 12. Auflage. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2011, ISBN 978-3-8252-3528-4, p. 460-466. 
• with Juraj Alner: Slowakei. In: Wolfgang Wessels, Werner Weidenfeld (ed.): Jahrbuch der Europäischen Integration. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2007 (Vorgängerartikel seit 2002). 
• Europäisches Regieren und deutsche Interessen. In: EU-in-BRIEF. Demokratie, Lobbyismus und Art. 11 EUV, Erste Schlussfolgerungen aus „EBD Exklusiv“, 16. November 2010 in Berlin No. 1, Berlin 2011, ISSN 2191-8252 (http://www.europaeische-bewegung.de/fileadmin/files_ebd/eu-in-brief/EBD_PUB_EU-in-BRIEF_1_2011.pdf). 
• with Thomas Traguth: Europeanisation. In: Tartu Ülikool Euroopa Kolledž (ed.): EL ajalooline kujunemine ja euroopastumise teooria. The Impact of Europe. What You See Is What You Do Not Get Tartu 2009 (http://hdl.handle.net/10062/10287). 

References

1. ^ Bernd Hüttemann als Generalsekretär verabschiedet. Europa-Union Deutschland. Retrieved on 2011-03-30.
2. ^ Vgl. zur Aufgabe und Entwicklung der EBD seit 2003 Adriana Lettrari: Brüssel in Berlin (er)leben. In: Zeitschrift für Politikberatung. No. 1, VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2010, ISSN 1865-4789, p. 69-73 (http://www.vsjournals.de/index.php;do=show_article/sid=09d605c07a3a77524f08fc6b4824e81c/site=zpb/area=pol/id=8384). , S. 73.
3. ^ Vgl. Der deutsche Patient im Lazarett Europa: Zur Europa-Koordination und –Kommunikation in Deutschland. EurActiv, 2005-10-06. Retrieved on 2011-03-30.
4. ^ „Hüttemann versuchte (..) den Lobbyismus zu rehabilitieren.“Tomasz Kurianowicz: Kein Rückzug ins Nationale: Eine Diskussion über europäische Bürgerbeteiligungen. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 2011-06-29, S. Natur und Wissenschaft, N 4. Retrieved on 2011-07-25.
5. ^ http://www.euractiv.com/en/Fixed/fondation/fondation.htm
6. ^ Claudio De Luca, Nikos Späth, Capital (ed.): Die Gut-Verdiener. Junge Elite No. 12, 2010, p. 56 (http://www.leuphana.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Forschungseinrichtungen/csm/files/Medienbeitraege/2010-12_Medienbericht_Capital.pdf). 
7. ^ http://www.europaeische-bewegung.de/news/zurueck-auf-die-schulbank/