True Keeper of the Holy Flame

True Keeper of the Holy Flame

A fantastic book. Hubertus Hoffmann knows how to describe the genius of a man, who has influenced the thinking and planning of the Pentagon for several decades, probably more than anyone before him. Only history will tell what the consequences of his ominous presence have been.

Norman Mailer
Iconic American author (The Naked and the Dead, 1948)
and Pulitzer Prize Winner in 1969 and 1980

Fritz Kraemer was the greatest single influence of my formative years. An extraordinary man who will be part of my life as long as I draw breath.

Henry A. Kissinger
U.S. National Security Advisor 1969 –1975
U.S. Secretary of State 1973 –1977

What a special person Fritz Kraemer was. His courageous and brilliant career was an example for us all. I had the highest respect for him.

Donald Rumsfeld
U.S. Secretary of Defense1975 –1977 and 2001–2006

For me, Dr. Kraemer’s lifetime of service confirms the importance of the Nation’s elites in pursuing and advancing the value of a free society. I can think of no individual whose patient tutelage made a more meaningful contribution to the shaping of my own worldview.

Alexander M. Haig Jr.
NATO SACEUR 1974 –1979
U.S. Secretary of State 1981–1982

If there is anyone in the Pentagon who has stood for the good and the true, it is Fritz Kraemer. He knows what he stands for and says what he stands for.

Herman Kahn
Futurologist and Founder Hudson Institute

Fritz Kraemer Fritz Kraemer is more up-to-date than ever. This book is a monument to a man for whom values - a moral-ethical system of coordinates and convictions - comprised the hallmark of his life, values that Fritz Kraemer would never surrender under any circumstances. People of his calibre are the exception in all ages, but today among our superficial, value-free, "me" generation they ought to be a protected species. I think it is high time to remember Fritz Kraemer and to take this book to heart.

Klaus Naumann
General, Chief of Staff Bundeswehr 1991–1996
Chairman NATO Military Committee 1996–1999

I like him and I read his stuff- I appreciate to have an intelligent appraisal by someone who really understands great forces at work in the world. It's been very helpful.

Richard Nixon
U.S. President 1969 –1974

Fritz Kraemer was almost invariably right. I was a great beneficiary of that. Hundreds of people who have been touched by him who not only still cherish his memory, but I believe have had their lives affected by his ideas and his example. I believe the spirit of Fritz Kraemer still lives.

Paul D. Wolfowitz
U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense 2001–2005
President World Bank 2005–2007

Fritz Kraemer was the Pentagon's only global strategic thinker and the country's only philosopher who fought "the good fight".

Edward L. Rowny
U.S. Lieutenant General and Ambassador

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  Who was Dr. Fritz Kraemer?

  Author: Tillmann Dietrich

  Dr. Fritz G. A. Kraemer was the most influential German in the Pentagon from 1952 to 1978. Geostrategic Advisor to the U.S. Army Chief of Staff in the U.S. Department of Defense. The true "Dr. Strangelove" – uniquewith monocle and walking stick, a last Prussian at the Potomac River in Washington DC

  A German emigrant to the U.S., born in Essen in 1908, with Christian denomination but Jewish roots. Kraemer, an intellectual with two PhD's, scraped a living as farm worker for five years. In 1944 he was conscripted and thus became a U.S. citizen.....read more

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  Hubertus at "Hubertus Haus"

  Source: World Security Network Foundation

  Back on the historical track of Dr. Fritz Kraemer book author Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann (“True Keeper of the Holy Flame. The Legacy of Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr. Fritz Kramer”) visited the former home village of his long-time mentor: Diethardt, now part of the larger community of Nastaetten in the Taunus forest between St. Goar at the Rhine river and Wiesbaden.

  In the still impressive “Hubertus Haus” Fritz Kraemer lived with his mother and brother as a child from 1914 until the 1930s, before he started his law studies at the University of Frankfurt and later emigrated to the U.S. in 1939....read more

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  Dr Georg Kraemer - Patriot, Prosecutor and Father of the German-American Geostrategist Dr Fritz Kraemer

  Author: Hubertus Hoffmann

  I am deeply impressed with your commitment to remember and honour several former Jewish lawyers from Koblenz. I would like to express my sincere gratitude to the initiator Joachim Henning, judge at the Higher Administrative Court in Koblenz, Germany, for his outstanding and praiseworthy commitment. This is soothing ointment for the open wounds of the Nazi time.

  I would also like to thank Dr Lars Brocker, President of the Constitutional Court and Higher Administrative Court of the Federal State of Rhineland-Palatinate in Germany, Erich Jung, Chief Public Prosecutor, as well as First Prosecutor, Harald Kruse, for this important event entitled "Dr Georg Kraemer (1872 – 1942) and other Jewish Lawyers"....read more

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  Dr Fritz Kraemer's Trail and Spirit in Rome

  Source: World Security Network Foundation

  After 74 years the spirit of legendary Pentagon geostrategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer (see www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer) is back in the city he loved most: Rome. "In Italy my more stiff Prussian spirit was mellowed by the Italian way of living, thinking, emotions. When I came with my young Swedish wife Britta to the city at the Tiber river, we appreciated the friendly simple Italian people, who taught her cooking and supported us.", he told me. Visiting the cinema together with his blond wife, Italian men were whistling after the beauty who looked like Ingrid Bergmann....read more

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  French Admirals on Fritz Kraemer, Strategy and the European Soul in Paris

  Source: World Security Network Foundation

  Each time Pentagon strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer spoke about the strained strategic relations between France and the US in NATO, he ended with the remark to French officers, "If our deterrence and defense strategies against the USSR go wrong, we will all hang next to each other." Times have changed however, and France is not only back in NATO, but also has evolved as an active and reliable partner in the Alliance, taking responsibility for global security, justice and human rights in places such as Libya first and now Mali......read more

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  Former German Defense Minister Guttenberg on Fritz Kraemer Book at CSIS

  Former German Defense Minister Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg is now a Distinguished Statesman at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), one of the most effective and prestigious think-tanks in Washington DC. Together with former U.S. Ambassador and LtGen Edward Rowny he presented the new book of Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, “True Keeper of the Holy Flame. The Legacy of Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr Fritz Kraemer”, about Dr. Hoffmann's mentor for 25 years (book-orders for USD 29.20 and more information in www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer)......read more

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  West Point Enjoys Fritz Kraemer's Ideas & Character, Iron Will & Courage

  Author: PJ Wilcox

  At the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, north of New York City, there are values instilled in cadets that revolve around "Duty, Honor, Country." Dr. Fritz Kraemer, a WWII Army officer and later one of the greatest Pentagon strategists, adopted that motto as his own. Armed with it as his moral code, he mentored Dr. Henry Kissinger and General Alexander Haig, each of whom went on to become U.S. Secretary of State, and he profoundly influenced Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann — founder of World Security Network. Such a moral code remains timeless, and at a recent gathering at West Point, Dr. Hoffmann shared with cadets and members of the faculty how it can influence "fresh and better" foreign and defense policy. Noted Hoffmann, "The current foreign policy is predominantly passive, dominated by talking and not doing. We adapt to negative reality in little slices instead of actively shaping it in a pre-emptive positive way. Thus, we lose influence and do not support the forces of freedom with deeds but just empty words, as in the "Arabellion.".....read more

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  Radio Interview with Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann on Dr. Fritz Kraemer's World and Visions

  Source: World Security Network Foundation

  In his show "From Washington Al Mundo" famous radio host Mauricio Claver-Carone interviewed Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, author of "True Keeper of the Holy Flame. The Legacy of Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr. Fritz Kraemer" (see more in www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer), on Dr. Kraemer's world and visions. An immigrant from Germany in 1939, gentleman with a monocle, officer in the U.S. Army. He fought versus the nihilist Nazis in WW II, influenced many in Washington DC with his geo-political wisdom and know-how, spirit, strong character and iron will as a Lighthouse of honor-duty-country...read more

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  Estonia Appreciates Fritz Kraemer's Iron Will and Inner Independence

  Author: Mairi Maenniste

  The candlelight dinner at the event held by the World Security Network (WSN) in honor of Pentagon strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer at the Telegraaf Hotel in the heart of Tallinn, capital of EU and NATO member state Estonia, was attended by a unique combination of people.

  Among them were Estonia's figure of independence, and member of the European Parliament, Tunne Kelam, who serves on the WSN Advisory Board and his charming wife Mari-Ann, the Ambassador of Russia, Yury N. Merzlyakov, the German Ambassador, Christian Schlager, Ivi Anna Masso, as Advisor to the President, members of Parliament, Imre Sooäär and Margus Tshkna, a successful businessman, Hans Luik, as well as Thomas Schneider, a representative of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and a member of the WSN Advisory Board.....read more

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  Dr. Fritz Kraemer's Moral Legacies discussed on TV Berlin

  Author: Agnes Fischer

  TV Berlin interviewed Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann about his new book on his mentor Dr. Fritz Kraemer "True Keeper of the Holy Flame". Agnes Fischer asked the author about the moral legacies of the German-born Pentagon strategist. Kraemer went to the famous Arndt Gymnasium in Berlin-Dahlem from 1914 to 1925. A lively interview in German. Watch the video of TV Berlin here...read more

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  Berlin Checkpoint Charlie: Moral Legacies from Pentagon-Strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer

  Author: Henning - Hubertus von Steuben

  Germany-born Pentagon- Strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer would have loved this event of the World Security Network Foundation (WSN) in the museum at the famous Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin: More than 100 participants were young people with an appetite for foreign affairs. They were sitting in the first two rows reserved for them as "Young VIPs" while several generals and ambassadors were sitting in the back of the audience of 200. Three well-know strategist, Dr. August Hanning, former President of Germany intelligence service BND and State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Interior, General Harald Kujat, former Chief of Staff Bundeswehr and Chairman of NATO's Military Committee and WSN President and author Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann discussed about "Pentagon-Strategist Dr. Fritz Kraemer and the World 3.0-Which Elements do we need for an effective Foreign-and Security Policy in the globalized World-Disorder?"...read more

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  London Welcomes Fritz Kraemer's Legacy: "Kissinger's Kissinger"

  Author: Richard Nunneley

  When I was invited by the World Security Network to the London launch of a new book on "Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr. Fritz Kraemer", I was interested but had not heard of him before. I asked my American co-trustees of another NGO (Astia.org) about him, given that many are graduates of Georgetown University and involved in U.S. politics. Given their response, this was a "not to miss" event based upon the unique life of a man of honor, duty and values...read more

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  Fritz Kraemer's World 3.0 in Istanbul

  Author: Murat Erdoğan

  The President of the World Security Network Foundation (WSN), Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann, gave two impressive speeches on his new book True Keeper of the Holy Flame. The Legacy of Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr Fritz Kraemer (see www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer) in Istanbul, Turkey and discussed the new elements of a better foreign and defense policy called World 3.0 with scholars and journalists during a dinner hosted by the WSN Foundation...read more

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  Fritz Kraemer's Visions for a World 3.0 - Power & Reconciliation discussed by a NATO General and Archbishop

  Author: Philipp Brix

  Dr Hubertus Hoffmann presented his new book about his mentor for 25 years "True Keeper of the Holy Flame. The Legacy of Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr Fritz Kraemer" (see www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer for details) during a round table discussion in Munich, Germany. The CSU (Christian Social Union) Foreign Affairs Committee had been invited, together with the WSN, to a round table discussion...read more

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  Pentagon Stratege Dr. Fritz Kraemer und die Welt 3.0

  Author: C·A·P

  Hubertus Hoffmann (* 1955 in Göttingen) ist ein deutscher Investor sowie Gründer und Präsident der internationalen World Security Network Foundation und der Initiative Codes of Tolerance. Davor war er als Journalist und Medienmanager tätig. Er arbeitete zudem als politischer Berater im Europäischen Parlament (Büro von Prof. Hand-Gert Pöttering, im Deutschen Bundestag (beim Staatssekretär für Verteidigung, Peter Kurt Würzbach MdB) sowie im U.S. Senat im Bereich der Verteidigungs- und Außenpolitik...read more