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Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann is a German geo-strategist, investor, internet-pioneer based in Berlin.

His three main focuses as a philanthropist are:

- 'Networking a Safer World', with the largest global elite network in foreign affairs, the independent World Security Network Foundation (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com).

- The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect - promoting understanding and concrete actions for tolerance towards other religions, races and minorities (www.codesoftolerance.com).

- The promotion of a responsible elite which takes over special obligations and duties in societies around the world (www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer).

Dr. Hoffmann worked as an advisor in the European Parliament (Office of Prof. Hans-Gert Poettering, former President of the European Parliament), the German Bundestag (State Secretary of Defense Peter Kurt Wuerzbach, MP) and the U.S. Senate (Sam Nunn, Gary Hart) in defense and foreign affairs for many years.

He was Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS), Georgetown University. Dr. Hoffmann holds a Ph.D. in Political Science with "summa cum laude" (Prof. Karl Dietrich Bracher, University of Bonn, Germany) and is a lawyer as well. He is a reserve officer in the German Army (Field Artillery).

For 13 years he has worked as a successful entrepreneur and investor in different funds. Co-founder of GCG which invested from 2005-2007 Euro 3,3 bn in companies like Volkswagen, BASF, ThyssenKrupp, Lanxess and Siemens. From 1996-2000 he was founder and CEO of InternetMediaHouse AG and a large investor and member of the Executive Board at Loewe TV company, increasing the value of both companies by 24 times in two years to a peak of €600m. Now international investor in different internet companies. Before he worked as a journalist in the White House Press Corps, as an editor for ZDF, the largest TV station in Europe, and as managing director of large German media companies.

Dr. Hoffmann supported NATO's Two Track Decision from 1979 to 1983 to deploy medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe combined with mutual arms reductions on the Russian side, putting him on the target list of the RAF, the German terrorist organization. In 1978 he founded a popular German appeal (Dattelner Appell) to dismantle the new Russian SS-20 missiles and to combine it with the non-deployment of NATO Pershing II and Cruise Missiles, which was signed by more than 100 members of the German Bundestag, U.S. Senators like Edward Kennedy, and others, and on December 12, 1979 was successfully integrated into NATO's Two Track Decision and later into the INF Treaty.

In 1980 he initiated a CDU/CSU resolution and Federal Law of the Bundestag for an Annual Report on Arms Control and Disarmament, which since then has been published by the German Government.

For ten years Dr. Hoffmann was Chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Committee for Foreign, Defense, European and Inner-German Affairs in his home state of Lower Saxony in Germany and active in promoting German re-unification and a strong NATO. Elected CDU-Member of the City Council in his home town Goslar (Harz).

In 1984 Dr. Hoffmann organized the exchange program for young reserve officers from the U.S.A. and Germany with the support of then-State Secretary of Defense Peter Kurt Wuerzbach with more than 1000 reserve officers involved from both sides of the Atlantic. He was a German member of the Executive Committee of the NATO Reserve Officers Association CIOR.

He supported the Mujaheddin from 1985-1990 against the Russian invasion of Afghanistan, visiting them in the mountains in 1985 and writing the Afghanistan Report for the European Parliament.

In 1989 - during the visit of German Chancellor Helmut Kohl - he initiated and helped to finance the first "Farmers Association of Silesia" - former German homeland of his expelled parents in Poland - which now has more than 3,000 Polish and German members and its own dairy.

In 1992 he was Chairman of the Eesti Committee Report (requested by Estonian President Tunne Kelam) about the Future of the "Baltic Hanseatic Region" (Oblast Kaliningrad; Lithuania; Latvia, and Estonia), which helped to create stable democratic states in the Baltic and the fundament to join the EU and NATO.

In 1981 his home town of Goslar/Harz awarded him its "Förderpreis" for journalistic merits (Laudatio: General (Ret.) Johannes Steinhoff, former Chairman of NATOs Military Committee).

Schitag Ernst & Young, SAP and Manager magazine honored Dr. Hoffmann as "Finalist German Entrepreneur of the Year 1998" for growth and innovation as member of the Board and co-owner of Loewe Opta Holding TV company.

In October 2000 he was awarded the "Federal Cross of Merit" for "innovative business ideas" by German President Johannes Rau in Schloss Bellevue (Berlin).

In 2002 at Friedrichsruh Palace near Hamburg, Prince Ferdinand von Bismarck bestowed upon Dr. Hubertus Hoffmann the "Bismarck Medal in Silver with Golden Oak Leaves" for his "patriotic faithfulness and proven Prussian national consciousness".

In 2010 he initiated the first official Progress Report Afghanistan of the German Government supported by the SPD opposition and the CDU/CSU and FDP groups in the Bundestag.

150 poor boys and girls from the tribal areas (FATA) in Pakistan received a WSN FATA Scholarship to visit schools in Karachi (Pakistan) in 2010 with the support of the German Foreign Office. Promoting the development of FATA with two international WSN workshops in London (RCDS) and Berlin (Hotel Adlon).

Dr. Hoffmann is the author of two standard books about nuclear weapons ("Atomkrieg, Atomfrieden: Technik, Strategie, Abrüstung" 1980; "Die Atompartner: Washington - Bonn und die Modernisierung der taktischen Kernwaffen", 1986).

In 2004 he published a book about his mentor of 25 years "Fritz Kraemer On Excellence. Missionary, Mentor and Pentagon Strategist " (with Contributions from Alexander M. Haig Jr., Henry A. Kissinger, Madeleine Kraemer Bryant; Sven Kraemer, Wilhelm-Karl von Preussen, Edward L. Rowny and Donald Rumsfeld) and in 2012 a second biography “True Keeper of the Holy Flame. The Legacy of Pentagon Strategist and Mentor Dr. Fritz Kraemer” (see www.worldsecuritynetwork.com/fritzkraemer).

One of his main activities in WSN is The Human Codes of Tolerance and Respect Project, promoting universal rules for parents, educators, journalists, religious leaders and politicians on how to promote respect for other religions, races and ethnic minorities, as important soft factors of peacemaking including best practices from all over the world and the roots of respect and tolerance in the life of the Prophet and Islam (see www.codesoftolerance.com).

In 2014 he published his book Codes der Toleranz in Herder Verlag with an Arabic (Al Arabi Publishing Cairo) and Polish version. He works on the art and video project The Champions and the Art of Tolerance with portraits including The Dalai Lama, Pope Franciscus , Malala , Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) and Shimon Peres and hidden Champions of Tolerance from all over the world.

Dr. Hoffmann is a frequent speaker and had spoken in the White House Situation Room (Briefing for National Security Advisor Bob McFarlane and his NSC Directors), West Point U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Congress, CSIS in Washington DC, YPO Europe in Krakow (Poland), MedDays in Tanger (Morocco), Global Women Leader Conference of Zayed University in Dubai (UAE), Konrad-Adenauer Foundation in Tallinn (Estonia), EU- Russia- Congress in Sankt Petersburg, Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, the Royal College of Defense Studies (RCDS) in London, the Planning Staff of the German Foreign Office, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown Universities, Trinity College (Dublin), the Cambridge Union (UK), or the Arab-German Association in Doha (Qatar).

Member of YPO (Rhine Chapter)
Scholar Konrad Adenauer and Thyssen Foundation
Young Atlantic Leader 1992 (Atlantik-Brücke)

More can be found in www.worldsecuritynetwork.com and www.codesoftolerance.com and Facebook

Contact: hubertus@worldsecuritynetwork.com

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