Munich Security Conference
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The Munich Security Conference, formerly Munich Conference on Security Policy, is an annual conference on international security policy that has been held in Munich, Germany, since 1963. It is the wor
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Founder Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin
Chairman since 2008 Wolfgang Ischinger
The image represents George Soros, the chairman of Soros Fund Management, speaking at the 48th Munich Security Conference in 2012, highlighting his involvement in global security discussions and his views on international finance and politics.
Ewald-Heinrich Hermann Konrad Oskar Ulrich Wolf Alfred von Kleist-Schmenzin was a German publisher and convenor of the Munich Conference on Security Policy until 1998. A member of the von Kleist famil
Munich Security Conference
…in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. The conference evolved from the Internationale Wehrkundebegegnung/Münchner Wehrkundetagung, which was founded in 1963 by Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin. The resistance fighter from the Stauffenberg circle hoped to prevent military conflicts such as the Second World War in the future and brought together…
Von Kleist (left) with German Federal Minister of Defence Franz Josef Jung in 2009