{"id":13263,"date":"2018-05-05T06:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-05-05T11:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/?p=13263"},"modified":"2019-11-20T11:51:42","modified_gmt":"2019-11-20T17:51:42","slug":"some-information-on-karl-guttenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/some-information-on-karl-guttenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Information On Karl Guttenberg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1BYbZVaqTBU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; No German politician of the post-war era has had such a meteoric rise, and precipitous fall from grace, as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the Bavarian baron who fled Berlin for New York in 2011, his career in tatters over accusations of plagiarism.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Former German Defence Minister and member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg answers reporters&#8217; questions during a joint news conference with European Digital Agenda Commissioner Neelie Kroes, on the launch of Europe&#8217;s &#8220;No Disconnect Strategy&#8221;, in Brussels December 12, 2011. REUTERS\/Thierry Roge<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> At his peak in 2009, when he served as economy and then defense minister, Guttenberg was seen as a potential successor to Chancellor Angela Merkel. A private meeting between the two in the chancellery earlier this month has fed talk of comeback.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guttenberg\u2019s youthful charisma and readiness to speak out on controversial issues, from the war in Afghanistan to the rescue of carmaker Opel, made him the darling of a German media fed up with Merkel\u2019s colorless caution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Germany had never seen a politician like him. A descendant of Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor in the late 18th century, Guttenberg attended AC\/DC concerts at night, had a glamorous wife, and could point to a family of Nazi resisters \u2014 his grandfather is said to have narrowly escaped execution after saying that he\u2019d rather kill SS officers than Jews.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>When Guttenberg stepped down in March 2011 amid evidence he had copied large sections of his doctoral thesis, his exit was greeted with dismay, even by members of the leftist opposition. Merkel accepted his resignation with a \u201cheavy heart\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since leaving Germany two years ago, Guttenberg has lived with his wife Stephanie \u2014 a great-great grand daughter of the first German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck \u2014 and two daughters in the wealthy New York suburb of Greenwich, Connecticut.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>He is a non-resident \u201cdistinguished statesman\u201d at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington and serves as ambassador for a European Commission initiative to promote internet freedom.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But until recently, he had kept a relatively low profile in Germany, returning home \u201crather frequently but very silently\u201d, he told Reuters in a recent telephone interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>That changed earlier this month with the one-hour \u201csecret\u201d meeting with Merkel in the Chancellery, which leaked to the media. What the two discussed remains a mystery, but the encounter was seen by some as a test of the public mood for a Guttenberg comeback.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guttenberg declined to talk about the Merkel meeting and dismissed speculation of a return.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI\u2019m very happy over here,\u201d he told Reuters. \u201cI\u2019m finally diving into topics where a politician always pretends to have knowledge but usually doesn\u2019t have any.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cWAKE UP CALL\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> If he is thinking of returning, Guttenberg is going about it in an interesting way. In a series of Op-Eds over the past year, he has openly criticized Merkel and her government on a range of foreign and security policy issues.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In late 2012 he took Berlin to task in the Financial Times for blocking the merger of Franco-German aerospace and defense group EADS and Britain\u2019s BAE Systems, calling the failed deal a \u201cmissed opportunity of historic proportions\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Last August, in the wake of a chemical weapons attack in Syria, he penned a piece in the New York Times denouncing Germany\u2019s \u201cculture of reluctance\u201d on military engagements.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>His message \u2014 that Germany should assume more responsibility in international affairs \u2014 is not one that Germans are used to hearing from politicians at home, and the article sparked a fierce backlash in the national media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was meant to be a wake up call,\u201d said Guttenberg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>He says his time in the United States has given him new perspective on Germany and its \u201cinward looking\u201d politics.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe big difference I\u2019ve sensed from over here is that expectations (of Germany) are actually much higher than is accepted in Berlin \u2014 on foreign and security policy but also economically.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guttenberg isn\u2019t shy about criticizing German politicians on domestic matters either. In the interview, he faulted his own party, the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), for its populist call, during recent coalition talks with Merkel, for national referendums on major EU decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI wonder whether it\u2019s the right signal,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It was this kind of straight-talk \u2014 in a consensus-driven country that has often seemed to eshew open political debate under Merkel \u2014 that made Guttenberg, at his peak, one of Germany\u2019s most popular politicians.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>BAVARIAN BASE<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Can he rehabilitate himself?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>One problem is that Guttenberg has never really accepted the plagiarism charge, even after the University of Bayreuth, which awarded him a Ph.D. in 2006, ruled he had \u201cextensively violated academic standards and intentionally cheated.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>In Germany, politicians are expected to be above reproach and Guttenberg would have a tough time winning back the support of a German media that feels burned and betrayed by the man they made a star.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>But time has a way of healing old wounds, and Guttenberg is only 41 years old.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A year ago, CSU leader Horst Seehofer, promised to bring him back to Germany after the September 2013 federal election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>The natural place for him to relaunch his career, would be Bavaria, where his family traces its roots back to the 12th century and still lives in a castle it has owned since 1482.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHe can\u2019t return now \u2014 the memory of the mother of all plagiarisms is still too sharp in people\u2019s minds,\u201d said Juergen Falter, a political scientist at Mainz University.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cBut could it happen in a few years from now? Sure, it\u2019s possible. Guttenberg is still very popular, even among some Social Democrats. You have to go back to a young Helmut Schmidt to find a German politician with his charisma.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (Reuters) &#8211; No German politician of the post-war era has had such a meteoric rise, and precipitous fall from grace, as Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the Bavarian baron who fled Berlin for New York in 2011, his career in tatters over accusations of plagiarism. &nbsp; Former German Defence Minister and member of the Center for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1340,93,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lets-get-to-know-karl-guttenberg-watch-this-man","category-u-s-news","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetruthplainansimple.info\/thebiblerevealed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}