Stephan Kramer
Stephan Kramer (b.1968 in Siegen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is the Jewish President of the State Agency for the Protection of the Constitution (State Domestic Intelligence Service) in Thuringia since December 2015. He serves on various advisory committees for projects against so-called Racism and Intolerance, of Civil Society and Remembrance, and is also on the international advisory board of the Holocaust Museum in Macedonia. Although clearly anti-German he is a longstanding member of the German Council on Foreign Affairs and the German Atlantic Council.[1].
He was previously:
- Director, European Office on anti-Semitism of the American Jewish Committee, Trans Atlantic Institute (TAI), Brussels, between July 2014 and July 2015.
- Secretary-General of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland) from April 2004 until January 2014 and head of the office of the European Jewish Congress in Berlin.
- Executive Director of the Zentralrat, March 2000 until 2004.
- Personal assistant to the President of the Zentralrat, (Jewish) Ignatz Bubis (sel.A.)(1999-2000)
- Press spokesman, Consultant for individual & slave labour Compensation Funds and advisor for public and government relations, Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany (Frankfurt/Main Office) (1995-1999).
- During his time with the Claims Conference, he also established and supervised local offices of the Central and Eastern European Holocaust Compensation Fund of the Claims Conference in Kischinev, Moldova; Bucharest, Romania and Budapest, Hungary.[2]
He has called the Alternative fur Deutschland party a "threat to democracy" and wants it classified as "extremist".[3]
