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Interview with Mr. Michael Wehinger, Head of the Department West Africa at the KfW Group, Frankfurt am Main
SenGermany: Mr. Wehinger, since when have you been responsible for West Africa at KfW?
Wehinger: I have been responsible for West Africa since early 2015. Previously already, I had numerous points of contact with Africa within the scope of my professional activity in the business segment 'KfW development bank' extending over more than twenty years now.
Interview with Frank Heinrich, Member of the Bundestag
SenGermany: According to your curriculum vitae you come from Freiburg. How did you get from Freiburg to Chemnitz?
Heinrich: Because of my professional career. I studied social pedagogy in Freiburg. Then I decided together with my wife to work full-time as a pastor at the Salvation Army. We completed our training course in Basel and were thereafter sent for our first job to Chemnitz. That is the reason why we ended up in Saxony.
Interview with Thomas Silberhorn, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), Berlin
On 13 January 2016, we spoke with State Secretary Thomas Silberhorn about development cooperation between the Federal Republic of Germany and Senegal, about energy as priority issue, but also about the topics Decentralisation and Food Policy.
2nd part of the interview with the Member of the Bundestag Andreas Lämmel and member of the committee on economic and energy affairs
You speak of a Berlin company with German funding. But there is also the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) with agencies in many African countries and projects in the field of energy. Can attempts be made to also offer such solutions through GIZ? In the end, German subsidies are concerned here .
1st part of the interview with the Member of the Bundestag Andreas Lämmel and member of the committee on economic and energy affairs
Mr. Lämmel, decarbonisation was announced on 8 June 2015. This means that the energy supply must, until 2100, do without coal, natural gas and crude oil. And when this happens, you inevitably open up a big market for renewable energies. What kind of preparation is made in the Bundestag?
Frankfurt, on Friday, 1 May 2015, Labour Day. There is an unusual air of tranquility in the Main metropolis. Bankers and service providers flew home for the weekend. Only few trains have stopped at the Central Station, where normally busy people are in a rush. On such a day the situation is no different at the premises of the blood donor service: Little traffic means very few accidents, and little work in the emergency room. But directly opposite this location, a group of persistent Senegalese met with their Ambassador and discussed about "Cooperation" down to the smallest detail from 10:00 through 18:00 o'clock.