Meet US in Upper Franconia

Up North
march 4/5, 2009
Public Affairs Officer Kathryn Crockart visited Northern Bavaria to conduct media interviews with a regional paper in Bayreuth.  While touring in Upper Franconia, Kathryn Crockart also participated in a joint school outreach program with Bavarian TV Broadcasting editor Dr. Stefan Meining on the Nazi period and the U.S. liberation in Kronach.  Students of the Kaspar-Zeuß-Gymnasium Kronach watched an historical documentary film on the Nazi period in the Upper Franconia region.  In the ensuing discussion about the time-historical context, Public Affairs Officer Kathryn Crockart answered questions from the students about how students in the U.S. learn about this period in history. 

Bavarian-American Basketball in Bamberg
March 7, 2008
The Public Affairs Section of the Munich consulate organized a bi-national basketball summit in Freak City, a nickname for the city of Bamberg.  Consul General Eric Nelson, US Army Garrison Bamberg Commander Lieutenant Colonel Gary Rosenberg and the German basketball champion team Brose Baskets welcomed students from Bamberg Middle/High School and the Graf-Stauffenberg-Realschule to the well-outfitted Freedom Fitness Facility at Warner Barracks for this sports diplomacy event.

On The Path Of The White Gold
February 25/26, 2008

Consul General Eric Nelson toured the Porcelain Road - a network of highways linking world-famous Bavarian porcelain manufacturers in the Upper Palatinate and Upper Franconia.   Stops en-route included porcelain companies Seltmann in Weiden and Rosenthal in Selb.  Both companies have subsidiaries in the USA.  While traveling on the Porcelain Road, Consul General Nelson also met with the mayor of Selb, Wolfgang Kreil, and signed the golden book of Selb.  He also stopped by TRW Engineered Fasteners & Components in Selb, a U.S. company with several subsidiaries in Germany, for talks with the management and a tour of the facilities. 


High School Students Meet Consul General
October 19, 2007
Alexander König (second from left), member of Bavarian Parliament, had invited the Consul General to his home district in Upper Franconia.  In the city of Naila, Consul General Eric Nelson talked to over 150 students and teachers of the local high school about his career as a diplomat and about topics of mutual interest to German-American relations.  Students asked a wide variety of questions ranging from climate change to Iran and Afghanistan.  Consul General Nelson also stopped by the Franconian boom town Herzogenaurach to meet with sports supplier Puma’s CEO Jochen Zeitz as well as the thriving company’s numerous U.S. employees to discuss Puma’s corporate social responsibility concept.

 

 

- Upper Franconia -

U.S. Army installations • U.S. Army Garrison Bamberg U.S.Sister cities  • Coburg - Garden City, N.Y. • Hof-Ogden, UT • Kronach-Greenville, MS • Lichtenfels-Vandalia, OH • Rödental-Eaton, OH • Schesslitz-Victoria, KS   German-American Organizations • Council on Public Policy • German-American Friendship Famous Americans from Upper Franconia • Levi Strauss