Friedrich Opitz

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Friedrich Opitz M.A.

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Friedrich Wolfgang Opitz is a Lecturer in International Politics and Transatlantic Relations. He is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Leipzig. Funded by the German Academic Scholarship Foundation, he is conducting comparative research on structural change in East Germany and the American Midwest, where he was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Wisconsin. Parallel to his doctoral studies, Friedrich Opitz is engaged as an Associate Fellow at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), where he is researching the Zeitenwende in Eastern Germany. He also serves as a Fellow and leads the working group on Climate, Labor, and Innovation within the Industrial Heartland Project, a collaboration between das Progressive Zentrum Berlin, the Progressive Policy Institute, and the BMW Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University. Friedrich Opitz previously worked as a Program Director at the German-American Institute Saxony, among other roles. He completed his studies in Leipzig, Dresden, Strasbourg, and the USA.

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