2008

October 6, 2008

Rödl's Grand Prix
Location: Victory Lane Karting

September 15, 2008

Continuance of our Speaker Series; we want to continue the tradition of an elegant dinner featuring a well-known key-note speaker (you might remember, we had Jens Bischof head of all Lufthansa activities in all of the Americas and this year, Frank Hornig, the DER SPIEGEL correspondent in New York.)

August 2008

Pub Night

July 25-27, 2008

“The Transatlantic Relationship….. From A Global Perspective”

An intellectual fireworks at the Southeast World Affairs Institute in Black Mountain. NC (15 miles east of Ashville, 1.1/2 hours from Charlotte). This event will be organized in conjunction with the American Freedom Association. It is an international conference, with international exciting speakers, which is attended by about 100-125 people. It will take place for the 55th time and I will moderate it for the 10th time. If you want references, please contact Bob Duffy, Firoz Peera, Ronnie Pruett Katrin Rosenberg, or Markus Schlüter or their spouses who had attended this tear’s Conference. It will be a pleasant mind-stimulating pleasant weekend in cooler weather with enough spare time to explore the surroundings and some good restaurants.

May 16, 2008

White Asparagus Feast

The White Asparagus Feast will take place again in the ritzy restaurant TABLE in Ballantyne’s. Only 30 places are available. Early registration is urgently recommended.

April 16, 2008

Gateway Award Presentation

The Gateway Award Presentation in the elegant City Club in Charlotte.

Dr. Görgens, the new Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany, will come to Charlotte for the  main purpose to present this prestigious award to a worthy company.

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March 6, 2008

Product Viewing & Presentation of Solar Thermal Water Heating System

Join us for a product viewing and learn more about the Schüco Solar and SolarSunworld Solar Thermal Water Heating System. A short presentation will explain the system concept, installation, operation, return on investment, and environmental impact reductions. This event is being initiated by the Alemannia Society of Charlotte in cooperation with the GACC South Chapter North Carolina.

Location: Waldhorn Restaurant, 12101 Lancaster Hwy , Pineville , NC , 28134
Date: Thursday, March 6th, 7:00 pm, Ample time for networking afterwards
You do not need to RSVP.

February 9, 2008

Valentine’s Ball

The super-elegant international Valentine’s Ball organized under the umbrella of the German American Chamber of Commerce and supported by the French and Latin American Chamber of Commerce will take place in the elegant Piper Glen Country Club. Many tables are already now pre-reserved and I am afraid we will have to turn down again late-registers. Early registration strongly recommended.

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February 4, 2008

The European American Business Forum

Charlotte, NC

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January 24, 2008

On Thursday, January 24, the S.C. Chapter and the N.C. Chapter will organize for the first time an event together:

Michael Wagner, Chief Commercial Officer of the new steel mill in Alabama SeverCorr, will speak about “The New Steel Landscape in the Southern USA”.

The event will take place in the Grand Ballroom of the University of South Carolina in Spartanburg and starts at 6 pm. Individual invitations will be sent out at the appropriate time.

November 7, 2007

OTTO….”Putting Class in Trash”

"We put Class into Trash" was the motto under which the event of the Nov. 7, 2007 was organized in the facilities of Otto Industries. This is truly an impressive company, one of the largest producer of trash cans. 95,000,000 carts (as they call the rash cans) produced by OTTO are dispersed all over the world.

They opened their production facilities to us showing impressive huge plastic injection molding machines. They are in process of drastically increasing their cycle times of the trash cans from 185 to 57 seconds. It was a special honor that the Chairman of OTTO worldwide Luc Muller attended the event with his wife.

They were very generous hosts offering a nice German-oriented buffet and drinks. We are grateful to the OTTO team (in particular Stephen, David, Kirsti and Nori as well as the plant managers Cooper and Rich, and of course Luc) for arranging such a nice and informative evening.

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October 15, 2007

Rödl's First Grand Prix

What an astounding success! An unprecedented two weeks before the event was taking place it was booked out to the last space.
Jeff Gordon and Michael Schumacher move over! New talents are taking over!

The event took place in the indoor Victory Karting Lane, just seven minutes outside of Charlotte's city center. Modeled after the Schumacher go-kart courses in Germany and equipped with true German go-karts the racing was tough and (mostly) fair. More than 60 members and friends congregated to attend this exciting event; the course was reserved for us for three hours exclusively.

Good news: the Director of the GACC N.C. Chapter considerably improved from the last place in his first run to the last-to-the-last place in his second run.

A BIG Thank-You to Rödl/Langford de Kock: not only did the company sponsor this event with a significant amount, but Rick's new assistant Rachel excelled in putting all the details of the event together.
Thank you also Stefanie who feels more and more comfortable in her role as Event Manager.

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October 10, 2007

Signing of the Agreement with the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce

During a generous luncheon at The Palm Restaurant, various international chambers of commerce, among others the Asian, Black, French, the Latin and the German Chamber of Commerce congregated under the umbrellaship of the Charlotte Chamber of Commerce. The purpose was the signing of an Agreement with the Charlotte Chamber whose core contents consisted of making sure that the intercommunication of the various ethnicities is warranted. Further the Charlotte Chamber offered a special discount to member companies of the various international chambers with 5 or less employees.

September 17, 2007

Germany's Third 'Wirtschaftswunder'?

A Discussion and Dinner with Frank Hornig, New York Correspondent, Der Spiegel

Frank Hornig, reporter for DER SPIEGEL in New York came to Charlotte yesterday just for our GACC event. After a Champagne reception, about 65 attending people enjoyed a nice dinner in the elegant Piper Glen Country Club. After dinner, Mr. Hornig spoke to the topic: “Germany’s Third Wirtschaftswunder?”

Our Sponsor Lufthansa not only supported the event by inviting guests of their own to the event but also provided a transatlantic ticket to be raffled away. Everybody was of the opinion that is was a very successful evening.

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August 18, 2007

The Arequipa Day

The N.C. Chapter of the GACC-South very much considers itself as a very integral part of the international community. Therefore, we partnered up with Charlotte’s Sister City Committee which was welcoming a delegation of Charlotte’s sister city in Peru:  Arequipa. The event took place in the new Jerald Melberg Gallery.

July 17, 2007

YEC Event.

It was the idea of our board member Dirk Koltze to organize a YEC event in Charlotte for the first time which was, of course, a success. It took place at the Piper Glen Country Club which offered some tee-off possibilities for upcoming golfers besides hors-d’œuvres and refreshments.

The YEC event will offer more people the opportunity to learn about the easy way of communicating with each other and the event will be a feature again on our program calendar next year again, possibly at a different location.

June 13, 2007

What a Success: Johnson & Wales in Charlotte.

The event was sponsored by the honorable CPA firm Greer and Walker who generously provided the catering. Tracy Pardue Brener was as representative of Johnson & Wales the key note speaker. Many in Charlotte do not know that J&W is one of the three culinary leading universities in the country and that already in the second year more than 2000 students graduated from this prestigious school.

May 18, 2007

The White Asparagus Feast.

It is always a gamble to introduce a new event in the year’s program: will people attend? will they like it? should we organize it again? No worries what concerns The White Asparagus Feast. Only a “save-the-date-note” was sent out and more than the allocated 28 seats were sold. The festive event took place on the mezzanine of the ritzy new restaurant TABLE in Ballantyne’s. A five course meal –of course, dedicated to the white asparagus- was served and was a full success.
This event yearns for a repetition in 2008.

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April 10, 2007

Presentation of the Gateway Award.

Again, Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany Hans-Jörg Brunner came up from Atlanta to present the prestigious The Gateway Award to a company which had earned merits for the German-American trade relationship. For the first time, a German company was honored: American Truetzschler which is one of the most innovative producers of textile machinery in the world. Its president Kurt Scholler accepted the award and gave a witty thank-you speech. The Gateway Award has become a firm feature in the yearly program of the N.C. Chapter of the GACC-South and its limited seating capacity has always been sold out.

Next year’s Award Ceremony is planned for April 16 and we certainly do hope that the new Consul General will continue the tradition to present the award.

We certainly thank our generous sponsor Ernst & Young to have supported this event for the third time and we were assured by its partner Markus Schlüter that he will sponsor it again in 2008. Many thanks to this company.

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