Stanford Club of Germany

The Stanford Alumni Club of Germany, e.V. (later Stanford Club of Germany, e.V. = SCoG) was founded in 1980. The SCoG soon endorsed Stanford in Berlin as flagship program for German development activities. Successful projects funded through the SCoG include

• the Visiting German Chair at Stanford (enabled by 10-years’ funding through the Auswärtiges Amt and the Volkswagen-Stiftung, ca. 1980-1990)
• liaising with the Stiftung Deutsche Klassenlotterie Berlin for major restoration and modernization projects on Haus Cramer (Stanford’s H.G. Will Center, Berlin)
• facilitating the purchase of Haus Cramer for Stanford University with donations of H.G. Will and through Stanford President Gerhard Casper
• the Krupp Internship Program for Stanford Students in Germany (1982 – present)
• the Stanford Symposia on Transition in Europe at Stanford in Berlin (1991-1996)
• Stanford-Siemens Student Workshops on Globalization (early 2000s, in Berlin and Beijing)
• establishment of the SCoG Endowment for Stanford in Berlin, enabled through the support of German partners, which provides supplemental funding for the Krupp Internship Program and funds the “SCoG Visiting Lectureship in German Studies”
• liaising to the Gerda Henkel Guest Professorship in the Historical Humanities (since 2009)
• endowment of the Graduate Research and Internship Program in Germany (GRIP/ since 2017)
• sponsoring of prizes for superlative student essays and language learning in the German Studies Program at Stanford.  

For more information about the SCoG visit their website.