Speeches
Here you find speeches of the current and past members of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank from the past ten years. Speeches of the former Presidents and Vice-Presidents of the Deutsche Bundesbank date back to 2005.
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Keynote speech Speech at the Frankfurt European Banking Congress "Europe into a New Era – How to Seize the Opportunities"
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Safeguarding the future of monetary union Speech delivered at the German Embassy
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Bundesbank at 60 – committed to a stable currency Speech delivered at the reception marking 60 years of the Bundesbank
Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann has called on the euro-area countries to embrace fiscal prudence, arguing in a speech in Hamburg that the tighter the fiscal space, the more central banks will come under political pressure to stabilise economic activity in the short run – even if that does mean compromising on price stability.
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Exercising responsibility – how monetary union can be made future-proof Speech delivered at the Austrian Society for European Politics
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60 Jahre Bundesbank – Der stabilen Währung verpflichtet Rede beim Empfang "60 Jahre Bundesbank"
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Rede beim Kolloquium in memoriam Prof. Dr. rer. pol. Dr. h.c. mult. Hans Tietmeyer
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Welcome remarks Speech at the Bundesbank Policy Symposium "Frontiers in Central Banking – Past, Present and Future"
To mark its 60th anniversary, the Bundesbank held a high-level symposium in Frankfurt am Main on the future of central banking. Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann highlighted how modern central banking has been shaped by crises, adding that this also applies to the Bundesbank's mandate, which was influenced by the fact that the German population had lost their savings twice in the first half of the 20th century.
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Improving the Investment Climate in Africa – The Role of Institutions Keynote Address at the G20 Conference "G20 Africa Partnership – Investing in a Common Future"
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