Wednesday, 4/15/2026
at 7:30 PM



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In the series "Forum Demokratie im Frankfurter Bürgersalon," topics are debated that fundamentally touch our free way of life and our liberal democracy. We invite a careful discourse where the position of the other is respected, criticism and self-criticism are allowed, and the competition of ideas can unfold freely. Prof. Dr. Ulrike Ackermann, sociologist and political scientist, director of the John Stuart Mill Institute in Bad Homburg and author of numerous books, invites clever minds from politics, science, and culture to join the conversation, who with their interventions provide new impulses for our debates.

Our state has become dysfunctional in many areas, overwhelmed, overregulated, and bureaucratized. All of this threatens political stability and exacerbates the crisis of trust. Without innovation, growth, and functioning infrastructure, we cannot build prosperity. Fundamental reforms must be initiated to rebuild a capable state and regain trust in it.

Kay Scheller was born in 1960 in Kiel. After studying law at the Christian-Albrechts-University in Kiel, he passed the first legal state examination in 1987 and the second in 1991. He then worked in the State Chancellery of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern as well as in various federal ministries, including the Federal Ministry for Women and Youth and the Federal Ministry for Education and Research. From 1997 to 1999, he was employed at the Federal Chancellery. From 1999, Scheller worked for the CDU/CSU faction in the German Bundestag and became their faction director in 2005. Since June 30, 2014, he has been President of the Federal Court of Audit. In addition, he was a member of the United Nations Board of Auditors from 2016 to 2022 and has been an external auditor for the United Nations World Food Programme since July 2022.

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