About Us

AGBC Munich provides a well-rounded business networking platform with strong contacts to the Munich area American, German, and international business communities.
We meet on the last Wednesday of every month (excluding July, August, and December).
Our monthly meetings are held in English and feature guest speakers who address current business, technology, and cultural topics, e.g., disruptive innovation, corporate social responsibility, business negotiations, entrepreneurism, big data, digitalization/artificial intelligence trends, etc.
We also hold special events throughout the year: 1-2 Exchange events, an afternoon at the Oktoberfest, a Christmas dinner, as well as joint events with affiliated business groups in the Munich area.

To find out more about how to join us, please see our Why Join? section.

Member Voices

The AGBC has personally helped me to bring various spheres of my life together – making me a more balanced and well-rounded person in the process as well as giving me a stronger sense of home in a city I am still getting to know better.

Charlotte von Harsdorf, 4 Questions to Charlie

The AGBC gives me that international flavour that Munich (sometimes) is missing. Networking and making new friends at its best.

Sascha Liebhardt, 4 Questions to Sascha

AGBC is an excellent platform to meet people with similar interests from various backgrounds, all working together to foster collaboration across the Atlantic and to develop the local business environment.

Beinur Giumali, 4 Questions to Beinur

Why join? I guess the variety of individuals in the club to interact with opens up a broad set of views, experiences, mindsets to connect with.

Sven Eric Molzahn, 4 Questions to Sven Eric

The club helped me, when I was looking to meet business people based in Munich and to develop my local connections.

Jennifer Canale, 4 Questions to Jennifer

I would encourage others to join because of the exceptionally welcoming community. Despite the name it is also a very international group, which I always appreciate.

Eleanor Mayrhofer, 4 Questions to Eleanor

The reason I would recommend AGBC to others is the network that exists within this club (the chance to meet a variety of people from different working sectors, different nationalities).

Takuya Kamiyama, 4 questions to Takuya

I met couple of AGBC members during my first days in Munich and they were very supportive, referring me to a number of people that could help me get my feet on the ground. This helped me a lot at the time

Dan Norenberg, 4 questions to Dan

History

The American-German Business Club concept was founded in 1964 in Bonn by a group of American businessmen.

Little did they realize their “Luncheon Group” would evolve into a national organization benefiting hundreds of American and German business people in Germany, and significantly promoting international cooperation between our two countries.

Since the fall of the Wall in 1989, the main emphasis the America-German relationship has been on commerce – strengthened by long-standing cultural ties. The AGBC grew during the 1990s with the founding of new chapters.

Our former persidents:
1996-1999 Neil Wilson
1999-2001 Mitch Wolfson
2001-2005 Christopher Magyar
2005-2007 Patrick Brennan
2007-2009 Simon Jones
2009-2012 Martin Gebuhr
2012-2020 Larry Schulz
2020-present Constanze Sabathil

Today

The AGBC has 600+ members with chapters in Bonn, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Kaiserslautern, Munich, Stuttgart and Wiesbaden-Mainz. These members come from a wide background of business-related professions. The AGBC chapters feature expertise in American and German business relations.

Interaction within and across German/American organizations is now even more important. The AGBC chapters remain politically neutral by charter. We locally nurture the transatlantic partnerships, especially those related to trade and business. This includes providing forums with other American, German, and international networking and educational organizations to promote understanding of the evolving shifts in international business momentum and to identify the underlying opportunities. The AGBC supports free trade, the sharing of ideas benefiting both countries, and personal interaction between business people within Germany. The AGBC is open to people of all nationalities who support its goals.