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The Coordinator of German-Polish Cooperation
Knut Abraham is the Coordinator of German-Polish Intersocietal and Cross-Border Cooperation. His task is to help the two societies further enhance their ties and to advance joint German-Polish Projects.
Germany and Poland enjoy close neighbourly relations based on their joint membership of NATO (since 1998) and the European Union (since 2004). Historical links, brisk trade, cross-border civil-society activities, youth exchanges, numerous partnerships between municipalities and regions as well as a dense network of cooperation in the border region form a stable foundation for our relations.
The office of Coordinator of German-Polish Intersocietal and Cross-Border Cooperation was established in 2004 with a view to strengthening the good-neighbourly ties between the two countries.
Knut Abraham was appointed on 28 May 2025. His predecessors in office were Professor Gesine Schwan (2004‑2009) and former Minister of State Cornelia Pieper (2009‑2013), Dietmar Woidke (2014-2022) and Dietmar Nietan (2022 - 2025).
Knut Abraham has been a Member of the German Bundestag since 2021 and sits on the Committee on Foreign Affairs as well as the Committee on Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid. He is also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. Until 2018, he was Head of the Division for Bilateral Relations with the States of Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe as well as Central Asia and the Southern Caucasus at the Federal Chancellery.
Curriculum vitae Knut Abraham
Knut Abraham has been the Coordinator of German-Polish Intersocietal and Cross-Border Cooperation since 28 May 2025. His task is to help the two societies further enhance their ties and to advance joint German-Polish projects.