Mathias Von Gersdorff -  Former Guest Speaker at the Leadership Institute

Mathias von Gersdorff was born in Santiago de Chile in 1964. He studied economics in Heidelberg and Bonn and graduated 1989. He worked several years as a banker in London and Frankfurt/Main. From 1990 he became an activist in Germany’s Pro-Life movement (Aktion SOS Leben) and in the German Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – TFP. Since 1993 he coordinated the activities of the campaign "Kinder in Gefahr" against pornography, blasphemy and violence in the media. During the government of Gerhard Schröder he organized many campaigns against "homosexual marriage".

Mathias v. Gersdorff is the author of many books about family and media issues. He also writes regularly for many newsletters and is the editor of several publications.  He is the president of the German Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property – TFP.
Mathias Von Gersdorff