Jörg Himmelreich

Jörg Himmelreich is a German journalist.

Himmelreich is a member of an EU investigative commission examining the Russo-Georgian War of August 2008. According to Der Spiegel, he has opposed a majority view assigning Georgia substantive blame for the conflict.

He advocates Georgia's acceptance into NATO and condones the "brief Georgian occupation of the South Ossetia capital Tskhinvali" with the argument that Georgian President Saakashvili faced "great pressure from within his own population to produce results," and to deliver on a promise he had made several times to achieve "reunification" with the separatist republic.

Himmelreich sharply condemns Russia's actions as "aggression" and a "violation of international law."

Affiliations

• German Marshall Fund of the United States