Note · At least one filing discloses a foreign entity with an interest in a client this registrant represents. Those disclosures are listed below.
Reported spend over time
Every filing period on record, as reported. One column per filed period — a period with no column is a period with no filing, not a zero.
Basis · Amendments and terminations supersede the original report for the same registrant, client and period, so a revised quarter is counted once at its latest filed value. Registration-only filings carry no activity money and are excluded from these totals.
Who they lobby for
This registrant files only on its own behalf — it has never reported a fee for representing anyone else.
Reported as lobbying expenses
Money reported as spent on lobbying rather than as a fee charged to a client.
This record groups every filed spelling of the registrant's name into one entity, so punctuation variants of the same firm read as one. The grouping is the registrant's normalized name — firms that file under genuinely different names appear separately. Handle: representative-of-german-industry-and-trade.
Reading this · An LD-2 reports either a fee the registrant charged or expenses it spent, never both on one filing, so the two lists above are different quantities and are ranked separately rather than against each other. The expenses basis is what an organization lobbying on its own behalf files — usually for itself, sometimes for an affiliate under a different name — so a name on the second list is the client the filing names, not necessarily a claim that the registrant lobbied for someone else's account. Across every relationship on file — not just those shown — this registrant reported $0 in fees and $73K in expenses.
4 filings
Foreign Relations
FOR · 1 client
4 filings
Computer Industry
CPI · 1 client
2 filings
Taxation/Internal Revenue Code
TAX · 1 client
2 filings
Note · A filing names one to several issue areas and reports a single dollar figure for the period, so the same money appears beside every issue that filing declares. The dollar column is therefore money on filings that named this issue — it is not a split of the total, and these figures sum above it. Filing counts do not double-count.
Thomas M ZielkeCovered position: President & CEO, Representative of German Industry and Trade
10 filings1 client · through 2016
Lindi Dorothee Von Mutius8 filings1 client · through 2015
E Thomas ColemanCovered position: Former Member of the House of Representatives7 filings1 client · through 2010
Freya LemckeCovered position: Vice President, Representative of German Industry and Trade6 filings1 client · through 2018
Caitlin HickeyCovered position: Director of Government Relations and Legal Affairs, Representative of German Industry and Trade5 filings1 client · through 2018
Elizabeth LivengoodCovered position: Director of Trade Policy3 filings1 client · through 2014
Covered positions · 9 of 10 lobbyists named on these filings disclosed a prior government post. A covered official position is the LD-2 field a lobbyist uses to report having held one; the text is reproduced exactly as filed.
Federation of German Industries
Germany
1 filing
through 2008
Federation of German Industries Bundesverband Der Deutschen
Germany
1 filing
through 2008
What this discloses · An LD-2 reports foreign entities that hold an interest in, or contribute to, the client — so these are foreign interests behind the organizations this registrant files for, not owners of the registrant itself. Disclosure is a reporting requirement, not an allegation.
