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History, Mission

The Indianapolis-Cologne Sister City Partnership Committee is part of Sister Cities International, a tax-exempt, non-profit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to foster international understanding at all levels of the community on a continuing long-term basis. Since its founding in 1988, the focus of the committee has remained the same: forging person-to-person bonds between Indianapolis and Cologne.

Our German counterpart organization is Freundeskreis Koeln - Indianapolis. Its first chairman was Volkmar Schultz, former member of the German Bundestag from North Rhine-Westphalia. Current chairman is Hartwig Pruessmann.
 

For information on Cologne's Sister City programs, click on German American Society Cologne.
 

For information on Cologne, click here.

Why Sister Cities?

• It allows the city officials and citizens of both cities to experience and grow to understand another culture and develop friendships.

• It stimulates education, exchanges in the arts, and encourages tourism. It also provides economic opportunities.

• Persons of different cultures learn to work and solve problems together on municipal, business, technological, and professional levels.

• It creates people-to-people connections.