Foundation for the Rights of Future Generations

According to the foundation’s founding call and their website, there were Jörg Tremmel and five co-founders between the ages of 18 and 27. They came together as a non-partisan alliance of students who wanted to promote intergenerational equity in terms of the environment, as well as the economy. After securing funding from donors, the SRzG was formally established as a foundation in December 1997. In 2006, political scientist Martin Thunert characterized the FRFG as an activist "mini-tank" running on a shoestring budget compared to state-funded think tanks and academically oriented institutes in Germany.

In the early years, Tremmel adopted a confrontational approach, telling journalists that he was campaigning against "generational fraud" in the provision of pensions. In 2004, Tremmel appeared on a BBC Two drama-documentary, If...The Generations Fall Out, saying, "We are not going to keep quiet when a band of pampered pensioners steal the future from us."

In practice, Tremmel and his colleagues realized that working collaboratively would better serve the interests of young people. FRFG has since stated that it "rejects notions of generational war, has a culture of discussion and dialogue, and focuses on learning about intergenerational issues and change." Tremmel himself presented the foundation's position paper on pensions to Walter Riester, the German Federal Minister for Labor and Social Affairs. More recently, the FRFG has advocated augmenting the responsibilities of Germany's Parliamentary Advisory Council for Sustainable Development (PBnE), while also promoting an extra-parliamentary Ecological Council, and positioning the Federal Constitutional Court as the "guardian of intergenerational justice".