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Board of Trustees
The foundation’s Board of Trustees is made up of top businesspeople and leading experts. It provides stimulus, monitors the quality and efficiency of the foundation’s work, and also complements the latter’s activities with know-how from the fields of research, science and business practice.
The members of the Board of Trustees
Andrea Alexandra Alber
Managing Partner
GEZE GmbH, Leonberg
Günter Albers
Executive Partner
ELA-Container GmbH, Haren
Tobias Bachmüller
Managing Partner
Katjes Fassin GmbH & Co. KG, Emmerich
Dr. Friderike Bagel
Partner
Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Düsseldorf
Norbert Basler
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Basler AG, Ahrensburg
Prof. Hans B. Bauerfeind
Chairman of the board
Bauerfeind AG, Zeulenroda
Beate Beck-Deharde
Managing Partner
Beck Packautomaten GmbH & Co. KG, Frickenhausen
Hans Beckhoff
Managing Director
Beckhoff Automation GmbH & Co. KG, Verl
Andreas Bettermann
Executive Partner
Bettermann GmbH, Cologne
J. Michael Boquoi
Vice-Chairman of the Foundation Board
bofrost* Stiftung Pont, Straelen
Werner Borgers
Formerly: Member of the Supervisory Board
Borgers AG, Bocholt
Prof. Dr. Ing. Hans-Jörg Bullinger
Member of the Senate
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Munich
Michael Busch
Executive Partner
Herder Thalia Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Hagen
Dr. Werner Conrad
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Conrad Electronic SE, Hirschau
Dr. rer. pol. Philipp Dehn
Chairman of the Administrative Board / CEO
Dehn SE, Neumarkt
Ulrich Dietz
Chairman of the Administrative Board
GFT Technologies SE, Stuttgart
Xue Hong Dong-Geis
Partner
Geis Holding GmbH & Co. KG, Nürnberg
Max Finger
Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Lenze SE, Aerzen
Prof. E.h. Senator E.h., E.h. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Klaus Fischer
Owner and chairman of the management
fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Waldachtal
Thomas Fischer
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Mann + Hummel GmbH, Ludwigsburg
Dr. Hans-Peter Friedrich, Bundesminister a.D.
Vice-President of the German Bundestag
Wolfgang Fritsch-Albert
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Westfalen AG, Münster
Christel Gausepohl
Partner
Thüringer Fleisch- und Wurstspezialitäten Rainer Wagner GmbH, Dornheim
Ortwin Goldbeck
Chairman of the Advisory Board
Goldbeck GmbH, Bielefeld
Kerstin Grosse
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
KOMSA AG, Hartmannsdorf
Philip Hager
Partner and Member of the Supervisory Board
Hager SE, Blieskastel
Oliver Hermes
President & Chief Executive Officer
WILO SE, Dortmund
S.H. Fürst Karl-Friedrich von Hohenzollern
Unternehmensgruppe Fürst von Hohenzollern, Sigmaringen
Hans-Heiner Honold
Managing Partner
Honold Logistik Gruppe GmbH & Co. KG, Neu-Ulm
Ines Hüvel
Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller S.e.c.s., Luxemburg
Johannes Kärcher
Chairman of the Advisory Board
Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG, Winnenden
Thomas Kaeser
Chairman of the Board
KAESER KOMPRESSOREN SE, Coburg
Prof. Edwin Kohl
Board of directors
Kohl Medical AG, Perl
Ilse Lang
Managing Partner
IBW Industriebeteiligungen Worms GmbH & Co.KG, Worms
Dr. Nicola Leibinger-Kammüller
Chairman of the Administrative Board
Trumpf GmbH & Co. KG, Ditzingen
Ute Lesch-Gebhardt
Managing Partner
Gebhardt Transport- und Lagersysteme GmbH, Cham
Robert Lindemann-Berk
Managing Partner
Quarzwerke GmbH, Frechen
Senator E.h. Dr. Thomas Lindner
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt
Dr. Hinrich Mählmann
Chairman of the Advisory Board
OTTO FUCHS KG, Meinerzhagen
Dr. Harald Marquardt
Managing Partner
Marquardt GmbH, Rietheim – Weilheim
Natalie Mekelburger
Managing Partner
Coroplast Fritz Müller GmbH & Co. KG, Wuppertal
Emmerich Müller
Member of the Executive Board
B. Metzler seel. Sohn & Co. Holding AG, Frankfurt
Frank Natus
Managing Partner
NATUS GmbH & Co. KG, Trier
Günther H. Oettinger
Former EU Commissioner
Jan Philippiak
Partner
ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG, Mulfingen
Hartwig Pietzcker
Managing Partner
AKG Unternehmensgruppe, Hofgeismar
Prof. Detlef W. Prinz
Managing Partner
PrinzMedien Holding, Berlin
Angelique Renkhoff-Mücke
Chief Executive Officer and Chairwoman of the Board
WAREMA Renkhoff SE, Marktheidenfeld
Angelika Rheinländer
Partner
Gebr. Eickhoff Maschinenfabrik und Eisengießerei GmbH, Bochum
Florian G. Schauenburg
Managing Partner
Schauenburg International Group, Mühlheim an der Ruhr
Prof. Rolf Schnellecke
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Schnellecke Group AG & Co. KG, Wolfsburg
Rudolf Louis Schweizer
Chairman of the Advisory Board and Partner
Dr. August Oetker KG, Bielefeld
Prof. Dr. Frank Stangenberg-Haverkamp
Chairman Executive Board and Family Board
E. Merck KG, Darmstadt
Selina Stihl
Vice-Chairman of the Advisory Board
STIHL Holding AG & Co. KG, Waiblingen
Frank Straub
Shareholder
E.G.O. Blanc und Fischer & Co. GmbH, Oberderdingen
Dr. H.-Werner Utz
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Uzin Utz SE, Ulm
Christoph Werner
Chief Executive Officer
dm-drogerie markt GmbH + Co. KG, Karlsruhe
Prof. Dr. Kay Windthorst
Shareholder Representive and Member of the Supervisory Board
Haniel GmbH, Duisburg