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.

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

Lars Baumgürtel

Executive Partner

ZINQ GmbH & Co. KG, Gelsenkirchen

Beate Beck-Deharde

Executive Partner

Beck Packautomaten GmbH & Co. KG, Frickenhausen

Hans Beckhoff

Executive Partner

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 Holfing GmbH & Co. KG, Hagen

Dr. Werner Conrad

Chairman of the Board of Directors

Conrad Electronic SE, Hirschau

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

Professor h.c. Senator h.c. mult. Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Klaus Fischer

Owner and Chairman of the Advisory Board

fischerwerke GmbH & Co. KG, Waldachtal

Thomas Fischer

Chairman

Mann + Hummel GmbH, Ludwigsburg

Dr. Hans-Peter Friedrich, Federal Minister (ret.)

Member of the German Bundestag, Berlin

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

Dipl.-Oec. Oliver Hermes

President and 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

Johannes Kärcher

Chairman of the Advisory Board

Alfred Kärcher SE & Co. KG, Winnenden

Thomas Kaeser

Chairman of the Board

KAESER KOMPRESSOREN SE, Coburg

Isabel Knauf

Member of the Shareholders’ Committee

Gebrüder Knauf KG, Iphofen

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 SE + Co. KG, Ditzingen

Ute Lesch-Gebhardt

Managing Partner

Gebhardt Transport- und Lagersysteme GmbH, Cham

Robert Lindemann-Berk

Managing Partner

Quarzwerke GmbH, Frechen

Honorary Senator Dr. Thomas Lindner

Chairman of the Supervisory Board

Groz-Beckert KG, Albstadt

Dr. Hinrich Mählmann

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

Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory 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 Group, Mulfingen

Hartwig Pietzcker

Managing Partner

AKG Group, 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. KK, Karlsruhe

Prof. Dr. Kay Windthorst

Shareholder Representive and Member of the Supervisory Board

Franz Haniel & Cie. GmbH, Duisburg