Supervisory Board
Ludwig Schöpfer für VolkswagenStiftung
The Board of Trustees is the Foundation's supervisory and control body. Its members - 14 personalities from academia, politics and business - meet three times a year with members of the Foundation's executive office. Half of the Board of Trustees is appointed by the founders of the Volkswagen Foundation, i.e. the federal government of Germany and the state government of Lower Saxony. The term of office is five years and can be extended once by five years. The Board of Trustees is free to make its own decisions and is only bound by the statutes.
Members of the Supervisory Board
Falko Mohrs
(Chair)
Minister for Science and Culture of Lower Saxony
(Foto: Lydia Boenisch)
Professor Dr. Hans Michael Heinig
(Vice Chairperson)
Chair for Public Law and Ecclesiastical Law, University of Göttingen
Dr. Karl-Eugen Huthmacher
(Vice Chairperson)
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Professor Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow
Head of Institute for Sustainable Urbanism, TU Braunschweig
Professor Dr. Cornelia Denz
President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the National Metrology Institute of Germany; Professor of Experimental Physics and Gender Research in Physics
Professor Dr. Claudia Eckert
Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC); Chair of IT Security, Technical University of Munich
Professor Dr. Christine Falk
Director of the Institut for Transplantation Immunology, Hannover Medical School (MHH), Hannover
Professor Dr. Jens Martin Gurr
Chair in British and Anglophone Literature and Culture at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Foto: Daniel Schumann/Universität Duisburg-Essen)
Elke Hannack
Vice President of the German Confederation of Trade Unions
(Foto: DGB/Simone M. Neumann)
Professor Dr. Sebastian Lehnhoff
Professor for Energy Informatics at the University of Oldenburg, Chairman of the Board of OFFIS e.V.
Prof. Dr. Jan Plefka
Theoretical Physics (Quantum Fields & Strings), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
(Foto: Jan Plefka)
Thomas Schmall-von Westerholt
Member of the Board of Management Volkswagen AG, Technology
Professor Dr. Peter Schrijver
Chair for Celtic languages and culture, Utrecht University
Professor Dr. Birgitta Wolff
Rectorate, University of Wuppertal
(Foto: Uwe Dettmar)