The Board of Trustees is responsible in particular for the following tasks:
The Foundation is represented in and out of court by the Board of Trustees, which is represented by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees together with one of his deputies or jointly by two of the deputies of the Chairman.
The Board of Trustees shall be represented by two of the Vice-Chairmen only if the Chairman is unable to attend.
President of the German Nature Conservation Ring (DNR)
Managing Director VAUDE Sport GmbH & Co. KG
Member of the German Bundestag
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), Bremerhaven
Member of the German Bundestag
Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
ver.di – United Services Union, Federal Executive Board (ret.)
Member of the German Bundestag
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg
Chair ABWL, esp. Organization and corporate governance
Georg-August University Göttingen
Albrecht von Haller Institute for Plant Sciences
Department of Plant Ecology and Ecosystem Research
Minister for the Environment, Energy, Building and Climate Protection of the State of Lower Saxony
Member of the German Bundestag
State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Member of the German Bundestag
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI and Chair of Innovation and Technology Management (iTM), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)