{"id":41634,"date":"2026-05-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/board-of-trustees\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T10:53:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:53:47","slug":"board-of-trustees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/about-us\/german-federal-environmental-foundation\/board-of-trustees\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Trustees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Board of trustees<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/header>\n\n\n
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The Foundation’s Board of Directors – and therefore its most important body – exercises control functions and votes on important decisions.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Board of Trustees is responsible in particular for the following tasks:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Determination of the funding guidelines<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Preparation of an annual business plan<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Decision on the awarding of funding<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Preparation of the annual financial statements<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Preparation and publication of the annual report on the activities of the Foundation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Decision on the awarding of the environmental prize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Representation of the Foundation<\/strong> (\u00a7 6 of the foundation statutes)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Board of Trustees shall be represented by two of the Vice-Chairmen only if the Chairman is unable to attend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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    The composition of the board of trustees<\/h2>\n\n\n
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    Chairman of the Board of Trustees<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Prof. Dr. Kai Niebert<\/strong>
    President Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR)<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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    Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Carsten M\u00fcller<\/strong>
    Member of the German Bundestag<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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    Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Prof. Dr. Katharina Reuter<\/strong>
    Managing Director BNW Bundesverband Nachhaltige Wirtschaft e. V.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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    Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees<\/em><\/em><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Dr. Christine Wilcken<\/strong>
    Directorate-General W, Water Management, Water Protection, Marine Protection, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Climate Action, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n

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    Dr. Beate Baron<\/strong>
    Director-General, Industrial Policy, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy<\/p>\n\n\n\n




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    Jakob Blankenburg<\/strong>
    Member of the German Bundestag<\/p>\n\n\n\n




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    Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius<\/strong>
    Pr\u00e4sidentin und Gesch\u00e4ftsf\u00fchrerin
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI), U.S.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n




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    Harald Ebner<\/strong>
    Member of the German Bundestag
    Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection in the German Bundestag<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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    Prof. Dr. Christiane Hipp<\/strong>
    President of the European University of Flensburg<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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    Dr. Silke Launert<\/strong>
    Member of the German Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Research, Technology and Space


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    Dr. Sabine Mauderer<\/strong>
    Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank



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    Wilhelm Mau\u00df<\/strong>
    Managing Director Lorenz GmbH & Co. KG<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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    Christian Meyer<\/strong>
    Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection of Lower Saxony<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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    Dennis Rohde<\/strong>
    Member of the German Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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    Christoph Schmitz-Dethlefsen<\/strong>
    Member of the ver.di Federal Executive Board<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n

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    Prof. Dr. Karsten Wesche<\/strong>
    Site Director of the Senckenberg Museum f\u00fcr Naturkunde G\u00f6rlitz Head of Section Phanerogamen I and Professor of Plant Biodiversity at the Technical University of Dresden<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":41632,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-41634","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"meta_box":{"dbu_headerimage_cover":"0","dbu_submenu":"0","dbu_submenu_position":"","dbu_submenu_entry":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41634"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194636,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41634\/revisions\/194636"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/41632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dbu.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}