The Foundation’s Board of Directors – and therefore its most important body – exercises control functions and votes on important decisions.
The Board of Trustees is responsible in particular for the following tasks:
- Determination of the funding guidelines
- Preparation of an annual business plan
- Decision on the awarding of funding
- Preparation of the annual financial statements
- Preparation and publication of the annual report on the activities of the Foundation
- Decision on the awarding of the environmental prize
Representation of the Foundation (§ 6 of the foundation statutes)
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.
The staffing
Chairman of the Board of Trustees
Prof. Dr. Kai Niebert
President Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR)
Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees
Dr. Bettina Hoffmann
Member of the German Bundestag
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection
Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees
Elisabeth Kaiser
Member of the German Bundestag
Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Housing, Urban Development and Construction
Vice Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees
Dr. Katharina Reuter
Managing Director BNW Bundesverband Nachhaltige Wirtschaft e. V.
Steffen Bilger
Member of the German Bundestag
Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag
Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius
Director Alfred Wegener Institute,
Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)
Harald Ebner
Member of the German Bundestag
Chairman of the Committee on the Environment, Nature Conservation, Nuclear Safety and Consumer Protection in the German Bundestag
Prof. Dr. Christiane Hipp
President of Europa-Universität Flensburg
Dr. Sabine Mauderer
Vice President of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Wilhelm Mauß
Managing Director Lorenz GmbH & Co. KG
Christian Meyer
Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection of Lower Saxony
Christoph Schmitz-Dethlefsen
Member of the ver.di Federal Executive Board
Carsten Träger
Member of the German Bundestag
Spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group for the environment, nature conservation, nuclear safety and consumer protection
Prof. Dr. Karsten Wesche
Site Director of the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz Head of Section Phanerogamen I and Professor of Plant Biodiversity at the Technical University of Dresden