Board of Trustees

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

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

• Steffen Bilger
  Member of the German Bundestag
  Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag

• Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius
  Director of the Alfred Wegener Institute,
  Helmholtz Center 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

• Katja Hessel
  Member of the German Bundestag
  Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister of Finance

• Prof. Dr. Christiane Hipp
  Consultant for Science and Culture at the Permanent Representation of the State of Brandenburg to the EU
  Professor in the field of ABWL, in particular organization and corporate management at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg

• 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

• Elisabeth Kaiser
  Member of the German Bundestag
  Parliamentary State Secretary to the Federal Minister for Housing, Urban Development and Construction

• Dr. Sabine Mauderer
  Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Bundesbank

• Wilhelm Mauß
  Managing Director Lorenz GmbH & Co KG

• Christian Meyer
  Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate Protection of Lower Saxony

• Prof. Dr. Kai Niebert
  President Deutscher Naturschutzring (DNR)

• Judith Pirscher
  State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research

• Dr. Katharina Reuter
  Managing Director BNW Bundesverband Nachhaltige Wirtschaft e. V.

• Christoph Schmitz-Dethlefsen
  Member of the ver.di Federal Executive Board

• Carsten Träger
  Member of the German Bundestag
  Spokesman 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