Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

The Senate’s duties include appointing members of the Executive Board, defining the outlines of Fraunhofer’s science and research policy, and formulating decisions concerning the establishment, devolution, merger or dissolution of research entities belonging to the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft.

• Dr. Oliver Blume
  Chairman of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG
  and Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
• Dr. Roland Busch
  President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG
• Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath
  Executive Vice President Gas and Low Carbon Energy und Mitglied des Vorstands der BP p.l.c.
• Otto Fricke, MP
  Member of the German Bundestag and the FDP federal executive board, budget spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group
• Kerstin Grosse
  Managing Director of DEROSSI invest GmbH
  Deputy Chairwoman of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Sabine Herold
  Managing Partner, DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Pär Malmhagen
  Senior Advisor
• Bernard Meyer
  Chief Executive Officer, MEYER WERFT GmbH & Co. KG
• Hildegard Müller
  President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry
  Chairwoman of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Prof. Dr. phil. Anja Reinalter, MP
  Member of the German Bundestag and parliamentary director of the Alliance 90/The Greens faction, professor of social work at Kempten University
• Sönke Rix, MP
  Member of the German Bundestag and deputy chairman of the SPD parliamentary group
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h. c. mult. Ulrich Rüdiger
  Rector of the RWTH Aachen
• Dr.-Ing. Katrin Sternberg
  President Medical and member of the management of CeramTec GmbH
• Dr. Karl Tragl
  Chairman and CEO of Wacker Neuson SE
• Grazia Vittadini
  Lufthansa Chief Technology Officer and Member of the Executive Team
• Dr.-Ing. Anna-Katharina Wittenstein
  Member of the Supervisory Board of WITTENSTEIN SE
• Prof. Dr. Vanessa Wood
  Vice President for Knowledge Transfer and Corporate Relations at the ETH Zürich
• Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Oliver Zipse
  Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG
  Deputy chair of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

• Parliamentary Secretary of State Mario Brandenburg
  Federal Ministry of Education and Research, BMBF
• State Secretary Christoph Degen
  Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and the ArtsHessisches Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung, Kunst und Kultur
• MinDirig Dr. Ole Janssen
  German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, BMWK
• State Secretary Dr. Henry Marx
  Berlin Senate Department for Science, Health and Care
• MinDirig Alexander Schott
  German Federal Ministry of Defence, BMVg
• MDgin Rita Schutt
  Federal Ministry of Finance, BMF
• State Secretary Gonca Türkeli-Dehnert
  Ministry of Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia

• Prof. Dr. Albert Heuberger
  Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
• Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Schmidt
  Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
  Deputy chair, Scientific and Technical Council
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Tünnermann
  Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering IOF
  Chairman, Scientific and Technical Council

• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.-Ing. E.h. Dr. h.c. Ekkehard D. Schulz

• Prof. Dr. Patrick Cramer
  President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science e. V.
• State Councilor Dr. Eva Gümbel
  Authority for Science, Research, Gender Equality and Districts of Hamburg
• State Secretary Dr. Andreas Handschuh
  Saxon State Ministry for Science, Culture and Tourism
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla
  Chairwoman of the Executive Board, German Aerospace Center e. V. (DLR)
• Dipl.-Phys. Doris Rösler
  Chair of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft general works council
  Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
• Dipl.-Inform. Stefan Rughöft
  Deputy chair of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft general works council, 
  Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wick
  Chairman, German Council of Science
• State Secretary Thomas Wünsch
  Ministry of Science, Energy, Climate Protection and Environment Saxony-Anhalt