Senate

Duties of the Senate

Duties

The Senate acts as a supervisory and advisory body to the Executive Board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. Among other things, it appoints the President and the other members of the Executive Board and defines the main features of the scientific and research strategy. It also decides on the establishment, conversion or dissolution of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft institutions.

Members from the science and business communities, and from public life

Dr. Annette Beller
Member of the Administrative Board of GFT Technologies SE
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
Otto Fricke
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
Bernard Meyer
Board of Directors Meyer Neptun Foundation
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
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h. c. mult. Ulrich Rüdiger
Rector of the RWTH Aachen
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. Dr. h. c. Oliver Zipse
Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG
Deputy chair of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Members representing government institutions

Representatives of the federal level

State Secretary Stephan Ertner
Federal Ministry of Education and Research BMBF
MinDirig Dr. Ole Janssen
German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, BMWK
MinDirig Alexander Schott
German Federal Ministry of Defence, BMVg
MDgin Rita Schutt
Federal Ministry of Finance, BMF

Representatives of the federal states

State Secretary Tobias Gotthardt
Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy
MDir Katharina Heil
Ministry of Science and Health of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate
State Secretary Guido Wendt
Ministry of Education and Training, Science, Research and Culture of the State of Schleswig-Holstein

Members delegated by the Scientific and Technical Council (STC)

Prof. Dr. Elizabeth von Hauff
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Electron Beam and Plasma Technology FEP
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Peter Ohlhausen
Head of Research Coordination at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO
Deputy chair Scientific and Technical Council
Prof. Dr. Anita Schöbel
Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM
Chairwoman Scientific and Technical Council

Honorary senator

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

Permanent guests

Dipl.-Phys. Doris Rösler
Chair of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft general works council
Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics IBP
State Secretary Tobias Dünow
Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the State of Brandenburg
State Secretary Susanne Bowen
Ministry of Science, Culture, Federal and European Affairs of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Minister Dr. Nicole Hoffmeister-Kraut
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Labor and Tourism of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg

Members