Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees consists of 22 members. It decides all basic issues within the Foundation's remit. It is responsible for the legal and judicial representation of the Foundation. The Board of Trustees appoints the Director and the Advisory Board. All parliamentary parties of the German Bundestag, the German Government, the Federal State of Berlin, the Association Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the Central Council of Jews in Germany, the Jewish Community of Berlin, the Jewish Museum Berlin, the Topography of Terror Foundation and the Working Group of Concentration Camp Memorials in Germany are represented on the Board of Trustees.

Members

Dr. Norbert Lammert
MdB, CDU/CSU
President of the German Bundestag, Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

Lea Rosh
President Association Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Vice-Chairperson of the Board of Trustees

Heinz-Joachim Aris
Central Council of Jews in Germany

Volker Beck
MdB, Bündnis '90/Die Grünen
Parliamentary Secretary of the Bündnis '90/Die Grünen Parliamentary Group

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benz
Guest member in an advisory capacity

Prof. Dr. Michael Blumenthal
Director Jewish Museum, Berlin

Dr. Alexander Brenner
Jewish Community of Berlin

Kay Forster
Association Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Dr. Hans-Peter Friedrich
MdB, CDU/CSU
Federal Minister of the Interior

Prof. Monika Grütters
MdB, CDU/CSU

Prof. Dr. Eberhard Jäckel
Association Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Prof. Dr. Salomon Korn
Vice President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany

Regula Lüscher
Senate Building Director, Senate Berlin

Prof. Dr. Günter Morsch
Director Brandenburg Memorial Foundation, Director Memorial Site Sachsenhausen, Representative of the Working Group of Concentration Camp Memorials in Germany

Prof. Dr. Andreas Nachama
Director Topography of Terror Foundation, Berlin

Bernd Neumann
MdB, CDU/CSU
Minister of State, Government Commissioner for Cultural Affairs and Media

Hans-Joachim Otto
MdB, FDP

Petra Pau
MdB, Die Linke

Michael Roth
MdB, SPD

André Schmitz
Minister of State for Cultural Affairs, Government Berlin

Thomas Strobl
MdB, CDU/CSU

Dr. h. c. Wolfgang Thierse
MdB, SPD
Vice President of the German Bundestag

Dagmar Wöhrl
MdB, CDU/CSU


Advisory Board

The Advisory Board of the Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe consists of representatives of 15 different institutions and social groupings, including survivors' associations, historical research institutes, museums, memorial centres and youth groups. The commission's spokesperson is Professor Wolfgang Benz, former Director of the Centre for Research into Anti-Semitism at the Technical University in Berlin. The main focus of the Board’s work is on ensuring that all victims of Nazi persecution are included in the Foundation's programme and that the discrimination, persecution, deportation and extermination of fellow human beings is kept alive in public memory.

Members


Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Benz
Advisory Board Spokesperson

Lea Rosh
President Association Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Prof. Dr. Waclaw Dlugoborski
President of the International Museum Council of the Auschwitz Memorial

Günter Dworek
Spokesperson for the Lesbian and Gay Federation in Germany

Prof. Dr. Bernd Faulenbach
President of the Historical Commission of the SPD

Dr. Detlef Garbe
Director of the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial

Margret Hamm
Chairperson of the Bund der »Euthanasie«-Geschädigten und
Zwangssterilisierten e. V.

Christoph Heubner
Executiv Vice-President, International Auschwitz Committee

Dr. Norbert Kampe
Director, House of the Wannsee Conference

N. N.
Interest Group of those Persecuted by the Nazi Regime, German Antifascist Alliance

Sonja Lahnstein-Kandel
Executive Partner
STEP 21 - Youth Initiative for Tolerance and Responsibility

Dr. Rolf Surmann
Federal Association of the Victims of the NS Military Judicial System

Prof. Dr. Horst Möller
Former Director, Institute for Contemporary History

Dr. Jörg Skriebeleit
Director of the Flossenbürg Concentration Camp Memorial