Supervisory Board

The Supervisory Board advises the Directorate and Board of Scientific Directors on the scientific programme and its consequences for the proposed budget, and accordingly settles the budget. Besides the President of the Max Planck Society, the Supervisory Board comprises four representatives from politics and four others appointed by the Max Planck Society.

 

• Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann
  Chairman
  President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science
  
  
• Dr. Volkmar Dietz
  Representative of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research
  
  
• Dr. Uwe Franke
  President of the World Energy Council Germany e.V.
  
  
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang A. Herrmann
  President emeritus of the Technical University of Munich (TUM)
    
• Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Heuer
  Vice President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e.V.
  
  
• Dr. Sabine Jarothe
  Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, as representative of the Free State of Bavaria
  
  
• Woldemar Venohr
  Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
  
  
• Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wild
  Minister of State (retd.), Director-General (retd.) of the German Space Agency (DARA) as Honorary Trustee