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.

• Bärbel Bas
  Member of the German Bundestag, deputy chairwoman of the SPD parliamentary group for the areas of health, education and research, petitions
• Dr. Oliver Blume
  Member of the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG
  Chief Executive Officer of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG
• Dr. Roland Busch
  President and Chief Executive Officer of Siemens AG
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Heinz Jörg Fuhrmann
  Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Board, Salzgitter AG
  Chairman of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Kerstin Grosse
  Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board, KOMSA Kommunikation Sachsen AG
• Dr. Sabine Herlitschka
  CEO and CTO, Infineon Technologies Austria AG
• Sabine Herold
  Managing Partner, DELO Industrie Klebstoffe GmbH & Co. KGaA
• Reiner Hoffmann
  President of the German Trade Union Confederation, DGB
• Pär Malmhagen
  Chief Operating Officer, ABC Technologies
• Natalie Mekelburger
  Chairwoman of the Management, Coroplast Fritz Müller GmbH & Co. KG
• Bernard Meyer
  Chief Executive Officer, MEYER WERFT GmbH & Co. KG
• Tankred Schipanski
  Member of the German Bundestag, CDU/CSU parliamentary group
• Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. Birgit Spanner-Ulmer
  Director of Production and Technology, Bayerischer Rundfunk
  Deputy chair of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
• Dr.-Ing. Karl Tragl
  Former spokesman for the board of the Diehl Group
• Prof. Dr. Wiltrud Treffenfeldt
  Former CTO Dow Europe, Middle East, Africa & India
• Grazia Vittadini
  Airbus Chief Technology Officer & Member of the Airbus Executive Committee
• Dr.-Ing. Anna-Katharina Wittenstein
  Member of the Management Board of WITTENSTEIN SE
• Oliver Zipse
  Chairman of the Board of Management, BMW AG
  Deputy chair of the Senate of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

• MinDirig Dr. Ole Janssen
  German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi)
• Parliamentary secretary Thomas Rachel
  German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
• MinDirig Ralf Schnurr
  German Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg)

• Staatssekretärin Dr. Sabine Johannsen
  Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture
• MinDirig Günther Leßnerkraus
  Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Economics, Labor and Housing
• Dr. Volker Saß
  Head of "Science Planning and Research Funding" at the Bremen Senator for Science and Ports

• 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

• Staatssekretär Carsten Feller
  Thuringian Ministry for Economy, Science and Digital Society
• Prof. Dr.-Ing. Anke Kaysser-Pyzalla
  Chairwoman of the Executive Board, German Aerospace Center e. V. (DLR)
• Dr. Susanne Reichrath
  Commissioner of the Prime Minister for Universities, Science and Technology State Chancellery of Saarland
• Stefan Rughöft
  Deputy chair of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft general works council, 
  Fraunhofer Institute for Open Communication Systems FOKUS
• Prof. Dr. Martin Stratmann
  President of the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science e. V.
• Dipl.-Ing. Dominik Toussaint
  Chair of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft general works council,
  Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI
• Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner
  Chairwoman, German Council of Science
• MinDirig Dr. Manfred Wolter
  Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy