The Foundation’s Board of Trustees has an Advisory Board, which consists of personalities who have rendered outstanding services to the Foundation or to the stated objectives in its preamble.
Michael Beckord | Head of the Allianz Deutschland AG, Northeast Service |
Dr. Klaus von Dohnanyi | former Federal Minister of Education and Research (1972-1974) |
Dr. Margot Käßmann | Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Hanover |
Anita Lasker-Wallfisch | Cellist, surviving member of the Women’s Orchestra of the Auschwitz concentration camp |
Anna Lührmann, MdB | Member of the German Bundestag |
Armin Mueller-Stahl | Film actor, writer, painter |
Prof. Dr. Peter Raue | Lawyer at Hogan & Hartson Raue, arts expert and patron |
Irene Schulte Hillen | President of the German Foundation Musikleben |
Prof. Dr. Gesine Schwan | Coordinator of German-Polish intersocietal and cross-border cooperation |
Wolfgang Thierse, MdB | Vice president of the German Bundestag 1998-2005 |
Dr. Richard von Weizsäcker | former Federal President of Germany 1984-1994 |
Christian Wulff, MdL | Premier of Niedersachsen |

