VOLKSWAGENSTIFTUNG - Key Persons


Adelheid Wessler

Job Titles:
  • Head of Team Societal Transformations

Andrea Schneider

Job Titles:
  • Application Support IT

Andreas Bodemer

Job Titles:
  • Interest - Bearing Securities, Cash Management

Andreas Jezusek

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Services

André Peuker


Aneta Meyer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Anja Thöm

Job Titles:
  • Head of Legal Affairs and Policy Cooperation With Foundations and Associations

Anke Harwardt-Feye

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Conferences & Symposia

Annabella Hüfler-Fick

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Anorthe Wetzel

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Antje Tepperwien

Job Titles:
  • Head of Team Understanding Research

Barbara Neubauer

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Barbara Riegler

Job Titles:
  • Editor

Bernd Lorenz

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Services

Bettina Stark-Watzinger

Job Titles:
  • Vice Chairperson

Bettina Stühmeier

Job Titles:
  • Photo Editor, Graphic Design

Birgit Niemann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Birgit Rosengart-Kamburis

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Björn Thümler - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
Björn Thümler (Chairperson) Member of the Landtag (State Parliament) of Lower Saxony, formerly Minister of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony (Nov. 2017-2022) (Photo: MWK/brauers.com)

Blanka von Jutrzonka

Job Titles:
  • Assistant for Corporate Services

Bärbel Erdmann

Job Titles:
  • Auditing of Funds Allocated

Carmen Kaiser

Job Titles:
  • Development of Applications

Carolin Bensch


Catharina Altevogt

Job Titles:
  • Project Administration

Celina Adrion

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Conferences & Symposia

Claudia Bleckmann

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Secretary General

Claudia Kruse

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Human Resources

Cora Schaffert-Ziegenbalg

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Corinna Ben Mohamed Salah

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Daniela Grages

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Diana Schumacher

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Dieter Lehmann

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Management
Dieter Lehmann heads the Asset Management department.

Dirk Panitzki

Job Titles:
  • Network Administration

Dr. Christine Falk

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Claudia Eckert

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Professor Dr. Claudia Eckert Managing Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied and Integrated Security (AISEC); Chair of IT Security, Technical University of Munich

Dr. Cornelia Denz

Job Titles:
  • Professor
Professor Dr. Cornelia Denz President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt, the National Metrology Institute of Germany; Professor of Experimental Physics and Gender Research in Physics

Dr. Georg Schütte

Job Titles:
  • Secretary
  • Secretary General
Dr. Georg Schütte is Secretary General and manages the Foundation's office in Hanover.

Dr. Hans Michael Heinig

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Henrike Hartmann

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Secretary
  • Deputy Secretary General and Member of the Executive Management
Dr. Henrike Hartmann is Deputy Secretary General and heads the Foundation's Funding Department.

Dr. Jens Martin Gurr

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Peter Schrijver

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Sebastian Lehnhoff

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Thomas Carell

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dr. Vanessa Miriam Carlow

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Elke Hannack

Job Titles:
  • Vice President of the German Confederation of Trade Unions

Eva Maria Schaefer

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support

Frank Hammerich


Frank Häberli

Job Titles:
  • Head of Administration of the Foundation 's Premises

Franz Dettenwanger

Job Titles:
  • Head of Team Zukunft.Niedersachsen

Franziska Rönicke

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Gabriele Darge

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Georg Brünig

Job Titles:
  • Network Administration

Gesa Jones

Job Titles:
  • Editorial Coordinator

Hanna Denecke

Job Titles:
  • Head of Team Exploration

Harald Barre

Job Titles:
  • Program Director Zukunft.Niedersachsen

Hendrik Müller

Job Titles:
  • Auditing of Funds Allocated

Henning Otto

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Executive Management
Henning Otto heads the "Finance and Administration" department.

Ida Retter

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Inga Noffz

Job Titles:
  • Project Administration

Inéz-Maria Wellner

Job Titles:
  • Board Affairs Executive Assistant to the Secretary General

Isolde Christoffer

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Human Resources

Jeana Thilla

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Conferences & Symposia

Jennifer Richter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Jens Rehländer

Job Titles:
  • Head of Communication

Jessica Stettner


Johanna Brumberg

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Julie Milch

Job Titles:
  • Editor, Responsable for Zukunft.Niedersachsen

Katharina Kiewning

Job Titles:
  • Library

Katja Ebeling

Job Titles:
  • Head Conferences & Symposia

Katja Hawner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Secretary General

Kerstin Krüger

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Kristina Baae-Lorenz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Luisa Buchholz

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support

Malene Hummel

Job Titles:
  • Online Editor

Mareike Rüßmann

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Conferences & Symposia

Mareile Demuth - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Head of Human Resources

Maria-Luisa Förster

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Marjana Plazanic

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Martina Pörschke

Job Titles:
  • Real Estate

Marvin Bartsch

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Services

Matthias Nöllenburg

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Maximilian Rücker


Melanie Herzig

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Melanie Lehmann

Job Titles:
  • Accounting

Michael Blume

Job Titles:
  • Caretaker

Michael Hermanns

Job Titles:
  • Corporate Services

Michael Maaß

Job Titles:
  • Head of IT - Department

Michael Radegast


Michaela Finsel


Miriam Reinhart

Job Titles:
  • Project Administration

Nadine Reimer

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support

Natalia Grygier

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Nataliya Moor

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Nicole Richter

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Nicole Strube

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support of Real Estate Management

Nina Hahne

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Conferences & Symposia

Nora Kottmann

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Oliver Grewe

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Pavel Dutow

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Pierre Schwidlinski

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Regina Buch

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Robert Nuske

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Sandra Isik

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Selahattin Danisman

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Sibylle Mitscherling

Job Titles:
  • Head of Accounting and Controlling

Sibylle Rahm

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Conferences & Symposia

Silke Aumann

Job Titles:
  • Project Administration

Silvia Birck

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Simone Künnecke

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Support Zukunft.Niedersachsen

Stefanie Schulze

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Susanne Grabner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Susanne Klinge

Job Titles:
  • Project Administration

Sybille Laas

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Tanja Kornau


Tatjana Peters

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Theresa Greupner

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Tina Walsweer

Job Titles:
  • Editor, Responsable for Press Releases, Media Contacts

Tobias Schönwitz

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Head of the Funding Department

Ulrike Bischler

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Uta Saß

Job Titles:
  • Head of Evaluation, Internal Audit, Auditing of Funds Allocated

Ute Steinert

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Vera Szöllösi-Brenig

Job Titles:
  • Program Director