GIZ’S OFFICIAL BODIES
Supervisory Board
Shareholder representatives
Dr Friedrich Kitschelt
Chairman
State Secretary in the German Federal
Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Devel-
opment (member since 13 March 2014, Chair-
man since 28 March 2014)
Hans-Jürgen Beerfeltz
(Former Chairman)
Former State Secretary (up to 28 March 2014)
Dr Dietmar Bartsch
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Ambassador Harald Braun
Former State Secretary (up to 13 March 2014)
Martin Gerster
Member of the German Federal Parliament
(up to 13 March 2014)
Anja Hajduk
Member of the German Federal Parliament
(since 13 March 2014)
Anne Ruth Herkes
Former State Secretary (up to 13 March 2014)
Priska Hinz
Hessian Minister of the Environment, Climate
Protection, Agriculture and Consumer Protec-
tion (up to 13 March 2014)
Volkmar Klein
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Dr h. c. Jürgen Koppelin
Former Member of the German Federal
Parliament (up to 1 February 2014)
Wolfram Schöhl
Bavarian State Ministry of Food,
Agriculture and Forestry
Dr Ludger Schuknecht
German Federal Ministry of Finance
Sonja Steffen
Member of the German Federal Parliament
(since 13 March 2014)
Stephan Steinlein
State Secretary in the German Federal
Foreign Office (since 13 March 2014)
Dagmar Wöhrl
Member of the German Federal Parliament
(since 4 June 2014)
Brigitte Zypries
Parliamentary State Secretary in the German
Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and
Energy (since 13 March 2014)
Employees’ representatives
Dr Stephan Krall
First Deputy Chair
GIZ, Eschborn
Daniela Spies
Second Deputy Chair
GIZ, Eschborn (since 1 August 2014)
Jan Peter Schemmel
Second Deputy Chair
GIZ, Mexico (up to 30 July 2014)
Armin Hofmann
GIZ, Laos
Winnie Kauderer
GIZ, Bad Honnef
Antonia Kühn
German Confederation of Trade Unions (DGB),
North Rhine-Westphalia
Birgit Ladwig
Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di),
National Executive, Berlin
Dr Joachim Langbein
GIZ, Bonn (up to 18 May 2015)
Dr Sabine Müller
GIZ, Eschborn (since 1 March 2015)
Peter Pfaumann
GIZ, Peru (up to 28 February 2015)
Thomas Schenk
Unified Service Sector Union (ver.di),
Frankfurt am Main
Ursula Schoch
GIZ, Bonn
Dr Julius Spatz
GIZ, Indonesia (since 19 May 2015)
Board of Trustees
Dr Claudia Lücking-Michel
Chair
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Dr Susanne Dröge
First Deputy Chair
German Institute for International and
Security Affairs
Dr Jürgen Ratzinger
Second Deputy Chair
Business Council Hesse/Rhineland-Palatinate
of the Carl Duisberg Society
Dr Elke Ahrens
Verein für Internationale Jugendarbeit
(Association for International Youth Work)
Renate Bähr
DSW (Deutsche Stiftung Weltbevölkerung)
Dr Bernd Bornhorst
VENRO (umbrella organisation of development
non-governmental organisations in Germany)
Dr Jens Peter Breitengroß
Hamburg Chamber of Commerce
Jürgen Deile
Learning and Helping Overseas (Arbeitskreis
Lernen und Helfen in Übersee e.V.)
Nicole Elping
German Federal Ministry for Family Affairs,
Senior Citizens, Women and Youth
Stefan Farivar
Ministry of Science and Economic Affairs
of Saxony-Anhalt
Daniel Gellner
Saxon State Ministry of the Environment
and Agriculture
Dr Kambiz Ghawami
World University Service
Cuno Güttler
Rheinischer Sparkassen- und Giroverband
(Rhine Savings Banks and Giro Association)
Rüdiger Heidebrecht
German Association for Water,
Wastewater and Waste (DWA)
Dr Ariane Hildebrandt
German Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development
Dr Simone Höckele-Häfner
State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg
Former State Secretary Ulla Ihnen
Carl Duisberg Society
Hans-Georg Kauert
Berlin Senate Administration for Economic
Affairs, Technology and Research
Dr Bärbel Kofler
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Jutta Kremer
Lower Saxony State Chancellery
Walter Leitermann
Association of German Cities
Niema Movassat
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Dr Kai-Andreas Otto
German Federal Ministry of the Interior
Franz Prebeck
Carl Duisberg Society
Colonel (GS) Dr Frank Richter
German Federal Ministry of Defence
Claudia Roth
Member of the German Federal Parliament
Mathias Samson
Hessian Ministry of Economics, Energy,
Transport and Regional Development
Eva Schmierer
German Federal Ministry of Justice
and Consumer Protection
Thimo V. Schmitt-Lord
Bayer Foundations
Dr Imme Scholz
German Development Institute
Christian Stertz
German Federal Ministry of
Education and Research
Barbara Susec
German Confederation of Trade
Unions (DGB)
Margret Uebber
German Federal Foreign Office
Friedrich Wacker
German Federal Ministry of Food
and Agriculture
Margitta Wülker-Mirbach
German Federal Ministry for
Economic Affairs and Energy
Uwe Zimmermann
German Association of Towns
and Municipalities
Private Sector Advisory Board
Dr Michael Rabbow
Chair
Boehringer Ingelheim
Renate Hornung-Draus
Confederation of German Employers’
Associations
Birgit Klesper
Deutsche Telekom AG
Dr Stefan Kreher
Volkswagen AG
Matthias Kühn
Carl Duisberg Society
Heiko Schwiderowski
Association of German Chambers
of Industry and Commerce
Jörg Thiele
German Association of Consulting Engineers
Jochen Voss
Carl Duisberg Society
Matthias Wachter
Federation of German Industries
Dr Peter Weiss
German Confederation of Skilled Crafts
As at 31 May 2015
GIZ Integrated Company Report 2014
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GIZ’s official bodies