The Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees supports our research work and advises the Institute Director and the Executive Board of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft. The members of our Board of Trustees from industry, science and ministries are:

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The 2022 Board of Trustees meeting took place on June 24 as a hybrid event. On site in Wachtberg-Villip were: Prof. Dr. Dirk Heberling, Prof. Dr. Peter Knott, Prof. Dr. Ilona Rolfes, Dr. Johannes Landes (Director FuE Contracts, Licenses and IPR, Fraunhofer-Zentrale), Hans Hommel, Roland Neppig (WTD81, German Armed Forces), Dr. Johannes Nowak (Research Coordinator Fraunhofer-Zentrale, Dr. Dirk Tielbürger and Wilfried Wetjen.

Chairman
Dipl.-Ing. Gunnar W. R. Pappert
DIEHL DEFENCE GmbH & Co. KG
Röthenbach a. d. Pegnitz

Dr. Gerhard Elsbacher
MBDA Deutschland GmbH
Schrobenhausen

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ilona Rolfes
Ruhr-University Bochum
Bochum

MinRat Dr. Dirk Tielbürger
Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg)
Bonn  

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Erlangen

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Waldschmidt
Ulm University
Ulm

Wilfried Wetjen
OHB-System AG
Bremen