The Board of Trustees represents the highest level of decision-making at the Federal Cultural Foundation. It sets the guidelines of the Foundation’s activities and decides on its funding priorities. Based on the recommendations of the Executive Board, the Board of Trustees appoints the Jury which selects the applications in General Project Funding.
Chair of the Board of Trustees
Representative of the Foreign Office
Michelle Müntefering
Minister of State at the Federal Foreign Office
Representative of the Federal Ministry of Finance
Bettina Hagedorn
Parliamentary State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of Finance
Representative of the Bundestag
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert
Former President of the German Bundestag
Burkhard Blienert
Delegate of the German Bundestag
Marco Wanderwitz
Member of the German Bundestag
Representatives of the federal states (KMK)
Rainer Robra
Head of the State Chancellery and State Minister for Culture in Saxony-Anhalt
Dr. Eva-Maria Stange
State Minister of Science and the Arts in Saxony
Municipal government representatives
Klaus Hebborn
Councillor for Education, Culture and Sports, German Association of Cities
Uwe Lübking
Councillor, German Association of Cities
Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Cultural Foundation of German States
Dr. Markus Söder
Minister President of the Federal State of Bavaria
Leading cultural and artistic figures
Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy
professor for Art History, Berlin
Wolfgang Tillmans
Artist, Berlin
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolf Lepenies
sociologist, Berlin