Committees

Shareholders' meeting

DZHW shareholders are the German government and all federal states. Pursuant to Art. 91 b of the Basic Law, DZHW was included in their joint funding at its inception in 2013. The Federal Government and each of the German states delegate representatives to the DZHW shareholders' meeting.

  • Chair: Bettina Klingbeil (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
Supervisory Board
  • Chair: Head of Section Peter Greisler (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
  • Deputy Chair: State Secretary Prof. Joachim Schachtner (Ministry for Science and Culture, Lower Saxony)
  • Dr. Frieder Dittmar (Ministry of Science, Research and Arts Baden-Württemberg)
  • Prof. Dr. jur. Volker Epping (President of Leibniz Universität Hannover)
  • Prof. Dr. Julia von Blumenthal (President of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
  • Prof. Dr. Jetta Frost (Vice President of University of Hamburg)
  • Dr. Michael Lehmann (Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Energie, Klimaschutz und Umwelt des Landes Sachsen-Anhalt)
Scientific Advisory Board
  • Prof. Dr. Silke Anger (University of Bamberg/Institute for Employment Research)
  • Prof. Dr. Eva Barlösius (Leibniz University Hannover/Leibniz Center for Science and Society)
  • Prof. Dr. Stefan Böschen (RWTH Aachen)
  • Prof. Dr. Marita Jacob (University of Cologne)
  • Prof. Dr. Marek Kwiek (AMU University of Poznan, Poland)
  • Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Lex (Graz University of Technology)
  • Prof. Dr. Ruth Müller (Technical University of Munich)
  • Prof. Dr. Simone Rödder (University of Hamburg)
  • Prof. Dr. Peter van den Besselaar (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  • Prof. Dr. Felix Weiss (Aarhus University, Denmark)
User Advisory Board

Representatives of Departments of Science and Education at Federal and Federal State level

  • Ministerialrätin Bettina Klingbeil (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
  • Ministerialrat Christian Herbst (Federal Ministry of Education and Research)
  • Chair: Dr. Stefan Niermann (Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture)
  • Cornelia Riedel (Thuringian Ministry of Economy, Science and the Digital Society)
  • Dr. Angela Walter (Department for Science and Research, City of Berlin)

Representatives of Secondary Data Analysts

  • Prof. Dr. Natascha Nisic (University of Mainz)
  • Dr. Florian Hertel (Europa-Universität Flensburg)

Representatives of Science Organisations

  • Dr. Rainer Lange (German Council of Science and Humanities, WR)
  • Dr. Jürgen Güdler (DFG)
  • Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf (Leibniz Association, WGL)
  • Prof. Dr. May-Britt Kallenrode (HRK, President University of Hildesheim)
  • Dr. Jens-Peter Gaul (German Rectors' Conference, HRK)
  • Nina Salden (DAAD, Head of division strategic planning)