Advisory Board of the Eugen Biser Foundation
H. R. H. Duke Franz of Bavaria
– Honorary Chair and Patron of the Eugen Biser Foundation –
Professor Dr. Paul Kirchhof
– Chair –
Former Judge of the German Supreme Court; Director of the Institute of Finance and Tax Law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universitaet Heidelberg
Dr. Guenther Beckstein
– Vice-Chair –
Former Prime Minister of the Bavarian State; Member of the Bavarian State Parliament, Nuremberg
Professor Dr. Peter Antes
Managing Director and Professor of Religious Studies in the History of Religions Department at the Leibniz Universitaet Hannover; Former President of the International Association for the History of Religions and Honorary Life Member since 2005, Hanover
Professor Dr. Martin Balle
Editor and publisher of the Straubinger Tagblatt, Landshuter Zeitung newspaper group; Professor of Journalism at the Technical Media Department of the Fachhochschule Deggendorf, Straubing
Professor Dr. Reinhold Baumstark
Director General of the Bavarian State Collections of Paintings (Bayerische Staatsgemaeldesammlungen) (ret.), Munich
Dr. Tovia Ben-Chorin
Rabbi; Lecturer at the Abraham Geiger College at the Universitaet Potsdam, Berlin
Professor Dr. Wolfgang Bergsdorf
President of the Goerres Society (Goerres-Gesellschaft zur Pflege der Wissenschaft); President of the Universitaet Erfurt (ret.); Co-publisher of the Rheinischer Merkur newspaper, Bonn
Dr. Johannes Friedrich
Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria; Member of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany; Head of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany; Munich
Armin Geiss
Member of the Board of Directors of E.ON Ruhrgas Corp., Essen
Katrin Goering-Eckardt
Vice-president of the Bundestag (National Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany); Praeses of the 11th synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany; Member of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany; President of the 33rd German Evangelical Church Congress (Evangelischer Kirchentag) 2011
Alois Glueck
Former President of the Bavarian State Parliament; President of the Central Committee of German Catholics, Traunwalchen
Dr. Thomas Goppel
Former Bavarian State Minister of Science, Research and the Arts; Member of the Bavarian State Parliament, Eresing
Professor Dr. Peter Graf
Professor emeritus of Intercultural Education at the Institute for Migration and Intercultural Studies (IMIS) of the Universitaet Osnbrueck, Soechtenau
Dr. Friedemann Greiner
Director of the Evangelische Akademie Tutzing, Tutzing
Dr. Hermann Herder
Publisher and Senior Partner of Herder Verlag, Freiburg
Dr. Herbert Hoffmann
Ordinariatsdirektor (Chair) of the main department School/Academy of the General Vicariate of the Archdiocese of Trier
Dr. Jochen Holzer
Chair of the Board of Management of Bayernwerk AG (ret.); Honorary Member of the Senate of the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Munich
Hildegund Holzheid
President of the Bavarian Supreme Court and of the Munich Court of Appeal (ret.), Munich
Professor Dr. Walter Homolka
Rabbi; Executive Director of the Abraham Geiger College at the Universitaet Potsdam; Honorary professor of Philosophy at the Universitaet Potsdam
Professor Dr. Klaus-Peter Joerns
Professor emeritus in Practical Theology; Director of the Institute for the Sociology of Religion at the Theological Faculty of Humboldt Universitaet Berlin (ret.), Starnberg
Professor Dr. Renate Koecher
Director of the Institute for Demoscopy, Allensbach
Dr. Helmut Kohl
Former Federal Chancellor of Germany, Berlin
Hans-Ulrich Laar
Former Partner and Director of the Windel-Textilveredlungs-Gesellschaften Bielefeld-Windelsbleiche, Pullach
Helmut Linnenbrink
M. A. Business Administration; Member of the Board of Management of the C&A Mode (ret.); Chair of the Executive Committee of the Eugen Biser Foundation 2002 to 2005, Moenchengladbach
Maassen, Oliver
Head of Human Resources, Corporate Division, UniCredit Bank AG, Munich
Franz Graf von Meran
Managing Director Reuschel & Co. Privatbankiers (ret.), Munich
Dr. Thomas von Mitschke-Collande
Director Emeritus McKinsey Munich; Independent Business Consultant, Tutzing
Professor Dr. Johannes Neuhardt
Protonotary Apostolic; Domdechant (Dean of the Cathedral) and Diocesan Conservator in Salzburg; Founder and director of the Arch-diocesan Museum (ret.), Salzburg
Dr. Alfred Pfeiffer
Chair of the Board of Directors of VIAG Corp. (ret.); Honorary President of the Wirtschaftsbeirat der Union e. V. (Economic Advisory Council for the Bavarian branch of the Conservative Party), Munich
Professor Dr. Katharina Reiss
Professor emeritus of Romance Studies and Translation Science at the Julius-Maximilians-Universitaet Wuerzburg, Munich
Professor Dr. Annette Schavan
Federal Minister of Education and Research, Berlin
Dr. Albert Schmid
State Secretary (ret.); President of the Federal Agency for Migration and Refugees; Chair of the State Committee of Bavarian Catholics; Member of the Executive Committee of the 2nd Ecumenical Church Congress (Oekumenischer Kirchentag) 2010, Nuremberg
Dr. Florian Schuller
Director of the Katholische Akademie in Bayern; Chair of the Catholic Association for Adult Education in Bavaria (Katholische Landesarbeitsgemeinschaft fuer Erwachsenenbildung in Bayern e. V.), Munich
Professor Klaus Schultz
Staatsintendant (General Director) of the State Theatre "Staatstheater am Gaertnerplatz" (ret.), Munich
Dr. Klaus Seifert
Auditor and Tax Consultant; Former Managing Partner of Deloitte & Touche GmbH, Munich
Professor Dr. Abdullah Takim
Professor of Islamic Culture and Religion at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitaet Frankfurt; Co-organizer of the annual Theological Forum "Christianity-Islam" at the Academy of the Diocese Rottenburg-Stuttgart, Frankfurt
Professor Dr. h. c. mult. Horst Teltschik
Ministerialdirektor (Official), Head of the Office of the Federal Chancellor (ret.); Honorary Professor of Economic Sciences at the Technische Universitaet Muenchen (TUM), Munich
Dr. h. c. Erwin Teufel
Former Prime Minister of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg, Stuttgart
Buelent Tulay
Publisher; Founder of several businesses; Chair of the Council of Turks in Bavaria; Chair of the Council of the German-Turkish Business Association, Munich
Professor Dr. Felix Unger
Head of the Salzburg State Clinic for Cardiac Surgery in; President of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Salzburg
Dr. Friedrich Voelkl
Ministerialrat (Official) at the Bavarian Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (ret.), Munich
Professor Dr. Bernhard Vogel
Former Prime Minister of the State of Rheinland-Pfalz and of the State of Thueringen; Chair of the Board of Directors of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, Berlin
Dr. Hans-Jochen Vogel
Former Federal Minister of Justice, Munich
Dr. Theodor Waigel
Former Federal Minister of Finance, Seeg
Dr. Ulrich Wechsler
Former Member of the Board of Directors of Bertelsmann Corp.; Director of its publishing group (ret.), Munich
Dr. Otto Wiesheu
Professor Dr. Norbert Wieselhuber
Majority shareholder and CEO of Dr. Wieselhuber & Partner GmbH Managing Consulting Munich; Honorary professor of Management Consulting and Corporate Governance at the Hochschule Muenchen
