Board of Trustees

Prof. em. Dr. Eibe Riedel
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, member of the UN Committee for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights

Prof. Dr. Theresia Degener
Professor, Protestant University for Applied Science RWL, Faculty of Law, Administration and Organization, Member of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Richard Fischels
Federal Ministry for Labour and Social Affairs, Head of subdivision Va – Prevention, Rehabilitation and Disability Politics -

Uta Gerlant
Adviser to the Board of Directors, Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future"

Dr. Rainer Huhle
Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Political scientist, representative of the Forum Human Rights, Member of the UN Committee to the International Convention for the Protection of all persons from enforced disappearances

Wolfgang Kanera
Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, Deputy Director General Social development, security,  human rights, governance

Markus Löning 
Federal Government Commissioner for Human Rights Policy and Humanitarian Aid at the Federal Foreign Office  

Monika Lüke

Dr. Michael Maier-Borst
Referee in the German Federal Government Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration

Christoph Strässer
Committee for Human Rights and Humanitarian Aid of the Federal Parliament

Claudia Tietz
Referee Sozialverband Deutschland e. V.
 
Barbara Unmüßig
Member of the Executive Board of the Heinrich-Böll-Foundation, Berlin

Erhard Weimann
Deputy Minister of Free State of Saxony

Dr. Almut Wittling-Vogel
Representative of the Federal Government for Matters Relating to Human Rights Director, Directorate IV C Human Rights, EU Law, International Law

Beate Ziegler
Co-ordinator of the Forum Human Rights, representative of the Forum Human Rights

Prof. Dr. Andreas Zimmermann
Professorship for Public Law, University of Potsdam, Faculty of Law

Andreas Zumach
Journalist, Geneva

Honorary Chairman in 2004
Werner Lottje (1946 - 2004)
Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2001 to 2003, was Head of the Human Rights department in the Social Service Agency of the Diakonisches Werk of the Evangelical Church in Germany