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