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:

The 2024 Board of Trustees meeting took place on June 28th. Present in Wachtberg were (from left to right): Prof. Vossiek, Dr. Johannes Nowak (Research Coordinator at Fraunhofer Headquarters), Andreas Brenner (WTD81, German Armed Forces), Prof. Peter Martini (Director of Fraunhofer FKIE), Maik Kammermann (German Ministry of Defense), Dr. Markus Zirkel (Director of Legal and Compliance at Fraunhofer Headquarters), Prof. Gerhard Elsbacher, Prof. Peter Knott (Director of Fraunhofer FHR), Gunnar Pappert, Prof. Andrea Kienle, Wilfried Wetjen, Prof. Christian Waldschmidt, Prof. Dirk Heberling (Director of Fraunhofer FHR).
Chair
Dipl.-Ing. Gunnar W. R. Pappert
DIEHL DEFENCE GmbH & Co. KG
Röthenbach a. d. Pegnitz
MinRat Maik Kammermann
Bundesministerium der Verteidigung (BMVg)
Bonn
Prof. Dr. Andrea Kienle
Ministerium für Kultur und Wissenschaft des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
Düsseldorf
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ilona Rolfes
Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Bochum
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Vossiek
Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Erlangen
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Christian Waldschmidt
Universität Ulm
Ulm
Wilfried Wetjen
OHB-System AG
Bremen