Members of the Board of Directors
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert
Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
President of the German Bundestag (retired)
Prof. Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott
Deputy Chairwoman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Hermann Gröhe MP
Deputy Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e.V.
Federal Minister (retired)
Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group
Dr. Tamara Zieschang
Deputy Chairwoman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Bernhard Vogel
Honorary Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Minister-President (retired)
Christoph Brand
Treasurer of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Michael Thielen
Secretary General of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Michael Thielen, born in 1959 in Prüm/Eifel has been Secretary General of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung since 2008. Between 2006 and 2008 he was Secretary of State at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. From 1987 he was employed in the office of the Bundestag member Jürgen Rüttgers. He then worked as a Consultant for the CDU/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag. After Rüttgers was appointed Federal Minister for Education, Science, Research and Technology by Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl, from 1995 Thielen took over as Head of the Minister’s Office and the Executive Staff in the Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology. From 1999 to 2005 he was Head of Division at the CDU party headquarters.
Dieter Althaus
Minister-President (retired)
Vice President for Governmental Affairs MAGNA Europe
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Dr. Felor Badenberg
Senator for Justice and Consumer Protection in Berlin
Thorsten Frei MP
Chief Whip of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the German Bundestag
Tanja Gönner
General Directorate of the Federation
German Industries (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V., BDI)
Prof. Dr. Hans Walter Hütter
Chair of the Executive Board of Stiftung Haus der Geschichte Nordrhein-Westfalen
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Federal Minister of Defence (retired)
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Armin Laschet MP
Minister-President (retired)
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Dr. Carsten Linnemann MP
Secretary General of the CDU
David McAllister MdEP
Minister-President (retired)
Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs
Vice President of the European People's Party
Friedrich Merz MP
Chairman of the CDU
Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the German Bundestag
Hildegard Müller
Secretary of State (retired)
President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie, VDA)
Dr. Jan Redmann
Head of the CDU in Brandenburg Chairman of the CDU group at the Parliament of Brandenburg
Prof. Dr. Andreas Rödder
Holder of the Chair for Modern
Contemporary History at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Sternberg
President of the foundation Kunststiftung NRW
Eva Maria Welskop-Deffaa
President of the German Caritas Association
Permanent guests
Dr. Philipp Birkenmaier
Federal Managing Director of the CDU
Volker Kauder
Chairman of the BundeskanzlerHelmut-Kohl-Stiftung Board of Trustees
Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering
Representative for European Affairs of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
President of the European Parliament (retired)
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Professor Dr Jürgen Rüttgers
Minister-President (retired)
Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Stiftung Bundeskanzler-Adenauer-Haus
Dr Wolfgang Schüssel
Federal Chancellor of the Republic of Austria (retired)
Chair of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V. Board of Trustees
Dr. Sabine Sütterlin-Waack
Minister of the Interior, Municipal Affairs, Housing and Sports in Schleswig-Holstein
Chairwoman of the Hermann Ehlers Stiftung e. V.
Lukas Eyermann
Speaker of the Youth Advisory Board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Lili Pöschl
Speaker of the Youth Advisory Board of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
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As of: June, 2024
