Directorate

• making decisions concerning the research center’s strategy, research policies and financial affairs,
• deciding on the principles for evaluating the success of scientific and technical work,
• the authority to issue directives to management and to the scientific technical council in important research policy and financial matters,
• granting the consent necessary for a number of the research center’s legal transactions.

Currently the following persons are members of the supervisory board:

• Ministerialdirigent Wilfried Kraus (Chairman), Ministry for Education and Research
• Ministerialdirigent Dr. Gustav Sauer (Deputy Chairman), Ministry for Science, Economic Affairs and Transport of the State of Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel
• Ministerialrat Dr. Herbert Zeisel, Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Bonn
• Peter Deutschland, DGB Nordmark District, Hamburg
• Dr. Rolf Greve, Ministry of Science and Research of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Hamburg
• Dr. Josef Glombik, Ministry of Science, Research and Culture of the Brandenburg, Potsdam
• Dr. Daniel Holstein, Director Leistritz Turbinenkomponenten Remscheid GmbH, Remscheid
• Deputy Director General Dr. Fritz Holzwarth, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, Bonn
• Prof. Dr. Winfried J. Huppmann, Eschen, Liechtenstein
• Deputy Director Dr. Axel Kollatschny, Ministry of Science and Culture of Lower Saxony, Hanover
• Wolfgang Bühr, Executive Vice-President Flensburger Schiffbau-Gesellschaft mbH & Co. KG, Flensburg
• Prof. Dr. Regine Willumeit, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht
• Dr. Heike Helmholz, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht
• Dr. Insa Meinke, Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht, Geesthacht
• Peter Wehner, Gesellschaft zur Förderung des Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthachts e. V. (Society for the Promotion of the Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Research Center), Norderstedt
• Wolfgang Drews, Dräger Safety AG& Co. KGA AG, Lübeck