Board of Trustees

A top-notch board of trustees with representatives from science, business, politics, culture, and the media advises and supports our research center.

Chairman: Joachim Herrmann

Members:

  • Prof. Dr. Bekim Agai, Director of the Academy for Islam in Science and Society, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
  • Prof. Dr. Siegfried Balleis, FAU Honorary Professor, former Mayor of the City of Erlangen
  • Dr. Günther Beckstein, Former Prime Minister
  • Prof. Dr. Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
  • Markus Blume, Bavarian Minister of State for Science and the Arts
  • Prof. Dr. em. Michael Borgolte, Medieval historian, senior researcher at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Director of the Institute for Islamic Theology at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin until 2021
  • PD Dr. Achim Budde, Director of the Catholic Academy of Bavaria
  • Daniela F. Eisenstein, Director of the Jewish Museum Franconia
  • Matthias Fischbach, Former Member of Parliament
  • Karl Freller, I. Vice President of the Bavarian State Parliament
  • Dr. Johannes Friedrich, Former Regional Bishop D.
  • Nora Gomringer, Author and Director of the International House of Artists Villa Concordia
  • Dr. Detlef Görrig, Senior Church Councillor, Consultant for Mission and Theology in the Global Context of the Lutheran World Federation and its member churches
  • Petra Guttenberger, Member of the Bavarian State Parliament, Chairman of the Committee for Constitution, Law, Parliamentary Affairs and Integration
  • Pfarrer Udo Hahn, Director of the Protestant Academy Tutzing and Chairman of the Board of the Protestant Academies in Germany
  • Dr. Andreas Herrmann, Oberkirchenrat, Interreligious Dialogue Department of the EKD
  • Joachim Herrmann, Bavarian State Minister of the Interior, for Sport and Integration
  • Dr. Philipp Hildmann, Managing Director of the Bavarian Alliance for Tolerance – Protecting Democracy and Human Dignity, Head of the Project Centre against Right-Wing Extremism
  • Ingrid Hofmann, Managing Director of I. K. Hofmann GmbH
  • Dr. Thomas Jung, Mayor of the City of Fürth
  • Alexander Jungkunz, Chief Publicist at Nürnberger Nachrichten and member of the editorial board at Nürnberger Presse Publishing House
  • Kardinal Dr. Reinhard Marx, Archbishop of Munich and Freising
  • Marcus König, Mayor of the City of Nuremberg
  • Dr. Bertram Meier, Bishop of Augsburg
  • Stefan Müller, Former Member of Parliament
  • Prof. Dr. Ursula Münch, Director of the Academy for Civic Education
  • Ursula Ott, Editor-in-chief of the evangelical magazine Chrismon
  • Prof. Dr. Michael Piazolo, Member of the Bavarian State Parliament
  • Dr. Bettina Scherbaum, Ministerial Counsellor of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Cultural Affairs
  • Dr. Josef Schuster, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany and President of the State Association of Jewish Communities in Bavaria
  • Dr. Ulrich Seiser, Former Ministerial Councillor
  • Dr. Hans-Eckard Sommer, President of the Federal Office for Migration and Refugees
  • Dr. Ludwig Spaenle, Bavarian State Parliament, Commissioner of the Bavarian State Government for Jewish Life and against Anti-Semitism, for Remembrance Work and Historical Heritage
  • Diana Stachowitz, Former Member of Parliament
  • Gabriele Triebel, Member of the Bavarian State Parliament, Member of the Committee for Education and Culture, Spokesperson for Education, Religion and Remembrance Culture of the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen parliamentary group

Between May and mid-July 2021, members of the BaFID Board of Trustees took part in #WissenMachtStark, BaFID’s social media campaign for more cooperation, including Joachim Herrmann, Dr. Josef Schuster, Petra Guttenberger, Dr. Florian Janik, Udo Hahn, Prof. Dr. Michael Piazolo, Dr. Hans-Eckard Sommer, Prof. Dr. em. Michael Borgolte, Dr. Philipp Hildmann , Dr. Reinhard Marx, Alexander Jungkunz, Dr. Johannes Friedrich, Dr. Detlef Görrig, PD Dr. Achim Budde, Matthias Fischbach, Ingrid Hofmann, Stefan Müller, Dr. Bertram Meier, Dr. Günther Beckstein, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Balleis, Dr. Ulrich Seiser and Marcus König.