| Martin Klumpp Martin Klumpp studied protestant theology in Tübingen, Germany, and Zurich, Switzerland, and carries additional qualifications in psychology for marriage guidance, as well as family and life issues. During his rectorate at the Hospitalkirche Stuttgart, he also established and managed the Hospitalhof training center. As the city deacon in Stuttgart he was last the prelate of the Evangelische Landeskirche for the Stuttgart parish as well as the canon at the Stuttgart Stiftskirche. Klumpp retired in the fall of 2005. While being named as co-founder and long-time volunteer at Hospiz Stuttgart, Klumpp’s work focused on discussion groups for people in mourning, and Klumpp was also chairman of the development association, as well as chairman of the Verein Evangelische Ausbildungsstätten für Sozialpädagogik colleges in Herbrechtingen, Reutlingen, Schwäbisch Hall and Stuttgart. In addition, Klumpp served as deputy chairman of the Evangelische Seminarstiftung with protestant theological seminars in Blaubeuren and Maulbronn and he was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Tübinger Stift Foundation. |
| Dr. Manfred Prechtl Dr. Manfred Prechtl studied law and economics at Tübingen university, where he obtained his Ph.D. in 1955. In 1957, he became an attorney-at-law specializing in business and corporate law. In 1967, Prechtl became a member of the board of the Württembergische Bank, and in 1977, he was a leading player in the merger of the Badische Bank, the Handelsbank Heilbronn, and the Württembergische Bank which then became the BW Bank: Prechtl acted as the board spokesperson of the new BW Bank. In 1994, Prechtl served as a member of the supervisory board of the BW Bank. He has also been a member of several supervisory boards and advisory positions, including chairman of the board of the Bundesverband Deutscher Banken, the Dutch consul general for Baden-Württemberg, board member of the Vereinigung der Landesbibliothek Stuttgart, Senator h.c. of Stuttgart University. Awards: "Großes Bundesverdienstkreuz der Bundesrepublik Deutschland" and "Verdienstmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg" |
| Professor Dr. Wolfgang Sandner Wolfgang Sandner studied physics and received his PhD at Freiburg University in 1979, where he also received habilitation six years later. From 1986 he taught as full professor at Würzburg and Freiburg University as well as in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA from where he was called to a position in Germany. He now is Director at the Max Born Institute (MBI) in Berlin Adlershof - an institute of the Leibniz Association - as well as professor at the Technical University Berlin. Since 2009 he also is Vice Chairman in the Board of Representatives of Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. His current research covers the basic research on light-matter interaction at ultra-high intensities, this includes the development and application of short-pulse lasers of highest peak and average power for laser particle acceleration, the research on and with laser-based UV- and X-ray sources as well as special lasers for special applications (Free Electron Lasers). He is the author of more than 200 refereed publications in international journals. After he became director of the MBI Professor Sandner was called into many national and international organisations of science and of research policy particularly in the EU, as an advisor to the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research and as member of scientific advisory boards of many research institutes. Since 2003 he is co-ordinator of the European Union Research Infrastructure Network LASERLAB EUROPE consisting of 26 of the most important laser research institutes from 16 European countries. Wolfgang Sandner is "Fellow of the American Physical Society" (1994) and President-elect (since March 2009) of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft DPG (German Physical Society). |
| Dr. Rainer Wilhelm Dr. Rainer Wilhelm studied economics at Stuttgart and Munich Universities. He was most recently the vice president of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce Region Stuttgart and of the consortium of the Chambers of Industry and Commerce in Baden-Württemberg, as well as the deputy chairman of the Board of Trustees of the German Chamber of Commerce in Austria. Wilhelm retired in 1996, and afterwards, served as a member or chairman of numerous supervisory boards and advisory committees, as well as volunteering in cultural institutions in Baden-Württemberg and beyond. Awards, among others: "Verdienstmedaille des Landes Baden-Württemberg" and "Großes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik Österreich" |
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