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Last Updated: March 3, 2023
Published: October 19, 2021

Board of Trustees

President

  • Benjamin Strasser, Member of the German Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice

Vice Presidents

  • Ramona Pisal, President of the Potsdam Regional Court, German Women Lawyers Association
  • Prof. Dr. Stephan Wernicke,  Chief Counsel and Head of Legal Affairs, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), Berlin

Further members of the Board of Trustees

  • Prof. Dr. Frank Arloth, Ministerial Director, Head of Office Bavarian State Ministry of Justice
  • Richard Bock, Justizrat, former notary, chief representative for international affairs at the Federal Chamber of Notaries
  • Dr. Franziska Brantner, Member of the German Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action
  • Professor Dr. Helge Braun, Member of the German Bundestag, President of the German Bundestag Budget Committee
  • Dr. Daniela Brückner, Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice for Nordrhein-Westfalen
  • Dr. Birgit Grundmann, lawyer, former State Secretary
  • Edith Kindermann, lawyer and notary, President of the German Bar Association e.V.
  • Christiane Knoop, Chairman of the Association of German Judges for Administrative Law
  • Dr. Christiane Leiwesmeyer, Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice for Brandenburg
  • Joachim Lüblinghoff, presiding judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court, co-chairman of the German Association of Judges
  • Prof. Dr. Katharina Lugani, Chair of German European and International Private and Procedural Law, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf
  • Eva Maria Meyer, State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Finance
  • Dr. Heike Neuhaus, Ministerial Director, Federal Ministry of Justice, Berlin
  • Prof. Dr. Ralf Poscher, Director of Max-Planck-Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law, Department of Public Law
  • Dr. Angela Reitmaier, Member of the Board, Transparency International Deutschland e. V.
  • Dr. Christian Rupp, President of the German Association of Notaries e.V.
  • Benjamin Strasser, Member of the German Bundestag, Parliamentary State Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice
  • Oliver J. Süme, lawyer, Chairman, eco – German Internet Business Federation e.V.
  • Tania von Uslar-Gleichen, Ministerial Director, Federal Foreign Office
  • Dr. Ulrich Wessels, lawyer, President of the German Federal Bar
  • Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker, President of the German Bundestag Legal Committee

Advisory Council for “Law and Economic Transformation”

At its meeting on 16 November 2020, the IRZ Board of Trustees resolved to appoint an Advisory Council for “Law and Economic Transformation” in accordance with § 32 sentence 1 of the Statues.  The aim of the Advisory Council will be to strengthen the role of IRZ in the long term to a social market economy in the current transformation processes, and to attract new members from associations and business to IRZ.

The Advisory Council, which also includes external expertise, will advise IRZ on its role in current transformation processes in foreign countries, and focus on supporting reform projects for a social market economy and all the economic aspects relating to a strengthening of legal centres, in particular with respect to project selection and design. It will submit proposals to realise and implement the promotion of the social market economy.

Members of the Advisory Council

  • Dr Birgit Grundmann (spokeswoman), lawyer, Law Office Berburg, Berlin
  • Justizrat Richard Bock, former notary, chief representative for international affairs at the Federal Chamber of Notaries, Berlin
  • Prof Dr Stephan Wernicke, Chief Counsel and Head of Legal Affairs, German Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), Berlin
  • Thomas Fischer, Head of Department Policy Affairs and Social Policy, German Trade Union Confederation, Berlin
  • Yildiz Götze, Head of Unit, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Berlin
  • Götz Kaßmann, Head of Legal Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer, Schüco International KG, Bielefeld
  • Niels Lau, Head of Department Legal, Competition and Consumer Policy, Federation of German Industries e.V., Berlin
  • Dr Oliver Vossius, notary, Vossius & Engel, München
  • Dr Jenny Dvorak, Senior Legal Counsel, Bosch limited, Stuttgart
  • Stefan Hienzsch, Assistant General Counsel, BMW Group, München

The Board

  • Dr. Frauke Bachler, General Director
  • Dr. Stefan Hülshörster, Director

Members of IRZ

  • Bayer AG
  • Professor Dr. Wilfried Bernhardt, former State Secretary
  • Annette Böringer, Federal Public Prosecutor, Federal Court of Justice
  • Professor Dr. Michael Bohlander, Durham Law School, United Kingdom
  • Clara Bünger, Member of the German Bundestag, DIE LINKE.
  • Bund Deutscher Rechtspfleger e.V.
  • Bund Deutscher Verwaltungsrichter und Verwaltungsrichterinnen (Association of German Judges for Administrative Law)
  • Bundesnotarkammer (Federal Chamber of Notaries)
  • Bundesrechtsanwaltskammer (German Federal Bar)
  • Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e.V. (Federation of German Industries)
  • Bundesverband deutscher Banken e.V. (Association of German Banks)
  • Deutscher Anwaltverein e.V. (German Bar Association)
  • Deutsche Industrie- und Handelskammer (German Chamber of Commerce and Industry)
  • Deutsche Institution für Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit e.V. DIS (German Institution of Arbitration)
  • Deutscher Juristinnenbund e.V. (German Women Lawyers Association)
  • Deutscher Notarverein e.V. (German Notaries' Association)
  • Deutscher Richterbund e.V. (German Association of Judges)
  • Lujo Fadé, former Ministerialdirigent (Assistant Secretary)
  • Rainer Funke, lawyer, former Parliamentary State Secretary
  • Gesamtverband der Deutschen Versicherungswirtschaft e.V. GDV (German Insurance Association)
  • Dr. Birgit Grundmann, lawyer, former State Secretary
  • Dr. Christian Johnson, Head of Division Federal Office of Justice
  • Veronika Keller-Engels, President, Federal Office of Justice
  • Dr. Christoph Konrad, Member oft he Board, Verein zur Förderung der Wettbewerbswirtschaft e.V.
  • Dr. Günter Krings, Member of the German Bundestag, CDU/CSU
  • Helge Limburg, Member of the German Bundestag, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen
  • Markenverband e.V. (German Brands Association)
  • Dirk Mirow, Ministerialdirigent (Assistant Secretary), Federal Ministry of Justice
  • Dr. Anke Morsch, President of the Finance Court of Saarland
  • Notarkammer Koblenz (Chamber of Notaries of Koblenz)
  • Committee on Eastern European Economic Relations e.V.
  • Dr. Irene Pakuscher, Undersecretary, Federal Ministry of Justice
  • Patentanwaltskammer München (Chamber of Patent Attorneys of Munich)
  • Marianne Schieder, Member of the German Bundestag, SPD
  • Dr. Wolfgang Schmitt-Wellbrock, Ministerialdirektor a.D. (former Director-General)
  • Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Friedrich-Christian Schroeder, University of Regensburg
  • Alexander Straßmeir, President of Berlin’s State Office for Refugee Affairs
  • Stephan Thomae, Member of the German Bundestag, FDP
  • Professor Dr. Stefan Zimmermann, former notary, Honorary President of German Notaries' Association e.V.
  • Brigitte Zypries, former Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy

IRZ Statutes