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The Foundation's Advisory Board
Eingangstor der Gedenkstätte

The Foundation's Advisory Board

The Advisory Board advises the Board of Trustees and the Board of Directors on all matters relating to content and organisation. It is made up of representatives of memorial sites, institutions, groups and initiatives, academics and other qualified individuals who are involved with the Foundation's mission. The members are appointed for a period of three years by the Chairman of the Board of Trustees in agreement with the highest federal authority in charge of culture.

Members of the Advisory Board (as of July 2023)

Dieter Dombrowski

Chairman of the Advisory Board

Landrat a. D. (District Administrator)

Chairman of the Union der Opferverbände kommunistischer Gewaltherrschaft e.V. (Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny)
 

Prof. Dr. Hermann Wentker

Deputy Chair of the Advisory Board

Head of the Berlin branch of the Institute of Contemporary History

Marianne Birthler

Former Federal Commissioner 
for Stasi Records

 

Dr. Uta Bretschneider

Director of the Leipzig Forum of Contemporary History

 

Dr. Jens Gieseke

Leibnitz Centre for Contemporary History Potsdam

 

Dr. Anna Kaminsky

Director of the Federal Foundation for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

Prof. Dr. Axel Klausmeier

Director of the Berlin Wall Foundation

 

Ulrike Kretzschmar

Director of Exhibitions at the German Historical Museum

Birgit Neumann-Becker

Commissioner of the State of Saxony-Anhalt for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

Carla Ottmann

Deputy Chair of the Union der Opferverbände kommunistischer Gewaltherrschaft e.V. (Union of Victims' Associations of Communist Tyranny)

Ulrike Poppe

Former Commissioner of the State of Brandenburg for Dealing with the Consequences of the Communist Dictatorship

Mario Röllig

Former political prisoner

Tom Sello

Former Berlin Commissioner for the Reappraisal of the SED Dictatorship

Edda Schönherz

Former political prisoner, 
presenter and author
 

Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Veen

University of Trier

Head of the Berlin branch of the Institute of Contemporary History