William G. Kerckhoff Foundation
The Board
Supervisory Management of the Foundation
The supervisory management of the William G. Kerckhoff Foundation is the Board of Trustees and the Foundation Board, the members of which work in an honorary capacity. Whereby the Board of Trustees decide over functionality and the financial assets of the foundation, it is the Foundation Board that manages the current business and represents the foundation externally.
Board of Trustees
As defined in the foundation’s constitution, the members of the Board of Trustees comprises of offspring of the Kerckhoff family, members of the Hessian Ministry for Finance and Economics, members of the Max Planck Institute and Hessian universities as well as of representatives from the economy and media.
Current they are:
1) | BOUFFIER, Volker Chairman of the Board of Trustees Chief Minister, retired |
2) | DAMM, Elmar Hessian Ministry for Finance, Wiesbaden |
3) | KASTILAN, Sonja Frankfurter Allgemeine Sunday Newspaper, Science Department |
4) | GERHARDT, Wolfgang Dr. Chairman of the Fr. Naumann Foundation for Freedom, Potsdam |
5) | KERCKHOFF YOUNG JR., William Ph.D., MRSC Medicines Research Centre GlaxoSmithKline, UK |
6) | KRESS, Klaus Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mayor of Bad Nauheim |
7) | LEDER, Matthias Dr. Managing Director of the IHK Giessen-Friedberg |
8) | LEONHARD, Joachim-Felix Prof. Dr. Chairman of the board of trustees of the Schader Foundation |
9) | MATTIG, Ulrike Dr. Hessian Ministry for Science and Art |
10) | McLAIN, Ann Los Angeles |
11) | REMMELE, Volker Bank Manager, retired |
12) | WALTER, Claudia Dr. Managing Director Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds |
13) | WILLEMS, Matthias Prof. Dr. President of the TH Mittelhessen University of Applied Sciences, Friedberg |
14) | WESTPHAL, Martin Prof. Dr. Executive Vice President & Chief Medical Officer Global Medical & Clinical Affairs Fresenius Kabi (D) GmbH, Bad Homburg |
Board of Directors
The foundation’s Board of Directors is comprised of two members appointed by the Board of Trustees, one member appointed by the Hessian Finance Minister as well as the Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute:
1) | REMMELE, Volker Chairman Bank Manager, retired, Bad Nauheim |
2) | OFFERMANNS, Stefan Prof. Dr. Deputy Chairman MPI Bad Nauheim |
3) | EHNERT, Lutz Dr. Internist, Bad Nauheim |
4) | KRAULICH, Patrik Deputy Assistant Under-Secretary Hessian Ministry for Finance |
Management
HEIL, Matthias Dr. MPI Bad Nauheim Phone +49 6032 705-1705 · E-mail |
Contact
Information

AdDress
Visit us on the campus
of the Max Planck Institute:
Parkstrasse 1 · GER–61231 Bad Nauheim
Phone
You can reach our managing director
Dr. Matthias Heil at:
+49 6032 705-1705