Members
The General Assembly is the supreme governing body of the foundation. It consults and decides on the foundation’s work guidelines; it also receives the business and cash reports and is responsible for approving them; it supports the Board of Directors and elects board members.
The General Assembly convenes at least once a year, usually in the second half of the year. They constitute a quorum if at least half of the members are present. The majority of the members present then decide on resolutions. Decisions are recorded in the minutes.
The total number of association members is limited to 55. Membership shall terminate three years after commencing the activity unless extended for a further three years owing to a decision taken by the General Assembly.
General Assembly
Dr. Patrick Adenauer
Entrepreneur
Prof. Dr. Erik Bertram
Senior Director, Chief Operating Officer, BTP Design, SAP SE
Professor for Digital Business Management at the Fresenius Hochschule Heidelberg
Dr. Christoph Brand
Treasurer of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Heike Brehmer MP
Deputy Chairwoman of the Executive Board of Kommunalpolitische Vereinigung der CDU/CSU Deutschlands (KPV)
Ralph Brinkhaus MP
Former Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the German Bundestag
Further information in the biogram
Elmar Brok
former MEP
Vice President of the Centrist Democrat International
Further information in the biogram
Daniel Caspary MEP
Chairman of the CDU/CSU group at the European Parliament
Further information in the biogram
Emine Demirbüken-Wegner
Secretary of State (retired)
District Mayor of Berlin-Reinickendorf
Karina Dörk
Landrätin im Landkreis Uckermark
Burkard Dregger
Member of Berlin Parliament
Chairman of the CDU parliamentary group at the Berlin Parliament (retired)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lars Feld
Holder of the Chair for Economic Policy and Constitutional Economics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Director of the Walter Eucken Institute
Michael Gahler MEP
Board member of the CDU/CSU group at the European Parliament
Tanja Gönner
General Directorate of the Federation of German Industries (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie e. V., BDI)
Hermann Gröhe MP
Federal Minister (retired)
Deputy Chairman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the German Bundestag
Deputy Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Further information in the biogram
Daniel Günther
Minister-President of Schleswig-Holstein
Prof. Dr. Stefan W. Hell
Director at the Max-Planck-Institut for Biophysical Chemistry Göttingen
Franziska Hoppermann MP
Chairwoman of the Women's Union of the CDU in Hamburg
Eckart von Klaeden
Secretary of State (retired)
Head of the External Affairs department at Mercedes-Benz Group AG
Freya Klier
writer and film director
Further information in the biogram
Julia Klöckner MP
Federal Minister for Food and Agriculture (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Prof. Dr. Marianne Kneuer
Professor of Comparative Politics at the Technische Universität Dresden
Prof. Roland Koch
Minister-President (retired)
Chairman of the Ludwig-Erhard-Stiftung e. V.
Further information in the biogram
Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer
Federal Minister of Defence (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Michael Kretschmer
Minister-President of Saxony
Further information in the biogram
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert
Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
President of the German Bundestag (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Armin Laschet MP
Minister-President (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Christine Lieberknecht
Minister-President (retired)
Further information in the biogram
David James McAllister MEP
Minister-President (retired)
Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign Affairs
Further information in the biogram
Dr. Angela Merkel
Federal Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Herta Müller
Writer
Hildegard Müller
Secretary of State (retired)
President of the German Association of the Automotive Industry (Verband der Automobilindustrie, VDA)
Prof. Dr. Adolf Muschg
Writer
Hildigund Neubert
Secretary of State (retired)
Deputy Chairwoman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Prof. Dr. Beate Neuss
Deputy Chairwoman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Prof. Dr. Angelika Nußberger
Judge at the Constitutional Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina
Director of the Institute for Eastern European Law and Comparative Law at the University of Cologne
Ronald Pofalla
Federal Minister (retired)
Chief Operating Officer Gröner Group GmbH
Further information in the biogram
Dr. Hans-Gert Pöttering
President of the European Parliament (retired)
Representative for European Affairs of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Further information in the biogram
Dr. Jan Redmann
Head of the CDU in Brandenburg
Chairman of the CDU group at the Parliament of Brandenburg
Katherina Reiche
CEO of Westenergie AG
Herbert Reul
Minister for Internal Affairs of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Dr. Norbert Röttgen MP
Federal Minister (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Nadine Schön MP
Deputy Chairwoman of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group at the German Bundestag
Dr. Josef Schuster
President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany (Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, ZdJ)
Jens Spahn MP
Federal Minister of Health (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Ashok-Alexander Sridharan
former Mayor of Bonn
Lawyer
Dr. Peter Tauber
Parliamentary Secretary of State (retired)
Further information in the biogram
Düzen Tekkal
Journalist and writer
Dr. Johannes von Thadden
Chairman of Airbus Poland
Marlehn Thieme
President of Welthungerhilfe e. V.
Chairwoman of the ZDF Television Board
Prof. Sebastian Turner
Media entrepreneur
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Vogel
Minister-President (retired)
Honorary Chairman of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung e. V.
Further information in the biogram
Dr. Nathalie von Siemens
Member of the Supervisory Board of Siemens AG and Siemens Healthcare GmbH
Klaus Welle
Former Secretary General of the European Parliament
Eva Welskop-Deffaa
President of the German Caritas Association
Paul Ziemiak MP
Secretary General of the CDU in North Rhine-Westphalia
Further information in the biogram
Dr. Tamara Zieschang
Minister of the Interior and Sport of Saxony-Anhalt
As of: June 2023
