executive board
“For effective disaster management, preparedness and response must be thought of together. This starts with a dedicated effort to combat the climate crisis and continues with the determined implementation of climate impact adaptation.”
Leon Eckert, Chair
Leon Eckert
Chair
“For effective disaster management, preparedness and response must be thought of together. This starts with a dedicated effort to combat the climate crisis and continues with the determined implementation of climate impact adaptation.”
German Parliament
Member of the German Parliament
Phone: +49 (0) 228 77 2000
E-Mail: leon.eckert@bundestag.de
Prof. Dr. Stefan Pickl
Vice Chairman
“For me, safety and security are inseparably linked. I would like to contribute to the DKKV being perceived as an international think tank for complex problems in the context of safety and security.
Universität der Bundeswehr München
Professor for Operations Research
Phone: +49 (0) 89 / 60 04 24 00
E-Mail: stefan.pickl@unibw.de
Martin Zeidler
Vice Chairman
“The ‘hard lot’ of prevention is that – when no damaging event has occurred – it is readily suppressed. That’s why it’s all the more important to make disaster preparedness a daily part of life and to raise society’s awareness of it.”
Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW)
Head of superstructure
Phone: +49 (0) 22899 / 45 01 62 8
E-Mail: martin.zeidler@thw.de
Dr. Monika Gähler
Board member
“Dealing with crisis information, such as warnings, must become a matter of course in Germany, involving the entire chain of stakeholders – from the early warning expert, for example, to local decision-makers and the potentially affected person.”
German Aerospace Center (DLR)
Head of the Center for Satellite Based Crisis Information (ZKI)
Phone:+49 8153 28-3309 / -3388
E-Mail: monika.gaehler@dlr.de
Dr. Wolfram Geier
Board member
“Without smart, effective, and sustainable preparedness, disaster situations will neither be reduced in impact nor managed effectively and efficiently.”
Federal Office of Civil Protection and Disaster Assistance (BBK)
Department President at BBK
Phone: +49 (0) 228 / 99 55 03 00 0
E-Mail: wolfram.geier@bbk.bund.de
Dr. Stephanie Hänsel
Board member
“Awareness of the importance of the precautionary approach must be further raised at all levels of society in order to strengthen the resilience of society, the economy and ecosystems and limit the negative effects of climate change..”
German´s National Metereological Service
Head of Planning and Coordination Division | Climate and Environment Division
Phone: +49 (0) 69 8062 3082
E-Mail: stephanie.haensel@dwd.de
Prof. Dr. Lothar Schrott
Board member
“The more preparedness measures are integrated into the rebuilding process, the more resilient we become.”
Department of Geography, University of Bonn
Professor of Geomorphology and Director of the Master’s Degree Program in Disaster Risk Reduction and Management (KaVoMa).
Phone.: +49 (0)228 73-5394
E-Mail: lothar.schrott@uni-bonn.de
Prof. Dr. Reimund Schwarze
Board member
“Precaution is the only and most important lesson to be learned from disasters and human failures like the one in the Ahr Valley in 2021. Germany must take on a role of advocacy here in the EU and European cooperation.”
The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ)
Head of the Research Group ‘Climate Change and Extreme Events’
Phone: +49 (0) 341 / 2 35 16 07
E-Mail: reimund.schwarze@ufz.de
Prof. Dr. Martin Voss
Board member
“The challenges are epochal, democracy needs an update through independent competence infrastructures, that can pool knowledge and advise the population, companies, politics and administration.”
Freie Universität Berlin
Head of the Disaster Research Center Berlin (KFS)
Phone: +49 (0) 30 / 83 87 26 13
E-Mail: martin.voss@fu-berlin.de
Marie-Theres Baranski
Board Member
“To establish sustainable disaster preparedness, we need to strengthen education and the next generation.”
United Nations University, University of Bonn
Student “Geography of Environmental Risks and Human Security”
E-Mail: post@marietheres-baranski.de