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NKR Members

The Federal President, acting on a proposal by the Federal Government, appoints the members of the NKR for five years. Re-appointment is permitted. The NKR works according to the rapporteur principle, each member having responsibility for one or more areas of legislation.

Lutz Goebel (NKR Chairman)
Managing partner of Henkelhausen GmbH & Co. KG, former president of the Association of Family Entrepreneurs

Prof. Dr. Sabine Kuhlmann (Vice-Chairman)
Chair of Political Science, Administration and Organisation at the University of Potsdam

Garrelt Duin
General Manager at the Chamber of Crafts in Cologne, Minister of State a.D.

Gudrun Grieser
Retired lady mayor

Dr. jur. Reinhard Goehner
Former General Manager of the Confederation of German Employers' Associations (BDA), former State Secretary

Ulla Ihnen
Member of council of the City of Hannover, State Secretary a.D.

Kerstin Mueller
Former Minister of State, former MP and Director of the Heinrich Böll Foundation, Israel, Senior Associate Fellow of the DGAP

Malte Spitz
Co-founder and General Secretary of the NGO Society for Freedom Rights, freelance data protection officer

Dorothea Störr-Ritter
District Administrator a.D.

Andrea Wicklein
Member of the German Bundestag from 2002 until 2017