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The Foundation for Safety in Skiing consists of two governing bodies—the Executive Board and the Board of Trustees—as well as three advisory boards, which serve in an advisory capacity.

Board of Directors

The Board of Directors of the Foundation for Safety in Skiing guides the Foundation’s strategic decisions. It defines the Foundation’s key areas of focus, decides on funding measures, and ensures that the Foundation’s goals—in particular, the promotion of safety and prevention in skiing—are effectively implemented. 

Dr. Volker Himmelseher (Chair)

Prof. Dr. Ralf Roth

Norbert Höflacher

Prof. Hanns Michael Hölz

Karin Orgeldinger

Hubert Schwarz

Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees is composed of prominent figures from the worlds of politics, business, sports, and journalism.

"The work of the SIS benefits everyone: the millions of enthusiastic recreational athletes as well as elite athletes. After all, safety, research, and sustainability are the foundation for enjoyment in recreational sports and for success in competitive sports."

Helmut Schreyer
, Chair of the SIS Board of Trustees

Current members of the Board of Trustees:

  • Helmut Schreyer (Chair of the SIS Board of Trustees)
  • Jörg Ammon (President of the Bavarian State Sports Association)
  • Peter Eisenlauer (Chairman of the Bavarian Mountain Rescue Service)
  • Dr. Dr. h. c. Paul-Otto FaĂźbender (Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the ARAG Insurance Group)
  • Gundolf Fleischer (President of the Baden Sports Federation in Freiburg)
  • Heinz Janalik (Honorary President of the Northern Baden Sports Federation)
  • Stefan Klett (President of the North Rhine-Westphalia State Sports Federation)
  • Dr. Rolf MĂĽller (Honorary President of the State Sports Federation of Hesse)
  • Silke Renk-Lange (President of the Saxony-Anhalt State Sports Federation)
  • Bernhard Schwank (Head of the “Sports and Volunteer Work” Department at the State Chancellery of North Rhine-Westphalia)
  • Dr. Franz Steinle (Honorary President of the German Ski Association)
  • Klaus Tappeser (District President; Honorary President of the WĂĽrttemberg State Sports Federation)

since 1975

  • Dr. h.c. Alfons Goppel
  • Dr. Katharina Focke
  • Dr. h.c. Max Streibl
  • Dr. h.c. Walter Hesselbach
  • Werner Hess
  • Dr. h.c. Willi Weyer
  • Dr. Hans Filbinger
  • Dr. Walter Rieger
  • Dr. h.c. Ludwig Poullain
  • Hans DĂĽrrmeier
  • Professor Dr. Werner Maihofer
  • Anton Jaumann
  • Dr. h.c. Rudolf Eberhard
  • Alfred Böhme
  • Dr. Hanns Martin Schleyer
  • Reinhold Vöth
  • Karl GĂĽnther von Hase
  • Professor Dr. h.c. Berthold Beitz
  • F.W. Baron von Sell
  • Dr. Hans Friderichs
  • Antje Huber
  • Fritz Wagnerberger
  • Dr. Gerhard Schork
  • Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Rolf Rodenstock
  • Lothar Späth
  • Gerhart Rudolf Baum
  • Dr. Heiner GeiĂźler
  • Dr. Friedrich Zimmermann
  • Dr. Franz Heubl
  • Franz Stadler
  • Professor Dr. h.c. Dieter Stolte
  • Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder
  • Dr. Hans Heinrich FaĂźbender
  • Gerd Bolls
  • Friedrich Nowottny
  • Professor Dr. August Angerer
  • Dr. h.c. Hans Hansen
  • Professor Dr. Klaus Töpfer
  • Gerold Tandler
  • Dr. Wolfgang Schäuble
  • Dr. Paul Wieandt
  • Hans Zehetmair
  • Dr. Rudolf Seiters
  • Dr. h.c. Josef Ertl
  • Dr. Bernhard Vogel
  • Hermann FĂĽnfgeld
  • Manfred Kanther
  • Dr. Angela Merkel
  • Fritz Pleitgen
  • Dr. Ludwig FaĂźbender
  • Alfred Sigl
  • Manfred von Richthofen
  • Professor Walther Tröger
  • Hans-Ludwig GrĂĽschow
  • Otto Schily
  • Professor Dr. h.c. Albert Scharf
  • Monika Hohlmeier
  • Professor Dr. Peter Kapustin
  • Dr. Annette Schavan
  • Prof. Dipl. Ing. Manfred Bandmann
  • Alois GlĂĽck
  • Dr. Thomas Gruber
  • Markus Schächter
  • Dr. Klaus Steinbach
  • Dieter Althaus
  • Dr. Eckart Fiedler
  • Dr. h.c. Rudolf Seiters
  • Professor Dr. Ralf Roth
  • Siegfried Schneider
  • GĂĽnther Lommer
  • Alfons Hörmann
  • Dr. Johannes Vöcking
  • Dr. Thomas Bach
  • Sigmar Gabriel
  • Helmut Rau
  • Hans-Wilhelm Gäb
  • Manfred Speck
  • Ulla Schmidt
  • Dr. Norbert Röttgen
  • Dr. Thomas de Maizière
  • Volker Bouffier
  • Erwin Lauterwasser
  • Gerhard Dambeck
  • Boris Rhein
  • Josef Fendt
  • Thomas Kreuzer
  • Klaus Jost
  • Norbert Heiland
  • Kim Roether
  • Otto Möslang
  • Thomas Lobensteiner
  • Professor Peter VoĂź
  • Walter Schneeloch

Advisory Boards

The advisory boards are consultative bodies of the German Ski Association (DSV) and are supported by the Foundation for Safety in Skiing. They pursue exclusively nonprofit objectives.

Advisory Board for the Environment and Sustainable Development of Ski Sports

Chair of the Advisory Board

  • Prof. Dr. Ralf Roth
    , Director of the Institute for Outdoor Sports and Environmental Research, German Sport University Cologne; Head of Sustainability Strategy at the German Ski Association (DSV
    ). Expertise: sports development, sports ecology, destination management, sustainability transformation

Members:

  • Peter Gaffert
    Mayor of the City of Wernigerode, former Director of the Hochharz & Kellerwald-Edersee
    National Park Expertise: Large-scale protected areas, municipal development
  • Prof. Hanns Michael Hölz
    Former Group Sustainability Officer at Deutsche Bank; Chairman of the Supervisory Board of DSV Marketing GmbH; President of the German Snowboard Association (SVD)
    Expertise: Sustainability management, communication
  • Dr. RĂĽdiger Recknagel
    , Former Head of Environmental Protection at the Audi Group / Spokesperson for the Audi Foundation for the Environment GmbH
    Expertise: Mobility, transportation, automotive engineering, process engineering
  • Prof. Dr. Ulrike Pröbstl-Haider
    , Director of the Institute for Landscape Development, Recreation, and Nature Conservation Planning, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU)
    . Expertise: Environmental and nature conservation planning, environmental education
  • Hansueli Rhyner
    Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow, and Landscape Research (WSL) – Institute for Snow and Avalanche
    Research Expertise: Snow, permafrost, ski slope preparation, and meteorology
  • Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Schmid
    Director of the Institute for Meteorology and Climate Research at the KIT Alpine Campus in Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the Technical University of Munich
    Expertise: Snow and climate research, atmospheric environmental research
  • Prof. Dr. Karl-Friedrich Ziegahn
    Head of the “Natural and Built Environment” Division at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT); President of the Society for Environmental Simulation e.V.
    Expertise: Energy, mobility, transportation, automotive engineering, environmental research
  • Dr. Marc Olefs
    , Head of the Climate Impacts Research Department at GeoSphere Austria (formerly ZAMG)
    ; Expertise: Climate change, radiation, snow
  • Antonia Asenstorfer
    Managing Director of Brauneck- und Wallbergbahnen, Head of Communications and Marketing at Alpen Plus, Board Member of VDS
    Expertise: Communications, marketing, business affairs, mountain railways
  • Henrik Volpert
    , Board Member of Oberstdorfer Bergbahn AG & Nebelhornbahn AG, Board Member of VDS
    . Expertise: Ski resort development, mountain railways, finance
  • Johanna Schumann
    , Sustainability Office, DSV/SIS
    ; Advisory Board Contact | nachhaltigkeit@stiftung.ski

    Former Members:

    Erwin Lauterwasser (Honorary Chair), Augustin Kröll, Sven Lange, Jens Rottmair

Advisory Board on
Medicine and Health 

 

Chair of the Advisory Board

  • Prof. Dr. Bernd Wolfarth
    , Full Professor of Sports Medicine and Head of the Department of Sports Medicine at Humboldt University of Berlin, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
    . Expertise: Internal Medicine, Sports Medicine, Nutritional Medicine, Preventive Medicine; Chief Olympic Physician of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB); Chief Association Physician of the German Ski Association (DSV)

Members:

  • Dr. Katharina Blume
    , Charité – Berlin
    Expertise: Sports Medicine, Team Physician for Biathlon
  • PD Dr. Peter Brucker
    , Atos MVZ Munich
    Expertise: Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, Sports Medicine; Lead Team Physician for Alpine Skiing, Ski Cross, and Freeskiing
  • PD Dr. Christoph Dehnert
    , Medbase Sports Medical Center, Zurich
    . Expertise: Internal Medicine, Sports Medicine, Anti-Doping Officer for the DSV
  • Helena Engel
    , Technical University of Munich
    (TU MĂĽnchen) Expertise: DSV Nutrition Counseling
  • Dr. Uwe Glatzmaier
    Barmherzige BrĂĽder
    Hospital Expertise: Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, Sports Medicine, Team Physician for Freestyle Skiing
  • Dr. Hubert Hörterer Jr.
    , ArthroPure Foot and Ankle
    Surgery Expertise: Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, Sports Medicine, Team Physician for Alpine Skiing, Ski Cross, and Freeski
  • Dr. Gernot Jendrusch
    , RuB, Faculty of Sports Science
    Expertise: Sports scientist, vision in sports
  • Dr. Manuel Köhne
    OCM Munich
    Expertise: Orthopedics, Trauma Surgery, Sports Medicine, Team Physician for Alpine Skiing, Ski Cross, and Freeski
  • Dr. Tom-Nicolas Kossak
    , Sport Psychology Munich GbR
    Expertise: Sports Psychologist, Licensed Sports Psychologist for Alpine Skiing
  • Dr. Florian Porzig
    , Porzig Köberle
    Practice Expertise: Internal Medicine, General Practice, Sports Medicine, Team Physician for Nordic Combined and Women’s Ski Jumping
  • Prof. Dr. Peter Schaff
    (formerly: TĂśV SĂśD Management Service GmbH
    ) Expertise: Orthopedics, ski safety
  • Prof. Dr. Johannes Scherr
    , Balgrist University Hospital – Zurich
    . Expertise: Internal Medicine, Sports Medicine, Nutritional Medicine
  • Annika Stolz
    Expertise: Director of Physical Therapy at PREhab
  • Dr. Jan C. WĂĽstenfeld
    Institute for Applied Training
    Science Expertise: Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Sports Medicine, Team Physician for the German Ski Association (DSV)

 

Advisory Board on
Law and Security

 

Chairman of the Advisory Board

  • Dr. Franz Steinle
    , Honorary President of the DSV; former President of the Stuttgart Higher Regional Court

Members:

  • Tobias Dallmayer
    Judge and Press Spokesperson at the Munich Higher Regional Court
  • Reiner Frey
    , former President of the TĂĽbingen Regional Court
  • Romy GroĂź-Angerer
    , Attorney
  • Dr. Felix Holzhäuser
    , attorney, partner at Lentze Stopper in Munich
  • Henriette Kircheis
    , attorney
  • Gregor Lentze
    , attorney
  • University Professor Dr. Martin Nolte
    , Professor at DSHS Cologne, Director of the Institute for Sports Law
  • Leo Plank
    Partner in the Restructuring Practice Group at the Munich office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Legal Counsel for the Munich Ski Association
  • Helga Wagner
    , Attorney at Law, Legal Counsel for the Association of German Cable Cars and T-Bar Lifts (VDS)

Honorary Member: 

  • Gerhard Dambeck, retired
    Director of the Kempten Local Court; former Legal Counsel for the DSV; former Chair of the DSV Advisory Board on Law and Safety

Former Members: 

Claus Huber-Wilhelm