The National Urban Development Policy Board
The Board ensures that the National Urban Development Policy is integrated into societal and professional discussions and provides ideas for the themes and projects of the National Urban Development Policy. It comprises around 40 members, appointed by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety for a period of three years.
At its first meeting in Berlin on 7 May 2008, the Board wholeheartedly welcomed the fact that the National Urban Development Policy was being established as a new policy area and stressed that this policy was to create an open laboratory and incubator of innovation for urban development issues. The players involved in the National Urban Development Policy implement this mandate continuously by staging various events and conducting discussions with their partners.
The National Urban Development Policy Board comprises the following figures:
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, Federal Minister Dr. Barbara Hendricks (Chair)
- Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety, State Secretary Gunther Adler
Federal states:
Local government associations:
- German Association of Cities, Dr. Ulrich Maly (President)
- German Association of Towns and Municipalities, Christian Schramm (President)
- Association of German Counties, Reinhard Sager (President)
Representatives of associations:
- Federal Chamber of Architects, Barbara Ettinger-Brinckmann (President)
- Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce, Dr. August Ortmeyer
- Federal Chamber of Engineers, Hans-Ullrich Kammeyer (President)
Representatives of association:
- Association of German Architects, Heiner Farwick (President)
- Association of German Landscape Architects, Till Rehwaldt (President)
- Association of Contractors, Architects and Enineers (BDB), Hans Georg Wagner (President)
- Association for Urban, Sub-Regional and Regional Planning, Johannes Dragomir (Chair)
- Federal Association of German Housing and Property Development Companies, Axel Gedaschko (President)
- German Property Federation, Dr. Marc Weinstock
- German Teanants‘ Association, Dr. Franz-Georg Rips (President)
- German Construction Industry Federation, Dr Burkhard Siebert
- German Confederation of Skiled Crafts, Holger Schwannecke (Secretary-General)
- The German Retail Federation (HDE), Josef Sanktjohanser (President)
- German Olympic Sports Confederation, Dr Michael Vesper (Director-General)
Civil society:
- Federal Building of Baukultur, Reiner Nagel (Chairman)
- German Social Federation, Adolf Bauer (President)
- Evangelical Church in Germany, Bishop Ralf Meister
- Roman Catholic Church, Prelate Dr. Karl Jüsten
- BUND (Friends of the Earth Germany), Dr Brigitte Dahlbender
Individuals:
- Prof. Dr. Klaus Beckmann, Berlin
- Prof. Harald Herrmann, Bonn
- Regula Lüscher, Berlin
- Dr.(I) Elisabeth Merk, Munich
- Prof. Albert Speer, Frankfurt
- Prof. Julian Wékel, Darmstadt
- Prof. Dr. Paul Gans, Mannheim
- Prof. Dr. Franz Pesch, Stuttgart
- Prof. Peter Zlonicky, München
- Prof. Christoph Mäckler, Dortmund
- Prof. Sebastian Braun, Berlin
- Dr. Michael Fraas, Nürnberg
- Hans-Josef Vogel, Arnsberg
- Martin zur Nedden, Berlin
- Eckard Schindler, Hamburg
- Cornelia Richter, Eschborn