Legal historian Lück elected Chair of the Board of Trustees

Advisory body of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology convenes for the first time

On Tuesday, 14 November 2017 the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology held its inaugural meeting, which was led by Secretary General of the MPS, Rüdiger Willems. Prof. Dr. Heiner Lück, a legal historian at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, was unanimously elected Chair of the board. Satenik Roth, Deputy Chair of the Federal Immigration and Integration Council (Bundeszuwanderungs- und Integrationsrats), was elected Vice Chair.

“We are delighted to welcome a renowned scholar like Professor Lück as the Chair of our Board of Trustees”, says Marie-Claire Foblets, Managing Director of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. Members of the Board of Trustees are appointed by the Max Planck Society for a term of six years; their role is to strengthen the relationship between the Institute and the public and foster the dissemination of and engagement with the Institute’s research. To this end, the Board is made up of leading figures from politics, business, and academia. “Because many of our more than 200 researchers come from abroad, the support of Ms. Roth is particularly important to us. Her long experience with integration issues makes her an invaluable contact for the Institute and its staff”, Marie-Claire Foblets concludes.

Members of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology:

• Prof. Dr. Dr. Gunnar Berg, Vice President of the Leopoldina, German National Academy of Sciences
• Detlev Bortfeldt, judge for criminal justice of the District Court of Halle
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Brockmeier, Managing Director of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Halle-Dessau
• Dr. Karamba Diaby, Member of the Bundestag
• Alexander Farenholtz, Administrative Director and member of the Executive Board of the German Federal Cultural Foundation
• Herbert Feigl, law office Feigl & Rothamel
• Dr. Rüdiger Fikentscher, member of the Social Democratic Party of Halle
• Prof. Dr. em. Armin Höland
• Janis Kapetsis, CEO of the advertising agency Kappa GmbH
• Prof. Dr. em. Reinhard Kreckel, former President of Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
• Prof. Dr. Heiner Lück, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Faculty of Law, Economics and Business, Professor for Civil Law and European, German, and Saxon Legal History
• Johann Michael Möller, former Director of Radio Programming at the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk
• Satenik Roth, Deputy Chair of the Federal Immigration and Integration Council
• Wolfgang Stockert, former Chancellor of Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Halle
• Jan-Hinrich Suhr, Stiftung der Saalesparkasse
• Dr. Heinrich Wahlen, former Director of the Hallesche Wohnungsgesellschaft mbH