Executive Board

DLR Executive Board

Pascale Ehrenfreund – Chair of the DLR Executive Board
Pascale Ehrenfreund has been Chair of the DLR Executive Board since 17 August 2015. Born in 1960, Ehrenfreund obtained degrees in Astronomy and Biology at the University of Vienna, where she also earned her doctorate in 1990. Ehrenfreund was appointed as a Fellow of the European Space Agency (ESA) at the Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, upon completion of her doctoral studies.
Klaus Hamacher - Vice Chairman of the Executive Board
Klaus Hamacher, Vice Chairman of the Executive Board, is the DLR Executive Board member responsible for administrative and technical management, including personnel, finance, corporate control, corporate organisation, quality and product assurance, auditing, joint ventures, large-scale projects and career management.
Karsten Lemmer – Member of the Executive Board
Karsten Lemmer is the DLR Executive Board Member responsible for Energy and Transport. An electrical engineer, he pursued a career in academia and worked in the railway industry before joining DLR as an Institute Director in 2001.
Hansjörg Dittus - Member of the Executive Board
Hansjörg Dittus was appointed as DLR Executive Board Member for Space Research and Technology on 1 October 2011. From 1977 to 1982, Dittus studied physics and geophysics at the University of Munich. After graduating, he worked as a researcher in the Institute of General and Applied Geophysics at the University of Munich, and was awarded a doctorate in 1986.
Rolf Henke - Member of the Executive Board
Rolf Henke joined the DLR Executive Board on 1 November 2010 and is responsible for Aeronautics research. Henke was born in Lüdenscheid in 1956 and studied Aerospace Technology between 1975 and 1980 at the Technical University of Berlin (Technische Universität Berlin; TU Berlin). In 1981, he received a scholarship in the form of a postgraduate bursary from the British Council for a research placement at the Cranfield Institute of Technology (now Cranfield University) in the UK.
Walther Pelzer - Member of the Executive Board
Walther Pelzer has been a Member of the DLR Executive Board since 1 January 2018. He is Head of the DLR Space Administration, based in Bonn.

Executive Board

DLR Executive Board

Pascale Ehrenfreund – Chair of the DLR Executive Board

Klaus Hamacher - Vice Chairman of the Executive Board

Karsten Lemmer – Member of the Executive Board

Hansjörg Dittus - Member of the Executive Board

Rolf Henke - Member of the Executive Board

Walther Pelzer - Member of the Executive Board

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Farewell to 2018 - A successful DLR year comes to an end

Alexander Gerst is back on Earth

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News / Executive Board

Space – accessibility, diplomacy and cooperation

Research into climate-neutral air transport

Light-dark shadows in the Martian highlands

The DLR delegation during a visit to the JAXA Tsukuba Space Centre on 31 July 2019

Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and DLR welcome European policy-makers to Brussels

DLR strengthens Germany as a technology location with seven new institutes

DLR and ONERA – joint research into AI for the aerospace sector

A rover for Phobos and Deimos

eROSITA – the hunt for Dark Energy begins

DLR at the Paris Air Show 2019

We are DLR!

Global Conference on Space in Emerging Countries

The DLR Center for Lightweight-Production-Technology celebrates 10 years of research

EU Commissioner Elżbieta Bieńkowska visits DLR

New test stand for Ariane 6 upper stage at DLR Lampoldshausen

DLR in 2019 – Research for the Energy Transition, environment-friendly aviation and a greater understanding of the Universe

High-tech support for humanitarian aid

Consul General of India Sugandh Rajaram visits DLR

Farewell to 2018 - A successful DLR year comes to an end

Alexander Gerst is back on Earth