by Gunter Schreier, at DFD since 1985
by Hon.-Prof. Dr Rudolf Winter, DFD Remote Sensing Applications department head from 1980 until 1996
by Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Gredel, DFD Information Systems department head until 1998, and then head of Strategic Planning and Resources at DFD and EOC until December 2002
by Kurt Schmidt, former head of the Information Technology Department (DFD-IT)