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The Council of Die Junge Akademie is a committee which advises the members and the Board and helps build the network of Die Junge Akademie with science, arts and society. The up to seven council members are elected for three years and come from various scientific and artistic disciplines as well as other areas of society, science management and science policy. Die Junge Akademie alumni are also regularly involved.
Council members should deliver impetus, criticism, ideas and assistance and in so doing support the members in discovering new intersections between science and society, politics, art and culture. This is not a matter of supervision or even controlling the work of others. Instead, the work of the Council is focused on dialogue with a group of independent thinkers, personalities from science and socio-critical consultants that meet at least once a year with members of Die Junge Akademie.
Current Council
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Prof. Dr. Helge Braun
President of the University of Luebeck
former federal minister -
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Britz
Professorship in Public Law, Faculty of Law, Goethe University Frankfurt
Judge at the German Federal Constitutional Court a.D. -
Prof. Dr. Christian Drosten
Director of the Institute for Virology, Charité University Hospital Berlin
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Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee
Rector at the University of Cologne
President of the German Academic Exchange Service -
Prof. Dr. Armin Nassehi
from 1 October 2025 Vice President, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Dr. Mithu Sanyal
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Dr. Anna Lena Scholz
Journalist and Editor, Wissen department at DIE ZEIT weekly newspaper
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Former Council members 35 results
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2022 — 2025
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Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger
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Prof. Dr. Joybrato Mukherjee
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Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy
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Dr. Anna Lena Scholz
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Prof. Dr. Peter Strohschneider
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Andreas Voßkuhle
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2019 — 2022
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Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers, LL.M.
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Prof. Dr. Bénédicte Savoy
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
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Prof. Dr. Peter Strohschneider
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Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal
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2016 — 2019
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Prof. Dr. Jutta Allmendinger
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Prof. Dr. Julia Fischer
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Jürgen Kaube
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Maria Kiesow
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Matthias Kleiner
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Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers, LL.M.
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Prof. Dr. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger
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2013 — 2016
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Prof. Dr. Julia Fischer
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Jürgen Kaube
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Prof. Dr. Rainer Maria Kiesow
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Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte
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Prof. Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin, Staatsminister a.D.
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Prof. Dr. Hildegard Westphal
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Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel
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2009 — 2013
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Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston
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Prof. Dr. Wolf Lepenies
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Prof. Dr. Karin Lochte
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Prof. Dr. Julian Nida-Rümelin, Staatsminister a.D.
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Prof. Dr. Pierre Rosenberg
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Prof. Dr. Helmut Schwarz
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Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel
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2005 — 2008
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Prof. Dr. Lorraine Daston
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Helga Dierichs, M.A.
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl
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Nele Hertling
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Prof. Dr. Wolf Lepenies
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Prof. Dr. Renate Mayntz
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Prof. Dr. Randolf Menzel
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Prof. Dr. Jens Reich
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Prof. Dr. Pierre Rosenberg
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Prof. Dr.-Ing. Michael Zäh
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2002 — 2005
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Dr. Luca Marighetti
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Prof. Dr. Susan Neiman
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Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny
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Prof. Dr. Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard
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Dr. Ulrich Raulff
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Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Reemtsma
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Prof. Dr. med. Wolf Singer
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Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Hans-Arwed Weidenmüller
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