Committees and Commissions Executive Committee The executive committee is the Union’s central decision-making body. Members of the executive committee are the presidents of the member academies and the president of the Union. Prof. Dr. Hermann H. Hahn President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences und Humanities Prof. Dr. Elke Lütjen-Drecoll President of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz Prof. Dr. Dr. Hanns Hatt President of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Humanities Prof. Dr. Heimo Reinitzer President of  the Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg Prof. Dr. Christian Starck President of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences Prof. Dr. Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer President of the Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig Prof. Dr. Günter Stock President of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and President of the Union Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Hoffmann President of the Bavarian Academy of Schiences and Humanities Management Dr. Dieter Herrmann Secretary General of the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities		Office Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2 55131 Mainz / Germany Tel.: +49 - 61 31/21 85 28-0 Fax: +49 - 61 31/21 85 28-11 info@akademienunion.de Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Göttingen Academy of Sciences Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities Saxonian Academy of Sciences in Leipzig Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Humanities Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Hamburg