Sponsors
Sponsors of the Max Planck Society
"In times of fierce global competition for the best scientists, we need additional financial resources and instruments. We must do everything we can to maintain, or indeed improve, the world leading positions of our education and research institutions."
(Dr. Stefan von Holtzbrinck, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Foundation)
Max Planck Society Fundraising Committee
The Max Planck Society Fundraising Committee is comprised of a group of prominent individuals representing society and the economy. This body actively supports and advises the Max Planck Society in its efforts to secure private funding for basic research. The members of the Committee are:
- Dr. Alexander Dibelius
- Dr. Stefan von Holtzbrinck
- Dr. Klaus Neugebauer
- Prof. Dr. Heinrich v. Pierer
- Prof. Dr. Reinhard Pöllath
- Prof. Dr. Jan Philipp Reemtsma
- Randolf Rodenstock
- Dr. Albrecht Schmidt
- Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn
Principal sponsors of the Max Planck Society since its foundation in 1948:
- Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft
- William G. and Louise Kerckhoff
- Karl Wilhelm Starker and Margarethe Werner
- Karl Ziegler
- Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau
- Bayer AG
- Hoechst AG
- Allianz SE
- BASF SE
- Hydro Aluminium Deutschland GmbH
- Helmut and Paula Nielsen
- Luitpold Herzog in Bayern
- Käthe Pannier
- Münchener Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG
- Siemens AG
- Alfried Krupp von Bohlen and Halbach-Stiftung
- Ernst Rudolf Schloeßmann and Maria Hermine Büchmann
- Johannes Heidenhain
- Panasonic Deutschland GmbH
- Minna-James-Heineman Stiftung
- Richard and Anne-Liese Gielen-Leyendecker
- Gertrud Reemtsma
- Ernst and Marianne Neuberg
- Heinz L. and Helga Krekeler
- Jan Philipp Reemtsma
- Elsa Margarethe Heydner
- Erika Maier
- ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin and Gerd Bucerius
- Walter and Margarethe Rahner
- Günter Göbel
- Heinz Nixdorf Stiftung
- Herta Margarethe Richter
- Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
- Gerda Weynand and Freddy Kelternich
- Rolf Witte
- Microsoft Corp.
- David Harding
- Ernst-Haage-Stiftung
- Irmgard Elisabeth Hoffmann
- Hedwig Maria Schomberg
- Brigitte Kurmann-Schwarz and Peter Kurmann
Max Planck Foundation
- Stefan von Holtzbrinck
- Reinhard Pöllath
- Martin Brost
- Hermann Neuhaus
- Rudolf Wanzl
- Carolin Engelhorn
- Max and Ingeburg Herz Stiftung
The Max Planck Society would like to extend its warmest thanks to its sponsors, benefactors, and supporters for their long-term ties and all of its supporting members, friends and supporters of basic research.
