Wilhelm Krull

Wilhelm Krull in 2012 during a speech on the limits of growth

Wilhelm Krull (born February 19, 1952 in Emsland ) was Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation in Hanover from 1996 to 2019 . From 2003 to 2005 he was Chairman of the Association of Large European Foundations (The Hague Club), from 2006 to 2008 Chairman of the European Foundation Center and from 2008 to 2014 Chairman of the Board of the Association of German Foundations .

Life

Krull studied German, philosophy, education and political science in Bremen and Marburg and then did his doctorate. He then worked for four years as a DAAD lecturer at the University of Oxford and held leading positions in the Science Council and in the general administration of the Max Planck Society . Wilhelm Krull was Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation from 1996 to 2019 .

In addition to his professional activities in science policy and research funding, he has held numerous functions in national, foreign and international bodies, including the OECD , the EU , the BMBF , the Max Planck Society and the Science Council. From 2005 to 2006 he headed the expert commission for the preparation of the Excellence Initiative . He has also been active as a scientific policy advisor abroad, for example in Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Great Britain, Ireland, Spain and Switzerland as well as in China, Canada, Singapore and South Africa.

honors and awards

2001: Leibniz Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz
2007: North Star Order
2009: Honorary Senator of the University of Konstanz
2010: Lower Saxony State Prize together with Ulrich Tukur
2012: Honorary professorship in the Faculty of Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
2012: Honorary member of the Academia Europaea
2016: Honorary doctorate from Ilia State University
2019: Foreign Membership of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering and Honorary Fellowship from St. Edmund Hall , University of Oxford

Publications (selection)

The measured university: goal, wish and reality . Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2017, ISBN 978-3-7092-0256-2 .
with Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn (Ed.): Our Herrenhausen 2030 - History and Perspectives: Herrenhausen Matinee 2015 . AVM Edition, Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95477-064-9 .
as editor: War - from all sides. Prose from the time of the First World War . Wallstein Verlag, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1346-0 .
Research and Responsibility - Reflections on Our Common Future. European Publishing House, Hamburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-863-930103 .
Creating the future - promoting creativity . UVK, Konstanz, 2010, ISBN 978-3-87940-826-9 .
as editor: Future dispute . Velbrück Wissenschaft, Weilerswist 2000, ISBN 3-934730-17-5 .
with Frieder Meyer-Krahmer (Ed.): Science and Technology in Germany . John Harper Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 0-9536278-3-7 .
A foundation university for the knowledge society in: Horst Kern (Ed.): The Georgia Augusta as foundation university . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2003, ISBN 3-525-82649-4 , pp. 20-37.
Nurturing innovation - new opportunities for European foundations . In: EFFECT Magazine. Vol.1 Issue 3, Autumn 2007, EFC, pp. 14–15 ( PDF; 1.7 MB )
Encouraging Change: European foundations funding research . In: Norine Macdonald, Luc Tayart de Borms: Philanthropy in Europe. A rich past, a promising future . Alliance Publishing Trust, London 2008, ISBN 0-9558804-0-8 , pp. 245-244.

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Krull - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Wilhelm Krull in the catalog of the German National Library
Heike Schmoll: Wilhelm Krull: thought leader in the science system. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . December 24, 2019 .; accessed on December 25, 2019

Individual evidence

↑ Lower Saxony State Prize for Wilhelm Krull ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Volkswagen Foundation homepage from December 1, 2010, accessed on January 9, 2017 @1@ 2

↑ Honorary professorship for Wilhelm Krull ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Volkswagen Foundation homepage of July 11, 2012, accessed on September 5, 2014 @1@ 2

^ Directory of members: Wilhelm Krull. Academia Europaea, accessed June 17, 2017 .

^ Honorary Doctors. Ilia State University, accessed November 21, 2017 .

↑ Honorary Fellow St Edmund Hall url = https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/wilhelm_krull

personal data
SURNAME	Krull, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German foundation official, Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation
DATE OF BIRTH	19th February 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Emsland

[1] Lower Saxony State Prize for Wilhelm Krull ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Volkswagen Foundation homepage from December 1, 2010, accessed on January 9, 2017 @1@ 2

[2] Honorary professorship for Wilhelm Krull ( Memento of the original from January 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Volkswagen Foundation homepage of July 11, 2012, accessed on September 5, 2014 @1@ 2

[3] Directory of members: Wilhelm Krull. Academia Europaea, accessed June 17, 2017 .

[4] Honorary Doctors. Ilia State University, accessed November 21, 2017 .

[5] Honorary Fellow St Edmund Hall url = https://www.seh.ox.ac.uk/people/wilhelm_krull