{"id":180,"date":"2020-10-09T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stiftung-forum-recht.de\/?page_id=180"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T10:20:07","slug":"board-of-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stiftung-forum-recht.de\/en\/stiftungsorgane\/direktorium\/","title":{"rendered":"Board of Directors"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dr CORD BR\u00dcGMANN<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Dr Cord Br\u00fcgmann, Director of Stiftung Forum Recht. Photo: Felix Gr\u00fcnschlo\u00df<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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He is a lawyer who has practiced law for many years, has served in management positions, and worked as a political consultant. From 2003 to 2018, Dr. Br\u00fcgmann initially served as Managing Director for Professional Training and Continuing Education and later as Chief Executive Officer of the German Bar Association (Deutscher Anwaltverein). In this role, he represented the professional association in the political and public spheres for over ten years and advocated for the modernization and professionalization of the association's structures.<\/p>

Dr. Cord Br\u00fcgmann received his doctorate in 2008 at the Technische Universit\u00e4t Berlin with a dissertation on \u201cAnti-Semitism and decisions of civil courts in the Weimar Republic.\u201d He was involved in the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, where he developed educational programs. Since 2020, he has hosted the podcast \u201cRechtsgespr\u00e4ch,\u201d which looks at innovations in the legal market and matters related to accessing justice.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t

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Dr Stephan N. Barthelmess<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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He is an art historian, curator and a cultural manager with many years of international experience, with a strong focus on the business and corporate management of festivals, cultural venues, and museums also history of art. After studying in the master class of the cellist Csaba Onczay at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest in 1981\/82, he studied art history, classical archaeology, and philosophy in Munich and Paris. His dissertation at the Sorbonne in Paris (1995) primarily dealt with the concept of postmodernism and the role of the architecture of museum buildings in the urban context. While serving as a fellow of the J. Paul Getty Research Institute\u00a0in Los Angeles in 1989\/90, and having received numerous scholarships from the French government, the European Union, and the DAAD, his doctoral thesis examined the topic of the urbanization of architecture focusing on museums and cultural buildings and their influence on the development of urban structures.<\/p>

His training as a cultural manager goes back to research stays in Philadelphia and at the Management Center in St. Gallen. \nAfter holding leading management positions at the Pablo Casals Prades Festival, the Frankfurt Book Fair, the Stiftung Preu\u00dfischer Kulturbesitz and the Haus der Kunst in Munich, Dr. Barthelmess was Chief Executive Officer of the Kultukreis H\u00f6xter-Corvey gGmbH and most recently Chief Financial Officer of the Kunsthalle Mannheim.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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