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- ↑ Supervisory Board RAG AG.
- ↑ Board of Trustees Stiftung St. Matthäus, Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia.
- ↑ Members of the University Council University of Bielefeld.
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