Katarina Witt Foundation

"In all the years in which I was able to celebrate athletic success, I was completely healthy. I have often considered how to share my good fortune with those, especially children, who are not so healthy. With the Katarina Witt-Foundation, I would like to encourage and offer concrete help to those who are physically disabled, be it the result of an accident, a natural disaster or for other reasons. With the help of the foundation I would like to provide as much mobility, independence and happiness as possible, for those who are misfortunate."

Board of Directors of the Katarina Wit Foundation

Katarina Witt

President of the Board of Directors. The two-time Olympic champion in women’s figure skating started the foundation in 2005. Since the end of her figure skating career in 2008, she has worked internationally as a TV and show Producer.

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Prof. Hans Georg Näder

Mr. Professor Näder is Vice-President of the Board of Directors. He is Chief Executive of the Otto Bock group of companies.

Karl-Hermann Haack

The former member of the German parliament was, from 1998 to 2005, a representative of the federal government for the interests of disabled people.

Rainer Schmidt

The table-tennis player made it to world champion and several time medal winner in the Paralympics. He works as an evangelical preacher, author and freelances as a speaker.

Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper

The athletic scholar, Dr. Gudrun Doll-Tepper, heads the department of Integrational Pedagogy, Physical Education in the field of Educational Science and Psychology at the Freie University in Berlin. In teaching and research, she is mostly concerned with sports for the physically disabled. Prof. Doll-Tepper is an honorary figure in many national and international sports organizations, for instance the IOC-Commission for Women und Sport, the German Olympic Sports Union, and as Vice-President for Education and Olympic Education, as well as being president in the German Olympic Academy.