GERMANY

Peter Ferdinand Gummersbach
Annual Member. Main fields: State-examined Hotel Business Manager. His priorities are Tourism, Hotel Management, Hotel Industry, Gastronomy. Since 1998, Hotel Manager in the Castle Hotel Storkau (4* Hotel); Sleep & Meet Hotel, Seminarcenter, Erfurt-Linderbach (4* Hotel); Golden Tulip Hotel Palmengarten, Offenburg (4* Hotel); Best Western Hotel am Münster, Breisach (4* Superior Hotel); Castle Hotel Schkopau (4* Superior Hotel). Cavaliere Il Ordine Constantiniano di Tessaglia; Cavaleiro de Mérito de Real Confraria de Sao Teotonio; Member, Int. Fédération Cuisinier Exclusive d'Europe.

Gudrun Kalmbach
Academic Member. Dr.rer.nat., University of Ottingen. Main fields: Mathematician, education and educational reform. 1963-66, Assistant; 1967-69, Lecturer, University of Illinois; 1970-71, Assistant Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst; 1969-75, Assistant Professor, PA State University; 1975-present, University of Ulm. Since 1985, she has developed programmes for the mathematically talented, founding the Emmy Noether Association. She has developed a multidimensional geometry model wich integrates mechanical physics, the theories of Einstein and the Big Bang theory.

Christian Albrecht May
Founder Member. MD, PhD. Main fields: Functional morphology of the eye. 1994-95, Internship in Psychiatry, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; 1993-2002, Research Assistant at the Department of Anatomy II, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; 2002-2004, Privatdozent, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg; 2004-present, Full Professor for Anatomy, Carl Gustav Carus Faculty, TU Dresden. He is also an active musician: singer, cellist, viola player, and composer. He has travelled Europe and South America on concert tours.

Manfred Thiel
Academic Member. Dr. Philosophy. Main fields: Scientist, philosopher, poet. Editor Studium Generale, 1964-65; publisher Elpis Verlag GmbH, 1977-present. Publications: Karl Jaspers, 1988; The Nihilism: Heidegger and the Sophistry, 1986; Encounter with East Asia, 1986; Sartre, 1987; Prolegomena to a Philosophy of Immediacy, 1988; J.G. Herder, 1991; Fries, 1991; Hegel, 1992; Schelling, 1993; The book about fortune and bliss, 1993; God, 1997; Kant, 1997; Platon, 1998; Plotin, 1999; Philosophy-An Autobiography, 2000; Schopenhauer, 2001; Bruno, 2002; Croce, 2003; Schiller, 2005.