Rudolf Bühler

Board and Chairman Foundation House of Farmers

For more than 40 years, Rudolf Bühler has been involved as an agricultural engineer, agricultural sociologist and tropical farmer in rural regional development projects at home and abroad. In the beginning, he worked for many years as a development aid worker and since 1984 in his home region of Hohenlohe, where he took over his ancestors' family farm Sonnenhof in Wolpertshausen and opened an office for rural regional development. His most important domestic projects are the rescue of the old landrace Schwäbisch-Hällisches pig, the foundation of various farming organizations as well as the foundation Haus der Bauern/Akademie Schloss Kirchberg. His international projects are guided by the motto "Seeds of Hope".

Prof. Dr. Franz-Theo Gottwald

Head of the Kirchberg Castle Academy

Professor Dr. Franz-Theo Gottwald studied theology, philosophy, Indology and social sciences. After research stays on environmental and agricultural ethical issues abroad, he worked in the field of environmental management at the consulting firm Schirmer und Kollegen. From 1988 to 2020, he was a board member of the Schweisfurth Foundation for Sustainable Agricultural and Food Sciences. Franz-Theo Gottwald researches and teaches as an honorary professor of agricultural, nutritional and environmental ethics at Humboldt University Berlin. He is involved in a variety of voluntary activities, for example as chairman of the supervisory board of the World Future Council Foundation and chairman of the board of the Bavarian Culinary Heritage Association. The author of expert literature on sustainable development, SDGs and corporate responsibility also acts as a keynote speaker and moderator. Since December 2021, Professor Franz-Theo Gottwald has the head of the Akademie Schloss Kirchberg. Together with Chairman Rudolf Bühler and the team, he continues to develop the Academy's work.

Karoline Baumann

Geschäftsstellenleitung der Akademie Schloss Kirchberg 
karoline.baumann@hdb-stiftung.com
Telefon (07954) 9 21 18 80

Ulrike Gabert

Administration and office manager of the Foundation House of Farmers
ulrike.gabert@hdb-stiftung.com
Phone (07954) 9 21 54 70

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