The Supervisory Board of the European Capital of Culture Chemnitz 2025 gGmbH consists of representatives from the federal government, the Free State of Saxony, the City of Chemnitz, the region and the business community and is tasked with advising, monitoring and supervising the gGmbH. The Chemnitz City Council elected the members at its meeting on 5 May 2021. The first constituent meeting of the Supervisory Board took place on 26 May 2021.
The Chairman of the Supervisory Board is Lord Mayor Sven Schulze, the Deputy Chairman is the entrepreneur Dr Micaela Schönherr.
Members of the Supervisory Board
- Sven Schulze, Lord Mayor of the City of Chemnitz, Chairman of the Supervisory Board
- Dr Micaela Schönherr, CFO at Prefere Resins in Berlin, Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board
- Ministerial DirectorDr Jan Ole Püschel, Head of Group K 3: Media, Film, International Affairs of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM)
- Headof Department Franziska Brech, Head of the Culture and Tourism Division at the Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism
- Almut Patt, CDU, City Councillor
- Arnošt Marks, Ph.D., MSc, Vice Dean for Creative, International and Innovative Activities and Director of the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, Art and High Technology at the University of West Bohemia, Plzen
- Mikko Fritze, Director of the Finnish Institute for German-speaking Countries in Berlin.
- Silke Franzl, Mayor of the town of Ehrenfriedersdorf (since 12 October 2022)
- Dagmar Ruscheinsky, Mayor of the City of Chemnitz, Head of Department 5: Social Affairs, Youth, Health, Culture and Sport (since 16 March 2022)
Former members of the Supervisory Board
- Bernd Birkigt, Mayor of the City of Oelsnitz/Erzgebirge and Chairman of the Friends of the European Cultural Region Chemnitz 2025 e.V. (until 31 July 2022)
- Nancy Gibson, Director of the Chemnitz Municipal Music School (until 16 March 2022)
- Sebastian Hecht, in his former function as Head of the Culture and Tourism Division at the Saxon State Ministry of Science, Culture and Tourism (until 7 July 2023)
