Organisation Structure

Senior Management
President of the German Patent and Trade Mark Office	Cornelia Rudloff-Schäffer
Vice-President	Günther Schmitz
Public relations	Petra Knüfermann
Internal communications and key support to senior management	Nadja Amendt, Simone Derst-Vogt
Central controlling	Peter Gartner
Internal audit, corruption prevetion and office data protection	Ariane Umlauf

Broads of Arbitration
Arbitration Board under the Law on Employees' Inventions	Dr. Ulrich Himmelmann
Arbitration Board under the Copyright Administration Law	Jörg Portmann

Departments
Department	Head of Department
Department 1/I - Patents I	Dr. Christel Schuster
Department 1/II - Patents II	TBA
Department 2 - Information	Michael Ganzenmüller
Department 3 - Trade Marks, Utility Models, Designs	Barbara Preißner
Department 4 - Administration and Law	Dr. Regina Hock