Board of Directors

Chair of the Board

Vacant after resignation

Deputy Chair of the Board

Vacant after resignation

Peter Liesegang

Treasurer

Peter Liesegang is treasurer of the German-Belarusian Society. He studied economics at the University of Heidelberg and business administration at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt an der Oder. He has been interested in Eastern Europe, especially Belarus, for many years and is involved in the civil society sector.

Volker Jansen

Associate member

Volker Jansen is an Associate Member of the Board of the German-Belarusian Society. He studied German and Slavic studies in Berlin and Tübingen. From 1970 to 2008, he was a teacher at the Ravensburg Technical School. Since 1987, he has been active in the twinning partnerships with Brest in Belarus: school exchange, inviting dance ensembles, served as a speaker at the Weeks of German Language and Culture in Brest, and much more. In the 1990s and early 2000s, he took part in work camps organised by the association Heimstatt Tschernobyl at Lake Naroch and Lake Lepel in Belarus, and accompanied visitors there. He has two grown-up children and lives in Weingarten/Württemberg.

Piet Mumm

Associate member

Piet Mumm is an Associate Member of the Board of the German-Belarusian Society. He was one of the first six German community service volunteers in Belarus. As a volunteer for Aktion Sühnezeichen / Friedensdienste, he worked for two years in a kindergarten in Minsk. After studying law in Regensburg and Berlin, he worked in Almaty and Zurich, among other places. Today he works as a lawyer and lives with his family in Berlin.