We are 28 activists, policy specialists & developers
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Anne Ware
Anne is responsible for fundraising at Jugend hackt. She has a degree in political and social sciences and has previously worked as a project manager and coach for youth participation and community programs.
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Arne Semsrott
Arne leads FragDenStaat.de and is an expert in the domain of Freedom of Information (FOI). With a background in political science, he also works as a freelance journalist and engages with other NGOs in topics related to transparency and lobbyism, e.g. for LobbyControl and the Whistleblower Network.
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Claudia Jach
Claudia conducts the accompanying research at the Prototype Fund. She represents the OKF in the organizing committee of the ‘Bits & Baeume’ conference.
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Dr. Daniel Wessolek
Daniel is passionate about the intersection of open hardware and open workshops. For the Open Knowledge Foundation, he works as a project manager on a prototype fund hardware as part of the MoFab project. As an interaction designer with a PhD, he is also active for other NGOs and is involved in assistive technologies for people who are deaf, for example.
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Dr. Henriette Litta
Henriette is Managing Director of OKF Germany. She is a political scientist and has been thinking about the concept of sovereignty in a democratic society for 20 years now. She brings in expertise especially in the fields of organizational development, political impact and finance architecture.
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Dr. Phillip Hofmann
Phillip is the company lawyer for the Open Knowledge Foundation Germany since 2020 and working as Head of Legal for the project FragDenStaat. Before, he had been working as a lawyer for multiple years in the areas of copyright, data protection and IT law. In the name of freedom of information and transparency, his hobbies include sueing and being sued.
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Ernesto Ruge
Ernesto is the founder and owner of binary butterfly, a software company specializing in web applications for transport and Open Data. Ernesto supports the OKF team in a volunteer capacity: He maintains the servers of the Wordpress blogfarm, housing numerous websites of OKF projects. When not tending to our websites, Ernesto is active in the Code for Germany network. As a volunteer developer he created the Civic Tech platforms Politik-bei-uns.de and mein-stadtarchiv.de. Ernesto also co-developed the data interface OParl, which benefits local government.
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Giulia Norberti
Giulia supports the management in bookkeeping, finances, accounting and general chaos management
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Gregor
Gregor supports us and our projects as system administrator. He works on facilitating open source software in business context.
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Hannah Vos
Hannah is with the OKF since March 2021 and part of FragDenStaat’s legal team.
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Ivan Botica
Since March 2021 Ivan supports Jugend hackt with administration of financies. Being in his last semester of social studies at FU Berlin his interests are volunteer work and perspectives of integration in Germany.
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Judith Doleschal
Judith is part of the FragDenStaat team and responsible for community management and fundraising.
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Lea Pfau
Lea has been working for the OKF since September 2017, first for the Demokratielabore and since May 2019 for FragDenStaat and the Volksentscheid Transparenz. She studied Political Science at the FU Berlin. Working with the European Youth Parliament, she explores the significance of media in policial youth education. She can often be found at events, either giving talks or shooting event videos.
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Leonie Gehrke
Leonie works for FragDenStaat where she manages press and public relations. Before, the political and media scientist worked as a spokesperson for multiple years and was responsible for brand development and various campaigns at an NGO.
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Marie Gutbub
Marie manages the Prototype Fund together with Patricia. She is also responsible for the events and the management of the funding projects. She studied cultural journalism and researched new models for online journalism platforms. Since then, she has worked as a freelance journalist, campaigner, communications officer, infosec trainer and event organizer for various projects in journalism, privacy and open source.
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Max Kronmüller
Max works at FragDenStaat as Student Assistant, where he previously also completed his year of voluntary service.
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Maximilian Richt
Maxi supports the OKF team in a volunteer capacity: As a software developer and Open enthusiast he has worked on many OKF projects. His experience and expertise are greatly valued by our tech team, who regularly turn to Maxi for consultation and hands-on help. Maxi has developed and deployed numerous Civic Tech and Open Source applications, with a passion for mobility and transport Open Data. As an active member of the volunteer network Code for Germany, he has developed Civic Tech platforms including kleineAnfragen.de and sehrgutachten.de.
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Maximilian Voigt
Maximilian Voigt works on projects in the field of open education. Further more he campaigns for fabrication laboratories, is engaged in physical computing and supports free education. Before his work at the OKF he co founded the FabLab Cottbus e.V., studied technical journalism, public relations and culture and technology. His master thesis was about the educational potential of open workshops.
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Mechthild Schmidt
Mechthild is project manager for Jugend hackt. She is coordinates the Jugend hackt Labs and aims to scale more Labs within Germany - so Jugend hackt has an impact everywhere. Furthermore, Mechthild is in charge for financial administration.
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Melek Bazgan
Melek has a Bachelors degree in International Relations and Organisations. She interned in the areas of anti-militarism and migration. Since September 2021, she is doing her voluntary year at the OKF, working with FragDenStaat.
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Nina Schröter
Nina has been responsible for the events ath Jugend hackt since the beginning of 2020. Prior to her time at Jugend hackt, she spent many years designing and supporting participation processes.
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Patricia Leu
Patricia manages the Prototype Fund together with Marie. She is also responsible for the communication of the Prototype Fund and for the management of the funding projects. She studied religion and culture in Berlin and did research on medial discourse hegemony. Previously, she worked in the campaign and communication teams of various NGOs and was responsible for the press and public relations of an association.
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Petra Balint
Petra supports the Managing Director and our projects in finance- and project management. She has previously worked as a project manager for various human rights, administrative modernization and open source projects.
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Philip Steffan
Philip joined Open Knowledge Foundation Germany in August 2018 as the new Community Manager of Jugend hackt. He’s always loved to connect, communicate and explain and has played an important part in the German Maker community in the past years as a makerspace founder, blogger, tech journalist and curator of Maker Faires.
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Sonja Fischbauer
Sonja studied archaeology and has worked at excavations and in museums. She has experience as a freelance consultant for multiple community-driven projects in the field of technology and Free Knowledge. For three years, she was a program lead for Jugend hackt.
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Stefan Wehrmeyer
Since 2009 Stefan Wehrmeyer promotes Open Data and he started the Freedom of Information (FOI) portal FragDenStaat.de in 2011.
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Vera Deleja-Hotko
Vera is an investigative journalist and manages journalistic research at FragDenStaat. Before, she worked as a freelance journalist mainly on the topics of migration, right-wing extremism, and social injustices for German, Austrian and Swiss media. She was part of the team working on the publication of the Ibiza-Video as well as the Frontex Files.
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Walter Palmetshofer
Walter is an economist by training and has been involved in the domain of Netzpolitik for many years. He is project lead of the EU research project Open Data Incubator (ODINE), the Digitaler Offenheitsindex [do:index], and supervises the Open Data Census. He worked as a system administrator in NYC, before moving to Berlin, where he co-founded a start-up in 2012.