is chairman of the board of the German Palliative Foundation. The anesthetist, pain therapist and palliative medicine specialist from Hesse has worked intensively regionally and nationwide to develop outpatient palliative care. He gave up his practice in 2009 and has since been involved in the German Palliative Foundation on a voluntary basis as co-founder and chairman of the board. With the current project “I run for life”, the foundation wants to bring the hospice idea and palliative knowledge to new social groups that would otherwise hardly come into contact with it.