KAAD Honorary President Professor emeritus Dr Peter Hünermann celebrates his 95th birthday

In 1985, Peter Hünermann took over the newly created office of President of the KAAD. In the first years of his presidency of the KAAD, he restructured our scholarship organisation by transferring the model of partner committees, which he had tried out in his work as Chairman of the Scholarship Organisation Latin America-Germany ( Intercambio Cultural Alemán Latinoamerica , ICALA), to KAAD. Similarly, the KAAD office was organised into five continental departments in order to intensify cooperation with local partners. The ‘Jahresakademie’, the annual highlight of our educational work, was also established by Peter Hünermann . Peter Hünermann retired from the office of President in 2002, but remained actively involved with KAAD as Honorary President. In 2008, he established the KAAD Foundation Peter Hünermann , which provides financial support for educational projects of former KAAD scholarship holders. Since 2011, it has awarded an annual prize to outstanding alumnae or alumni who have returned to their home country in cooperation with our alumni associations and partner committees.

From 1971 to 1982, Peter Hünermann taught as Professor of Dogmatics at the University of Münster, and from 1982 until his retirement in 1997 in Tübingen.

April 2022: Peter Hünermann presents the award of the KAAD Foundation to Dr Constansia Mumma-Martinon from Kenya during the 2022 Annual Convention

The Board of the KAAD Foundation Peter Hünermann in June 2023: Father Dr Hans Langendörfer SJ, Professor emeritus Dr Peter Hünermann, Dr Nora Kalbarczyk and Dr Hermann Weber (from left to right)