On November 18, 2021, the Senate of the German Aerospace Society (DGLR) elected a new Presidium for the term of office from January 1, 2022 to December 31, 2024.

The new president is Roland Gerhards, who has been managing director of the ZAL Center for Applied Aviation Research in Hamburg since 2012. Before that, he worked for 15 years in various positions at Airbus in Hamburg. Gerhards succeeds Rolf Henke, who has held the office of DGLR President since 2013. Cornelia Hillenherms, who works as Managing Editor of the CEAS Aeronautical Journal at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), was re-elected as Vice President for the DGLR. In addition to Gerhards, Ulrich Beck, CFO for a joint venture of the Airbus Group, is new to the DGLR Presidium. He will assume the office of Second Vice President and Treasurer.

The rest of the Presidium is made up of two new and two re-elected members of the Presidium: Bianca Hörsch, Chief Digital Officer at the European Space Agency ESA, and Andreas Wolke, Divisional Manager for Central Tasks at the German Space Agency at DLR, are new. Rolf Janovsky, Director Pre-Development, Space System Studies and Offers at OHB-System, and Uwe Klingauf, Professor of Flight Systems and Control Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, will remain on the DGLR Presidium for another term.