The Board of Trustees was constituted on 25 January 2002. The current members are:
- Stefan Schmitt-Hüttebräuker | Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media (Chair)
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Asche, Ph.D. | Potsdam University Faculty of Philosophy, Historical Institute
- Dr. Gundula Bavendamm | Director of Documentation Centre for Displacement, Expulsion, Reconciliation
- Mark Dainow | Vice President of Central Council of Jews in Germany
- Representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Latvia
- Dr. Joachim Mähnert | Director of the East Prussian state museum with Baltic German Department, representative of the members’ assembly
- Karin Melzer | Representative of the Ministry of Science, Research and Culture, Brandenburg
- Alisa Podoliak | Representative of the Embassy of the Republic of Ukraine
- Prof. Dr. Matthias Weber | Director of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe