Volker Knöll

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  • 1970 born in Weinheim an der Bergstraße
  • Apprenticeship as wholesale and foreign trade merchant
  • studies in business administration
  • extra-occupational studies in nonprofit management and fundraising

Professional stations

  • 1998-2000 Sales controlling for Italian Special machinery company in Frankfurt a.M.
  • 2000-2011 Main employee at Deutscher Evangelischer Kirchentag (DEKT), since 2005 member of the management board
  • 2012-2020 CEO of the Cellex Group
  • since 2021 Managing Director of Regionale Diakonische Werke in Hessen und Nassau gGmbH

Voluntary positions

  • 2001-2010 Chairman of the Förderverein zur Förderung der Christlichen Pfadfinderschaft Rimbach e.V. (Association for the Promotion of the Christian Scout Association)
  • since 2007 Member of the Friends of the Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem
  • 2012-2017 Member of the Protestant Church Association Cologne and Region
  • 2015-2022 Board member of the Cellex Foundation, since 2022 member of the Board of Trustees of Cellex Foundation
  • since 2016 Advisory Board/Foundation Council German Dementia Foundation
  • since 2020 Board member of the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation Darmstadt e.V.