Chair:
Dr Lothar Theodor Lemper

Deputy Chair of the Directorate:
Dagmar Ziegler MP, former State Minister, former Vice President of the German Bundestag

Further members of the Directorate:
Ignaz Bender
Professor Dr Wolfgang Bergsdorf
Klaus Laepple
Jochen Welt

The OBS directorate was elected in 2018; its mandate lasts for three years.