SPK Deputy Director Gero Dimter is to become spokesperson for the board of the German Digital Library
News from 05/20/2026
The German Digital Library has a new leadership team: Gero Dimter, Vice-President of the SPK, has been elected spokesperson for the Executive Board. Prof. Dr Patricia Rahemipour (Director of the Institute for Museum Research, SPK) has been appointed as one of the deputy spokespersons. This decision was taken by the network’s general meeting on 12 May 2026
Gero Dimter (Vice-President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) was elected as spokesperson for the Executive Board. Prof. Dr Patricia Rahemipour (Director of the Institute for Museum Research, Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation) is now one of the deputy spokespersons. Alongside the General Assembly and the Board of Trustees, the Executive Board is one of three governing bodies of the German Digital Library Competence Network. It represents the Competence Network and the German Digital Library externally.
Gero Dimter: “I am delighted that the members of the Competence Network have placed their trust in me. Together, we want to future-proof the German Digital Library, simplify data submission procedures and improve the delivery of results. In this way, we are developing the German Digital Library into a reliable AI-supported data and service hub.”
Prof. Dr Patricia Rahemipour: “As Director of the Institute for Museum Research, which also houses the Museum Department of the German Digital Library, and given my role on the SPK Executive Board, I greatly value the work of the German Digital Library and its extraordinary contribution to making cultural heritage accessible. It is particularly important to me to bring together the different perspectives of museums, libraries, archives and academic institutions and to develop sustainable solutions together.”
German Digital Library
The German Digital Library links the digital collections of cultural and knowledge institutions in Germany and makes them centrally accessible. It offers everyone free access via the internet to digitised museum objects, books, pieces of music, monuments, films, documents and many other cultural treasures. The German Digital Library functions as a network; it links and presents the digital resources of its partners and contributes to the democratisation of knowledge and resources.