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The initiator
Dr. Georgios Pandalis
The initiator of the Dr. Pandalis Foundation was the man whom it is also named after, Dr. Georgios Pandalis. Born in 1952 in Greece, he came as an 18-year-old to Germany in order to study biology and biochemistry in Münster and Düsseldorf. After achieving his doctorate in the field of diabetes research, he conducted further research in the pharmaceutical-chemical industry until the end of the 1980s. Pandalis was also involved in the development and setting up of the preventive care programmes – a measure which today he seriously regrets. Because these medical examinations, as he is aware today, do not serve to promote health but rather other (financial) aims. Even then he was able to observe how synthetic medicine, as a result of its patentability, was increasingly forcing nature into retreat although, after all, it is only able to provide therapy for the more superficial symptoms and cannot serve to promote sustainable health.
On visits back to his Greek home, the peninsula Chalkidiki, he also noticed how the typical maquis scrubland had suffered due to so-called " cultivation": within a period of just a few years the species-rich landscapes where, as a boy, Pandalis used to collect bunches of cistus which his grandmother – who was a midwife – needed for ablutions of young mothers who had recently given birth, had been transformed into monotonous cultivated land. And the crystal-clear streams which used to flow through these areas are now used for rinsing of EU-subsidised spraying systems. Shocked, disappointed and homeless, he returned to Germany and collected his thoughts and feelings together as a young scientist in his own philosophy, the "Indigenous Philosophy". He resigned his executive position in the pharmaceutical industry on grounds of conscience and principle and, already back in the 1980s, began on his own initiative to conduct research into traditional European plants for nutrition and medicine. During this time Pandalis came across bear's garlic (allium ursinum) as an alternative to Asian garlic. Consequently the first product launched by his company, founded in 1989, was bear's garlic granules. Numerous imitators have profited from his knowledge in recent years and avoided doing any research of their own. Today the established company Naturprodukte Dr. Pandalis develops health products which are 100% natural (no chemicals whatsoever) based on traditional European plants, without in any way endangering their availability. These include medicines and dietary products and also medicinal products, cosmetics and food additives. Dr. Georgios Pandalis lives a secluded life with his family in the village of Glandorf, northern Germany.
Präsidium / Curatorium
Chairman of the Foundation Board:
Prof. Dr. Richard Pott
 Prof. Dr. Richard Pott, born in Tecklenburg/Westphalia in 1951, advises the academy as Chairman of the Foundation Board, in all specialised geo-botanical questions. He concluded his studies at the University of Münster and in 1986 was appointed as Professor to the Chair for Geo-botany at the Institut für Geobotanik at the University of Hanover. Special areas of his research include all areas of historic and applied geo-botany, including particularly ecology of waterways, history of vegetation and sociology of plants as well as the emergence of cultivated landscapes under the influence of human beings.
He is a member of numerous scientific organisations and academies, e.g. a member of the Niedersächsische Akademie für Geowissenschaften since 1993, of the Braunschweigsche Wissenschaftliche Akademie since 2003 and President of the Akademie für Ökologische Landesforschung zu Münster since 2001. In addition, he holds further executive positions: since 1987 President of the Reinhold-Tüxen-Gesellschaft (RTG) and the curatorium of the foundation of the same name, which is the German-speaking association for Vegetation Science in Central Europe, which records scientifically the natural vegetation of Europe. Author of numerous books about the natural vegetation of Central Europe.
Foundation Advisory Council:
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Dr. h.c. Gundolf Keil
 Patron and scientific advisor in all medical-historical questions of the Foundation is Prof. Dr. Dr. Dr. Gundolf Keil (date of birth1934). Following his studies of German, Classical Philology, Geography, Ethnology, Philosophy and Medicine at various German universities he concluded the state examinations for university teachers and the medical state examination. In 1969 he was appointed Professor to the Chair of German at the Royal University of Stockholm. Further achievements in his career include a professorial thesis on the History of Medicine (University of Freiburg i. Br., 1970/71), appointment as provisional Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Marburg (1971) and appointments to the Chairs for the History of Medicine in Marburg, Würzburg and Bonn. Since 1973 Professor Keil has been Director of the Institute for the History of Medicine at the University of Würzburg. Honorary activities in medical and cultural organisations complement his career. Prof. Keil has been awarded numerous distinctions. Recently he received the Bavarian State medal for Social Services (1999), an honorary doctorate from the University of Troppau, Silesia and the Federal Order of Merit („ Bundesverdienstkreuz“) (2003).
Furthermore, Prof. Keil has made a name for himself throughout Europe as an author in the areas History of Medicine, History of Science, History of Literature and Classical Philology.
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