was elected in 1946 and consisted of 180 seats and four parties. With 104 seats, the Christian Social Union (CSU) had an absolute majority and governed under Minister President Hans Ehard.

Dr. Katja Wildermuth is the first female Director General of Bayerischer Rundfunk and was elected in 2020. She had previously been Programme Director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) since 2019. Her candidacy was supported by a non-partisan group that included the Chairwoman of the BR Board of Directors, Dr Ilse Aigner (CSU). She has worked as a journalist and reporter since 1994. Wildermuth is a board member of the Akademie für Publizistik Hamburg and the EBU Documentary Group (European Broadcasting Group), an international association of public and private broadcasters.

Eva Majuntke has been Legal Counsel at BR since March 2022. She was Legal Counsel at WDR until 2017 before moving to BR and then to the Bavarian State Chancellery at the end of 2019, where she took over as Head of the Media Policy Department. She is currently also Chairwoman of the Board of the non-profit organisation Institut für Urheber- und Medienrecht.

Björn Wilhelm has been Programme Director for Culture since March 2022. He is a trained lawyer and journalist and held a senior position at Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) as Head of the Programme and Portfolio Management Department before taking office.

Thomas Hinrichs has been part of the BR management team as Programme Director Information since May 2014. He previously worked as a journalist for BR and ARD.

Dr Albrecht Frenzl has been Administrative Director since January 2015 and additionally Deputy Director General of BR since March 2022. Frenzl has worked for several broadcasting organisations in the past, including SWR and the directorate of NDR. As a representative of BR, he is a member of the Supervisory Board of Bavaria Film GmbH.

The Administrative Council has seven members. Its responsibilities include promoting the economic and technical development of BR, concluding the service contract with the intendant, and overseeing her management.

Ilse Aigner is president of the Bavarian State Parliament since 2018 and qua office Chairwoman of the BR Administrative Board. She is a member of the governing CSU party. Aigner also holds various board and trustee positions, for example as a member of the TUM University Council, board member of the Economic Advisory Council of the Union e. V. and Donum Vitae Bayern. She is chairwoman of the CSU district association for Upper Bavaria and has been a member of both the Bundestag and the federal government as Minister for Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection.

Jörg Ammon is a member of the Administrative Board since 2022. Ammon's main profession is as a tax consultant and auditor. He is Managing Director of iovos GmbH and iovos consult GmbH. He is also an honorary president of the Bavarian State Sports Association (BLSV). Like Aigner, he is also a member of the board of Donum Vitae Bayern.

Christa Baumgartner is member of the BR Board of Directors since May 2016. Together with her husband, she runs an architecture firm in Nuremberg. Baumgartner had been a member of the BR Broadcasting Council since 2002 before moving to the Administrative Board. She was delegated to this body by the Association of Liberal Professions. Baumgartner is a former board member of the Bavarian Chamber of Architects and chairs the Administrative Board's Building Committee.

Andrea Breit is a lawyer and President of the Bavarian Administrative Court since January 2023 and as such a member of the Administrative Board of the BR by virtue of her office. From 1996 to 1998, Breit was a consultant at the State Ministry of the Interior, from 2001 to 2003 part of the Bavarian State Prosecutor's Office, after which she was appointed to the State Chancellery until she moved to the Bavarian Administrative Court in 2005. There she presided over the 11th Senate from 2013 before being appointed President of the Administrative Court of Munich in 2014.

Peter Hufe has been a member of the Administrative Board since 2009 and heads the Committee for Technology, IT and Multimedia. From 1994 to 2008, he held a seat in the Bavarian state parliament for the SPD, and from 1990 to 2020 he was also a district councillor in the district of Roth. For his commitment, he was honoured with the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and the Bavarian Constitutional Medal in Silver.

Dr Wolfgang Stöckel holds a doctorate in philology and was chairman of the Bavarian Journalists' Association (BJV) from 1993 to 2013. He has been a member of the Administrative Board since May 2017. From 1994 to early 2017, he was a member of the BR Broadcasting Council as a representative of the BJV.

He has worked as an editor, editorial director and press officer, and his many years of association work have given him knowledge and professional experience in the field of media management.

Christoph Dorn is a lawyer and was elected to the Administrative Council by the Broadcasting Council on May 22, 2025. He worked as an auditor, tax advisor, and consultant until 2021. Between 1997 and 2021, he was a partner at Deloitte GmbH and Managing Director of SüdTreu in Munich.

The Broadcasting Council consists of 50 members. Listed here are the chairperson, their deputy, the chairpersons of the committees and their deputies.

Dr. Godehard Ruppert is Chairman of the Broadcasting Council since 2022. At the same time, he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of BRmedia GmbH. Until 2018, Ruppert held the chair for religious education and didactics of religious education at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, of which he was president from 2007 to 2020. 

Simone Fleischmann has been Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Council since 2022. She is President of the Bavarian Teachers' Association and represents the interests and concerns of her delegating organisation.

Klaus Holetschek is a member of the Broadcasting Council and also chairman of the Committee for Fundamental Issues and Media Policy. He is a member of the Bavarian State Parliament, where he holds a seat for the CSU. 

Dieter Breit is a member of the Broadcasting Council and serves as deputy chair of the Committee for Fundamental Issues and Media Policy. He was appointed to the Broadcasting Council by the Protestant Church, where he represents the concerns and interests of the Protestant church communities in Bavaria. 

Dr. Rudolf Neumaier is member of the Broadcasting Council and holds the chair of the Programming Committee at the Bayerrischer Rundfunk (BR). He is Managing Director of the Bavarian State Association for Heritage Preservation (Bayerischer Landesverein für Heimatpflege e.V.) whose interests he represents in the Council. 

Ilse Danziger is deputy chair of the programme committee. Danziger is chair of the Jewish Community of Regensburg and represents the interests and concerns of the Jewish community. 

Klothilde Schmöller is deputy Chair of the Committee for Economics and Finance. Schmöller was sent to the Broadcasting Council by the Bavarian State Sports Association.