ITS Staff Structure
The International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen employs a staff of 297 (78 per cent female, 22 per cent male). That number includes four office management trainees.
Two percent of all ITS positions are held by staff members who are currently on parental leave or on fixed-term pension due to limits in their ability to work and for whom no replacement was appointed. Eight members of staff are of the following nationalities: Belgian, French, Italian, Polish, Austrian or Portuguese.
The ITS is subject to the wage agreement for employees of the armed forces stationed on Federal Republic of Germany territory TV AL II.
Status: January 2012
Portraits
The people responsible for the individual departments of the International Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen are:
Dr. Jean-Luc Blondel,
Director
Djordje Drndarski,
Vice-Director and Head of Archives
Kathrin Flor,
Head of Communication
Susanne Siebert,
Head of Humanitarian Requests
Dr. Susanne Urban,
Head of Research
Michael Schmid,
Head of Administration