Grand Hospitaller
The Grand Hospitaller's office includes the offices of Minister of Health and of Social Affairs, Minister for Humanitarian Action and Minister for International Co-operation. He co-ordinates and supervises the initiatives of Grand Priories and National Associations and other Order institutions world-wide involved in charitable and humanitarian actions, and ensures that Christian principles are respected.
The Grand Hospitaller is assisted by a Council composed of representatives of the various territorial regions where the Order operates.
Profile of the Grand Hospitaller
H. E. Albrecht Freiherr von BOESELAGER,
Bailiff Grand Cross of Honour and Devotion in Obedience
- He was born on October 4, 1949 in Kreuzberg/Ahr near Bonn. He is married, and has five children.
- He was educated in Bonn at the Jesuit college Aloisiuskolleg and graduated in Law in 1974 after studies in Bonn, Geneva and Freiburg.
- From 1968 to 1970 he served in the military force as reserve lieutenant.
- From 1976 to 1990 he worked as a professional lawyer.
- He was admitted to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta in 1976, and in 1985 became a Knight in Obedience.
- Since 1982 he has been the Chancellor of the German Association of the Order. Since the same year he has also been a member of the Executive Committee of the German Association's Ambulance Corps (Malteser Hilfsdienst).
- He was elected member of the Sovereign Council of the Order of Malta as Grand Hospitaller in 1989, and was reelected in 1994, 1999 and 2004.
- He has been a member of the Papal Council of the Pastoral for Health-Care Operators since 1990 and in the Pontificium Consilium Cor Unum since 1994.