At the general meeting on March 21, 2019, Ina Bimberg was bidden farewell as 1st chairperson. With his election as 1st chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalia regional group of the Association of German Landscape Architects, Thomas Dietrich from the Oberhausen planner group, landscape architect from Essen, now takes over this task. Andreas Winter, landscape architect from Bielefeld, was elected to the office of 2nd Chairman OWL. The new spokesperson for open space planning is Isabella di Medici.