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University Council

Members of the university council:

Current members of the Senate: List of Senators

Ten personalities from science and culture and in particular from business and professional practice. These are for the current term of office:

  • Prof. Dr. Mechthild Dreyer
    Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Philosophy
  • Prof. Dorothee Dzwonnek
    Former State Secretary
  • Prof. Dr. Jörg Hacker
    Former President of the Leopoldina, the German national academy of sciences
     
  • Dr. Wilhelm Krull
    Former Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation, Founding Director of the Thinktank The New Institute in Hamburg
     
  • Dr.-Ing. Stefan Möhringer
    Managing Director of Simon Möhringer Anlagenbau, Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Würzburg-Schweinfurt
  • Prof. Dr. Hans-Christian Pape
    President of Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation
  • Prof. Dr. Eberhard Umbach
    Former President of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
     
  • Prof. Dr. Dorothea Wagner
    Professor of Informatics at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, former Chairwoman of the German Science and Humanities Council (WR)
  • Prof. Dr. Margret Wintermantel - Chairwoman of the University Council

    Former President of the German Academic Exchange Service

  • Dr.-Ing. E.h. Manfred Wittenstein
    Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Wittenstein SE

The University Council:

  • decides the basic order and their change by statute, as well as over requests after art. 106 exp. 2 Bay. Higher Education Act,
  • elects the President and decides on their deselection,
  • elects the other members of the university management, with the exception of the chancellor, and decides on their deselection,
  • decides on proposals for the appointment of the chancellor after nomination of suitable persons by the university management,
  • decides on the university's development plan drawn up by the Extended University Administration,
  • decides on proposals for the division of the university into faculties at the request of the Extended University Administration,
  • decides on the establishment, modification and cancellation of study programmes,
  • comments on the establishment, alteration or cancellation of scientific and artistic institutions as well as operating units by the university management,
  • shall give its opinion on the estimates relating to the State budget or the draft economic plan,
  • receives the President's report and may deliberate on it,
  • determines the corporate budget,
  • administrates the other duties assigned to it by law or by virtue of any statute,
  • is consulted before the conclusion of target agreements with the state and determines for the university the achievement of the targets specified in these target agreements.