Universität Hamburg's University Council has nine honorary members, four of them appointed by the Academic Senate and four by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. Together these elect a ninth member and name a chairperson.
The Council is largely responsible for the strategic control of the University. In addition to electing and voting out of University President and Kanzler the University Council also oversees the authorization of business plans as well as the acceptance of the presidium's annual reports.
In its constituent meeting on 3 May 2012 the University Council reelected the Physician and former director of DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchroton) Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Abrecht Wagner as chairman and Maria von Welser as deputy chairwoman.
The University Council provides University members with regular updates on all topics and results of its meetings.
Members of the University Council
Current University Council members:
- Prof. Dr. Günter Huber, laser physicist at Universität Hamburg's Institute of Laser Physics, awarded with the EPS Quantum Electronics Prize; fellow of the Optical Society of America
- Prof. Dr. Ursula Platzer, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf (UKE), Director of the Clinic for Restorative and Preventive Dentistry
- Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster,
Chair of Artificial Intelligence at the Computer Science Department of Saarland University; CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in
Saarbrücken, Kaiserslautern, Bremen and Berlin; winner of the German Future Prize in 2001; member of the German Research Union
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Rüdiger Wolfrum,
Director of the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg; Vice President of the Max Planck Society; President of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS); since 2002 honorary professor of the School of Law at Univeristät Hamburg
Die vom Hamburger Senat bestimmten Mitglieder sind:
- Maria von Welser,
ehemalige Direktorin des NDR-Landesfunkhauses in Hamburg,
stellvertretende Vorsitzende UNICEF Deutschland und Lehrbeauftragte an
der WISO Fakultät der Universität Hamburg,
- Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erika Fischer-Lichte,
Theaterwissenschaftlerin an der Freien Universität Berlin mit
zahlreichen Gastprofessuren in den USA in Japan u.a.. Sie ist Mitglied
der Göttinger Akademie der Wissenschaften, der Academia Europaea, der
Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie und der Nationalen Akademie der
Wissenschaften Leopoldina,
- Johann C. Lindenberg,
ehemaliger Vorsitzender der Geschäftsführung der Unilever Deutschland
GmbH und Vorsitzender des Landeskuratoriums Hamburg/Schleswig Holstein
des Stifterverbandes für die Deutsche Wissenschaft sowie
- Dr. Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast,
Journalistin, Parlamentarische Staatssekretärin a.D., ehemaliges
Mitglied des Bundestags und Vorsitzende des Innenausschusses.
Der Physiker und ehemalige
Direktor des Deutschen Elektronen Synchrotrons (DESY) Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Abrecht Wagner wurde von den Mitgliedern des Hochschulrats als neuntes Mitglied bestimmt und zum Vorsitzenden gewählt.
University Council reports since 2012
University Council reports since 2012:
Joint statements of University Council and Presidium 2008 bis 2011
Joint Statements of University Council and Presidium 2008 bis 2011:
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 33, 15 September 2011
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 32, 24 May 2011
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 31, 22 February 2011
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 30, 19 November 2010
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 29, 28 September 2010
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 28, 5 May 2010
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 27, 11 March 2010
- Joint statements on University Council meeting 24, 22 April 2009
- Joint Statements on University Council meeting 23, 10 February 2009
- Joint Statements on University Council meeting 22, 1 December 2008
- Joint Statements on University Council meeting 20, 29 December 2008
- Joint Statements on University Council meeting 19, 2 June 2008
