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University Council of Universität Hamburg

Universität Hamburg's University Council has nine honorary members, four appointed by the Academic Senate and four by the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. These eight members elect a ninth member as well as a chairperson and deputy chair from among the non-University members.

The Council is largely responsible for the strategic control of the University. In addition to electing the University President and Kanzler , the University Council authorizes business plans and accepts the Executive University Board's annual reports.

In its constituent meeting on 3 May 2012, the University Council reelected the physicist and former director of DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchroton)  Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Abrecht Wagner as chair.

The University Council regularly updates University members on all topics and results of its meetings.

Members of the University Council

University Council members from Universität Hamburg include:

  • Prof. Dr. Alexander Bassen, professor of business administration, in particular capital markets and management. Prof. Dr. Bassen is head of the Center for a Sustainable University (KNU). He is also member of the federal government's German Council for Sustainable Development.
  • Prof. Dr. Ursula Platzer, former senior professor for health economics at the Hamburg Center for Health Economics, former director of the polyclinic 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. Olaf Köller, professor of educational research, managing scientific director and head of the Department of Educational Research at the Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)

The members selected by the Senate of Hamburg are:

  • Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Erika Fischer-Lichte, theater studies at Freie Universität Berlin, numerous visiting professorships in the USA, Japan, etc. Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Academia Europaea, the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Dr. Cornelie Sonntag-Wolgast, journalist, former parliamentary state secretary, former member of the German Federal Assembly and chair of the Committee on Internal Affairs
  • Professor Dr Petra Wend PhD FRSA FRSE, Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
  • Dr. Michael Heller, member of  the OTTO management board of categories and deputy spokesman for OTTO

The members of the University Council selected the physicist and former director of DESY (Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron) Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Abrecht Wagner as their ninth member and chairman.

University Council reports since 2012

University Council reports since 2012 (available only in German language):

Joint statements from the University Council and Executive University Board 2008–2011

Joint Statements from the University Council and Executive University Board 2008–2011:

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