Dieter Timmermann

Dieter Timmermann, 2004

Dieter Timmermann (born July 16, 1943 in Friedrichsdorf, Stargard / Mecklenburg district ) is a German education economist, education planner and former rector of Bielefeld University . On December 1, 2011 he was elected President of the German Student Union.

Life

Dieter Timmermann attended elementary school in Emden , the Ulrich-Gymnasium von Norden (East Friesland) and the modern-language Friedrich-Ebert-Gymnasium in Bonn , where he passed his Abitur in 1962. This was followed by a degree in economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Bonn, which Timmermann graduated in April 1968 with a degree in economics . From 1968 to 1974 he worked as a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin ; there Timmermann received his doctorate rer. pole. In April 1974 he became a research assistant at Bielefeld University. In 1977 he received a one-year research grant from the German Academic Exchange Service for the USA , which he held at the Department of Economics and the School of Economics at Stanford University . With his work on Prosperity and Depression of Higher Education: Some Theoretical and Empirical Considerations with Respect to the US , Dieter Timmermann completed his habilitation in 1979 and received the venia legendi for Educational Economics and Educational Planning. In 1979 he was appointed lecturer and in 1982 professor for the field of educational planning and educational economics at Bielefeld University. Timmermann was Vice Rector for Teaching, Student Affairs and Continuing Education from 1996 to 2001 and Rector of Bielefeld University since 2001. After being re-elected in July 2004, he was succeeded by Gerhard Sagerer in October 2009 as rector.

Dieter Timmermann is married and has two children.

Act

Dieter Timmermann is editor of the contributions to the Educational Planning and Economics of Education (in Frankfurt , New York , Bern and Paris ), co-editor of the series value in Bremen and Bielefeld series Science-practice dialogue vocational education . He is a member of the Association for Social Policy and the German Society for Educational Science .

Timmermann's main areas of work include education and employment, efficiency in the education system, control problems in the education system and in the education system, and school development planning.

From 2001 to 2004, Dieter Timmermann was the chairman of the Federal Government-funded Expert Commission on Financing of Lifelong Learning and advised the OECD , GTZ and various ministries.

In his tenure, the conversion of the programs fell to the consecutive Bachelor and Master degrees ( see: Bologna process ) and the - also at the University of Bielefeld - associated with protests introduction of tuition fees for the winter semester 2007/08.

In addition, during Timmermann's second term in office, Bielefeld University was successful in teaching two projects in October 2007 in the Excellence Initiative and in October 2009 in the Excellence Initiative funding program .

Timmermann has been President of the German Student Union since the beginning of 2012 . On December 4, 2013 he was confirmed in office for a second term (2014/15). Timmermann has also been chairman of the University Council of the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg since 2016 .

Web links

• Website at Bielefeld University

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dieter Timmermann elected President of the German Student Union ( Memento from July 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ [1] website of uni-protocol.de, the address for training, studies and work . Retrieved February 10, 2010.
3. ^ [2] Website of Bielefeld University. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
4. ^ Archive link ( Memento from January 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the Stifterverband. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
5. ↑ Dieter Timmermann also President of the German Student Union in 2014/2015 ( Memento from February 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive )