Godehard Ruppert

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Godehard Ruppert (born November 6, 1953 in Beuel near Bonn ) is President of the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg and President of the Bavarian Virtual University .

Life

After graduating from the Humanist Gymnasium in Bochum , Ruppert studied philosophy , Catholic theology , pedagogy and journalism at the Ruhr University in Bochum , at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and at the University of Würzburg from 1974 to 1979 . In 1984 he was at the University of Würzburg Dr. theol. doctorate , in 1990 he completed his habilitation at the University of Hanover as Dr. phil. habil. From 1979 to 1984 he was a research assistant, from 1984 to 1991 research assistant and in 1991 for a short time university lecturer at the Faculty of Education at the University of Hanover. Part-time he taught at a secondary school in Hanover from 1986 to 1990 and at a vocational school in Hildesheim from 1990 to 1991. In 1991 he took over the chair for religious education and didactics of religious instruction at the Otto Friedrich University in Bamberg. His main research interests are didactics of church history, historical religious education and the history of education. In addition to university political activities and functions, he is active in numerous public associations; he is u. a. Deputy Chairman of the Bavarian Broadcasting Council .

Godehard Ruppert is married to Rita Walker-Ruppert, a teacher in the special needs school, and has three children. He lives in Frensdorf near Bamberg.

University policy

After a term of office as vice dean and dean , Ruppert was re-elected in 1996 under the canon lawyer Alfred Hierold vice-rector of the university and in this office in 1998. In addition, he served as a board member of the theological faculty convention for one term. In 2000 Ruppert was elected rector of the university in the second ballot and was confirmed in office in 2003 for the period up to 2008 without opposing candidacy. As a result of the amendment to the Bavarian Higher Education Act and a change in the university's constitution, he has been President since June 15, 2007. He was confirmed in this office in November 2007 in the first ballot for a term until 2012. In May 2011 and February 2017 he was re-elected for a six-year term each time. Since October 2019 he has been the longest-serving president of a German university.

Structural reforms took place at the University of Bamberg under the aegis of Ruppert. In this context, the university received a non-university research institute of the Leibniz Association , which has been the sponsor of the National Education Panel since January 1, 2014. The university regards the approval of a graduate school as part of the German Excellence Initiative in 2012 as a success of the structural reform .

When Ruppert took office as rector, he was elected a member of the board of directors of the Virtual University of Bavaria. Since 2002 he has been president of this association of Bavarian universities of applied sciences and universities; In 2006, 2010, 2014 and 2018 he was confirmed in this office for a four-year term.

In April 2012, Ruppert ran for President of the University Rectors' Conference (HRK) against Horst Hippler , Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, and Lothar Zechlin , University of Duisburg-Essen. The Tagesspiegel saw Ruppert's application as “not having a lot of opportunities”, as he was considered “controversial” as chairman of the umbrella association of Bavarian universities. In fact, Ruppert withdrew his candidacy after the first ballot; in the second, Hippler prevailed against Zechlin. The Süddeutsche commented on Ruppert's failure with the words: “At the same time, Ruppert pushed for an impressive profile development in Bamberg with strong humanities. Even student representatives with whom he had to fight small wars describe him as 'a university manager in a positive way'. Making the university 'weatherproof' is more important than creating 'lighthouses that stand lonely in the landscape,' said Ruppert with a view to the excellence competition. "

Other university political functions:

honors and awards

Publications

  • Rothenfels Castle. A contribution to the history of the youth movement and its influence on the Catholic Church (= Rothenfelser Schriften 5), Rothenfels 1979
  • History is present. A contribution to a didactic theory of church history, Hildesheim 1984
  • Access to church history. Draft of an elementary propaedeutic for religious educators (= theory and practice 34), Hanover 1991
  • Quickborn - Catholic and youthful. A contribution to the history of the impact of the Catholic youth movement (= Z dziejów kultury chrześcijańskiej na Śląsku 17), Opole 1999
  • Articles in edited volumes, magazines and encyclopedias.
  • Editor of publications from the university, a. a. "uni.kat" and "uni.vers", as edited volumes: Humanities in profile. Speeches on the Dies Academicus from 2000–2007, Bamberg 2008 and Bamberg Feuilleton 2009. Contributions by Bamberg scientists in the German-language press, Bamberg 2009.
  • Co-author of publications of the University Rectors ' Conference: "Key questions for university strategies on information and communication structure" (2006), the HRK position paper on academic further education (2008) and the HRK handouts "Challenges Web 2.0" (2010).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. https://www.uni-bamberg.de/news/artikel/wiederwahl-ruppert/
  2. http://www.uni-bamberg.de/kommunikation/news/artikel/neps_leibniz_institut/
  3. http://www.uni-bamberg.de/kommunikation/news/artikel/exzellenz/
  4. [1] Tagesspiegel from April 23, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2016
  5. HRK Wahl , Spiegel Online - Unispiegel, accessed on February 14, 2016
  6. Success of the Elite , Süddeutsche Zeitung of April 24, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2012
  7. Honor for Godehard Ruppert , press release in: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft from February 3, 2010, accessed on February 4, 2010
  8. Bavarian Janus for Godehard Ruppert , Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 7, 2015, accessed on May 8, 2015