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The Hochschullehrerbund e. V. (abbreviation: hlb ) is the professional association of professors and professors at German universities of applied sciences / polytechnics . The seat of the association and its federal office is Bonn.

overview

With over 7,100 members, the Hochschullehrerbund is the association of professors at German universities of applied sciences / universities of applied sciences. It represents the interests of its members towards federal and state legislators, authorities and courts, other associations and the public. The association also offers its members various services, such as advice on legal and contractual matters, salary issues, and pensions. He grants them free legal protection and service liability insurance. The association is a member of the European University Association (EUA) .

The Hochschullehrerbund publishes the magazine Die Neue Hochschule (DNH) .

The highest decision-making body of the hlb is the annual federal delegate assembly, to which the regional associations send their delegates. The governing body of the federal association is the Federal Presidium. It consists of the President and a minimum of three and a maximum of five Vice-Presidents, each with their own main areas of responsibility.

organization structure

Bureau

The current president is Nicolai Müller-Bromley , Professor of Public Law at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences . Vice-presidents are Olga Rösch, Technical University Wildau , Jochen Struwe , University Trier , Ali Reza Samanpour, University of Applied Sciences South Westphalia and Franz-Xaver Boos , University of Hof .

Regional associations

The hlb is divided into member associations at state level, which basically act politically independently. The regional associations are members of the federal association, which, as the umbrella organization, represents the interests of university lecturers at the federal level.

history

Foundation and nationwide expansion

The Hochschullehrerbund emerged from the Association of Lecturers at German Engineering Schools (VDDI), which was founded in Berlin-Charlottenburg by the statutes of June 10, 1960. With the conversion of all higher technical schools, to which the engineering schools belonged, into technical colleges , the desire arose to create a professional association for the professors of these academic institutions.

On May 27, 1972, the delegates' assembly of the VDDI Federal Association therefore adopted a statute according to which the regional associations (LV) were to be converted into a new federal association called Hochschullehrerbund - Bundesvereinigung e. V. to be transferred. All state associations except Rhineland-Palatinate and Baden-Württemberg took part in this transition. In these two federal states, the lecturers organized themselves in the Association of Universities and Science (VHW), which belongs to the German Association of Civil Servants.

Günther Ehmann from North Rhine-Westphalia, formerly VDDI vice-president, was the founding president of the university teachers association. At the same time, the headquarters of the hlb was relocated from Berlin to Bonn.

The LV Rheinland-Pfalz was founded on April 18, 1972 and the LV Baden-Württemberg on March 19, 1989.

Organizational development

On June 14, 1972, the German University Association (DHV), the professional representation of professors at German universities, and the University Teachers Association, representing professors at German universities of applied sciences, founded a University Working Group (AGH) as a politically independent union and professional representation of university teachers at the federal level known. However, the AGH was dissolved again in June 1981 after achieving the political goal of being recognized at the federal level as a central association had to be viewed as hopeless. A corresponding application failed both with the Federal Minister of the Interior and in court.

In 1983, the FHB University Teachers' Association was accepted as a new member association, in which only university teachers from the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration (FHB) are organized. Although outside of the typical hlb organization, it is on an equal footing with the regional associations. The FHB serves the training of federal civil servants of the non-technical high service. By resolution of its general assembly on October 29, 1994, the hlb-FHB was dissolved again.

In 1994, the presidium, consisting of the chairmen of the regional associations, was replaced by the assembly of delegates, which meets once a year. The previous Executive Presidium has been replaced by a new body - the Federal Presidium - which consists of the President and initially three and later up to five Vice-Presidents. With this amendment to the statutes, the formation of opinions at the federal level should be placed on a broader basis, democratic elements between the federal association and the regional associations should be strengthened and the work of the board of directors should be optimized through departmental responsibilities.

List of HLB presidents

Development of the office

In 1973 the Presidium decided to set up an office in Bonn. The interpreter Ruth Storsberg was hired as managing director. The managing director Ruth Storsberg will retire on December 31, 1989. As of August 1, 1989, Hubert Mücke , who had already started working for the hlb as a research assistant a year earlier, was given full-time management.

In 2000, a second office was set up in Berlin as a contact point for political decision-makers in federal politics and as a meeting place for hlb committees. The seat was at the Technical University of Applied Sciences Berlin, the later Beuth University of Technology . It had to be closed on December 31, 2012 due to the increasing space requirements of the Beuth University.

publication

The organ of the Hochschullehrerbund is the magazine Die Neue Hochschule - magazine for applied science and art . It is the successor to the periodical Die Deutsche Ingenieurschule , which has been published by Resch-Verlag, Graefelfing, since 1959. The title change takes place with issue 52 in 1971. Since 1994 the hlb has been self-publishing the magazine.

Editor of the journal Die Neue Hochschule :

Since 1996 the hlb -Bundesvereinigung e. V. Editor of the journal Die Neue Hochschule . Editor-in-chief:

Cooperations

On March 15, 2002, the university teachers' association and the trade union for the University and Science Association (vhw) in the German Association of Civil Servants concluded a cooperation agreement.

On April 24, 2008, associations and associations of students and teaching staff in Berlin came together to form a university alliance that demands that political decision-makers strengthen research and teaching. Members of the university alliance: Federal Association of Liberal University Groups (LHG), the Ring of Christian-Democratic Students (RCDS), Thesis - Interdisciplinary Network for Doctoral Candidates, the Federal Representation of Academic Middle Ages (BAM), the Association of Universities and Science (vhw), the Association of University Teachers (hlb), the Förderverein Juniorprofessur eV, the German University Association (DHV) and the German Student Union (DSW).

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  1. ↑ Manifesto: Put an end to the chronic underfunding of universities