List of personalities at the University of Mannheim
This list includes people who teach or have taught at the University of Mannheim or are otherwise connected to the university.
Teachers by discipline at the University of Mannheim
Business administration
- Elisabeth Altmann-Gottheiner - women's rights activist
- Jannis Bischof - Chair for general business administration and corporate accounting
- Wolfgang Bühler - Chair of Financing
- Erwin Dichtl - Chair for Marketing
- Hermann G. Ebner - Chair for Business Education
- Peter Eichhorn - Chair for Public Business Administration
- Eduard Gaugler - Chair of Human Resources
- Manfred N. Geist - Chair at the Seminar for Marketing Management
- Wolfgang Gerke - Chair of Banking Management
- Markus Glaser - Chair of Financing
- Claus E. Heinrich - Labor Director of SAP AG , honorary professor for logistics
- Hans-Olaf Henkel - Honorary Professorship for International Management, President of the Leibniz Association
- Hans-Jörg Hoitsch
- Christian Homburg - Chair for Marketing
- Gösta B. Ihde - Chair of Logistics, especially Transport Management, First named logistics chair in Germany (1971)
- Otto H. Jacobs - Chair of Taxation, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Ernst & Young Germany
- Alfred Kieser - Chair for Organization
- Gert von Kortzfleisch - Chair of Industrial Management, member of the Club of Rome
- Sabine Kuester - Chair for Marketing
- Walter Le Coutre - important representative of the static balance theory
- Ulrich Lichtenthaler - Chair for Organization
- August Marx - Chair of Human Resources
- Ernst Maug - Chair of Corporate Finance
- Helmut Merkel - honorary professor for business informatics, former CEO of KarstadtQuelle Warenhaus AG
- Peter Milling - Chair at the industrial seminar, co-author of the study The Limits to Growth
- Joachim Niedereichholz - Chair for Information Systems
- Walter A. Oechsler - Chair for Personnel
- Manfred Perlitz - Chair for International Management
- Fritz Philipp - Chair of Banking Management
- Hans Raffée - Chair of Marketing
- Curt Sandy
- Christoph Schneeweiß - Chair for Operations Research
- Jürgen M. Schneider - Dean of the Business Administration Faculty (former student and former board member of Bilfinger Berger )
- Ulrich Schreiber - Chair for Taxation
- Dirk Simons - Chair for General Business Administration and Accounting
- Franz Steffens - Chair of Information Systems
- Daniel Veit - Chair of Information Systems
- Martin Weber - Chair of Banking Management
- Jens Wüstemann - Chair of Auditing
Economics
- Axel Börsch-Supan - Director MEA
- Wolfgang Franz - “ Economist ” and President of the ZEW Mannheim
- Hans Peter Grüner - Chair for Economic Policy
- Martin Hellwig - Chair of Economic Theory, Fellow of the Econometric Society
- Wilhelm Rall - management consultant, lecturer at economics
- Horst Siebert - Chair of Economics and Foreign Trade, later Professor in Konstanz and Kiel
- Michèle Tertilt - Chair of Macro and Development Economics
- Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden - Chair of Economic Theory, former Rector of the University of Mannheim
- Roland Vaubel - Chair for Economic Policy, Monetary Policy and Currency Policy
- Eberhard Wille - Chair for Planning and Administration of Public Economy
Social sciences
- Hans Albert - philosopher and sociologist
- Hanna Bäck - political scientist, 2007–2011 junior professor, since 2011 external fellow at the MZES
- Herbert Bless - Social Psychology
- Michael Bosnjak - Honorary Professor, Team Leader GESIS Panel
- Marc Debus - Political Scientist, Chair of Comparative Government
- Jan van Deth - political scientist Descartes Prize winner
- Bernhard Ebbinghaus - macro sociologist
- Edgar Erdfelder - psychologist
- Hartmut Esser - microsociologist
- Peter Flora - macro sociologist
- Markus Gangl - statistician and sociologist
- Martin Irle - social psychologist
- Egbert Jahn - political scientist and contemporary historian
- Peter Graf Kielmansegg - political scientist, contemporary historian and Schader Prize winner
- Beate Kohler-Koch - political scientist
- Mario Rainer Lepsius - sociologist
- Walter Müller - sociologist
- Wolfgang C. Müller - sociologist
- Heinz-Herbert Noll - sociologist
- Franz Urban Pappi - political scientist
- Berthold Rittberger - political scientist
- Franz Rothenbacher - sociologist
- Klaus Schönhoven - political scientist and contemporary historian
- Norbert Schwarz - social psychologist, winner of the Wilhelm Wundt Medal
- Otto Selz - psychologist and philosopher, recipient of the Wilhelm Wundt Medal,
- Fritz Strack - social psychologist, winner of the Wilhelm Wundt Medal,
- Hermann Weber - political scientist and contemporary historian
- Rudolf Wildenmann - political scientist
- Werner W. Wittmann - psychologist, founder of German evaluation research
- Wolfgang Zapf - sociologist
law Sciences
- Hans-Wolfgang Arndt - former rector of the University of Mannheim
- Andy Becht - State Secretary in the Rhineland-Palatinate Ministry of Economics, Transport, Agriculture and Viticulture
- Georg Bitter - Chair of Civil Law, Banking and Capital Markets Law, Insolvency Law
- Oliver Brand - Chair of Civil Law, Private Insurance Law, Business Law and Comparative Law
- Gerd Brudermüller - Palandt author for a branch of family law
- Hans Joachim Faller - former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court (honorary professor)
- Juliane Kokott - constitutional lawyer
- Thomas Puhl - Chair for Public Law and Tax Law, Rector of the University of Mannheim
- Gerd Roellecke - legal philosopher
- Wolf-Rüdiger Schenke - constitutional lawyer
- Bernd Schünemann - teacher of criminal law
- Helmut Steinberger - former judge at the Federal Constitutional Court
- Jochen Taupitz - Member of the National Ethics Council
- Rudolf Weber-Fas , Chair for Public Law and Political Science as well as German and International Tax Law, ehm. Judge at the Federal Fiscal Court
Humanities
- Rainer Albert - numismatist
- Kai Brodersen - historian
- Heinrich Chantraine - historian (1929–2002)
- Harald Delius - Analytical Philosopher
- Eva Eckkrammer - Chair for Romance Linguistics and Media Studies
- Philipp Gassert - Historian, Chair of Contemporary History
- Werner Hoffmann (philologist) - Medieval Germanist (expert on the Nibelungenlied )
- Jochen Hörisch - media scientist
- Angela Keppler - Media Sociologist, Department of Media and Communication Studies
- Matthias Kohring - communication scientist , department of media and communication studies
- Lothar Kreimendahl - philosopher
- Karl-Friedrich Krieger - Historian, Chair of Medieval History
- Christian Mann - Historian, Chair of Ancient History
- Klaus-Jürgen Matz - Historian, Chair of Modern and Contemporary History
- Johannes Müller-Lancé - Romanist
- Cornelia Ruhe - Romance Studies, Chair for Romance Literature and Media Studies
- Rainer Specht - philosopher
- Peter Steinbach - Historian, Chair of Contemporary History
- Angelika Storrer - Chair of German Linguistics
- Rosemarie Tracy - Linguist, Chair of English Linguistics
- Ursula Wolf - philosopher
geography
- Ingrid Dörrer - Chair for Physical Geography and Area Studies
- Peter Frankenberg - Chair of Physical Geography and Regional Geography, Science Minister of the State of Baden-Württemberg, Rector
- Paul Gans - Geographer, Chair of Economic Geography. Co-editor of the Geographische Rundschau
- Gudrun Höhl - Chair for Physical Geography and Area Studies
- Christoph Jentsch - geographer, Afghanistan - and high mountain expert, long-time director of the Geographical Institute
- Thomas Ott - geographer, GIS expert and founder of OAGIS. Chair of Economic Geography
- Peter Rothe - Chair of Geology
Mathematics and computer science
- Reinhard Männer - Head of the Chair of Computer Science V
- Peter Fischer - Chair, Circuit Technology and Simulation
- Ulrich Brüning - Chair of Computer Architecture
- Karl Heinz Brenner - Chair for Optoelectronics
- Essam Baddredin - Chair of Automation
- Norbert Fliege - Chair of Electrical Engineering
- Guido Moerkotte - Chair for Practical Computer Science (Database Systems)
- Wolfgang Effelsberg - Chair for Practical Computer Science IV (Computer Networks and Multimedia Technology)
- Matthias Krause - Chair for Theoretical Computer Science
- Colin Atkinson - Chair of Software Engineering
- Gabriele Steidl - Chair for Applied Mathematics and Computer Science
- Felix Freiling - Chair for Practical Computer Science I
- Mila Majster-Cederbaum - Chair for Practical Computer Science II (parallel programming languages and specification of parallel systems)
- Franz Stetter - Chair for Operating Systems
- Heiner Stuckenschmidt - Chair for Artificial Intelligence
- Christian Bizer - Chair for Information Systems V
Others
- Dieter Anhuf - Professor of Physical Geography ( University of Passau ), habilitation in Mannheim
- Norbert Bolz - communication theorist
- Clemens Börsig , former chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Bank (student, doctoral candidate, doctorate 1975)
- Rolf Elgeti , former star banker and real estate investor
- Waltraud Fritsch-Rößler - Medievalist, Professor at the University of Innsbruck
- Wolfgang Fritz - Professor of Marketing at the TU Braunschweig
- Florian Gerster - politician and former head of the Federal Labor Office (former student of business administration, psychology)
- Barbara Hahn - geographer, qualified as a professor in Mannheim, now professor at the University of Würzburg
- Klaus Hildebrand - historian
- Alan Hippe - former board member of Thyssen Krupp AG (former student and assistant)
- Rainer Hüther , former CEO of German Sports Television (DSF) (former student)
- Martin Kappas - Professor of Geography ( University of Göttingen ), doctorate and habilitation in Mannheim
- Friedhelm Köhler , psychologist and management consultant, studied at the University of Mannheim
- Heinz König - First President of ZEW and pioneer of econometrics in Germany
- Sebastian Lentz - Professor of Geography and Geographical Studies ( University of Leipzig ), doctorate and habilitation in Mannheim
- Rainer Loose - Chair for historical geography and historical regional studies at the Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim , now senior archive director at the Stuttgart regional archive directorate
- Carolin Lüdemann - well-known business coach and etiquette expert from radio and television
- Werner Müller - former CEO of Evonik (formerly RAG AG ) and former Federal Minister of Economics (former student of economics)
- Hugo Müller-Vogg - former co-editor of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (former student of economics and political science).
- Gitanas Nausėda , Lithuanian President (former PhD student)
- Christophe Neff - geographer, Mediterranean expert and fire ecologist . Studied, earned his doctorate, taught and researched at the former Geographical Institute of the University of Mannheim. Is now a lecturer and scientist at the University of Karlsruhe .
- Wolfgang Pföhler - former CEO of Rhön-Klinikum AG (former student)
- Stefan Rebenich - historian
- Christine Reinle - historian
- Bruno Sälzer - former CEO of HUGO BOSS AG (former student and assistant)
- Isabel Schnabel - member of the ECB board of directors and professor for financial market economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , studied and doctorate in Mannheim
- Alexander Selent - Deputy CEO of Fuchs Petrolub (former student and assistant)
- Alexander Siegmund - Chair of Geographic Didactics at the Heidelberg University of Education . Studied and obtained his doctorate at the University of Mannheim
- Hans-Werner Sinn - President of the Ifo Institute Munich (formerly PhD & Habilitation in Economics)
- Helmut F. Spinner - philosopher (former student of business administration, professor of philosophy)
- Stephan Sturm - Chief Financial Officer Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA (former student)
- Manuel Theisen - Professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich
- Heinrich Vetter - entrepreneur (former student)
- Hubertus von Amelunxen - art historian
- Erich Zahn - Prof. of the ABWL at the University of Stuttgart and co-author of the study The Limits to Growth (former doctorate & habilitation at the University of Mannheim)
- Klaus F. Zimmermann - President of the German Institute for Economic Research
- Klaus Zimmermann - Romance studies at the University of Bremen, studies and doctorate in Mannheim (1976)