List of the rectors and presidents of the University of Hamburg
The list of rectors and presidents of the University of Hamburg includes all persons who have held the office of rector (until 1969) or president (since 1970) since the University of Hamburg was founded in 1919 .
Rectors (1919 to 1970)
Surname | from | to |
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Karl Rathgen | 1919 | 1920 |
Georg Thilenius | 1920 | 1921 |
Hermann Kümmell | 1921 | 1922 |
Otto Lauffer | 1922 | 1923 |
Emil Wolff (English studies) | 1923 | 1924 |
Rudolf Laun | 1924 | 1926 |
Bernhard Nocht | 1926 | 1927 |
Wilhelm Blaschke | 1927 | 1928 |
Heinrich Sieveking | 1928 | 1929 |
Ernst Cassirer | 1929 | 1930 |
Ludolph Brewer | 1930 | 1931 |
Albert Wigand (meteorologist) | 1931 | 1932 |
Leo Raape | 1932 | 1933 |
Eberhard Schmidt (legal scholar) | 1933 | 1934 |
Adolf Rein | 1934 | 1938 |
Wilhelm Gundert | 1938 | 1941 |
Eduard Keeser | 1941 | 1945 |
Emil Wolff (English studies) | 1945 | 1947 |
Rudolf Laun | 1947 | 1948 |
Paul Harteck | 1948 | 1950 |
Arthur Jores | 1950 | 1951 |
Bruno Snell | 1951 | 1953 |
Eduard Bötticher | 1953 | 1954 |
Albert Kolb | 1954 | 1956 |
Karl Schiller | 1956 | 1958 |
Ernst Georg Nauck | 1958 | 1959 |
Otto Brunner | 1959 | 1960 |
Helmut Thielicke | 1960 | 1961 |
Rudolf Sieverts | 1961 | 1963 |
Emanuel Sperner | 1963 | 1965 |
Karl-Heinz Schäfer (medical doctor) | 1965 | 1967 |
Werner Ehrlicher (economist) | 1967 | 1969 |
Hansjörg Sinn | 1969 | 1970 |
Presidents (since 1970)
Surname | from | to |
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Peter Fischer-Appelt | 1970 | 1991 |
Jürgen Lüthje | 1991 | 2006 |
Monika Auweter-Kurtz | 2006 | 2009 |
Dieter Lenzen | 2010 |