List of the rectors and presidents of the University of Hamburg

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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
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
Peter Fischer-Appelt 1970 1991
Jürgen Lüthje 1991 2006
Monika Auweter-Kurtz 2006 2009
Dieter Lenzen 2010

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