Lothar Zechlin
Lothar Zechlin (born May 4, 1944 in Plön ) is a German university professor for public law and university manager.
Life
After graduating from high school in Wiesbaden in 1963 , he studied law in Marburg, Munich and Bonn and passed the first state examination in 1967 and the second state examination in 1971. In the meantime, he completed postgraduate studies at the University of Nancy in 1968 with a Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures and obtained his doctorate on a comparative commercial law topic at the University of Bonn. Lothar Zechlin is a nephew of the historian Egmont Zechlin and the works pedagogue Ruth Zechlin and great-grandson of the local historian Theodor Zechlin .
Professionally, he initially worked as a research assistant at the University of Hamburg and for two years as press spokesman for the Hamburg Senator for Science, Hansjörg Sinn , before he was appointed to a professorship for public law at the Hamburg University of Economics and Politics (HWP) in 1980. There he was elected to the office of President in 1991 and re-elected in 1997. During this time, the HWP developed in a profile building process from a university of the second educational path to a university for experienced professionals. From 1999 to 2003 he was Rector of the University of Graz and from 2000 Vice President of the Austrian Rectors' Conference for “Planning and Organization”. After his re-election as rector, he renounced a second term of office due to differences of opinion with the university council, which was newly established in the course of the university reform in 2002, and moved to the University of Duisburg-Essen as founding rector in autumn 2003 . Until April 2008, he managed the merger of the two comprehensive universities in Duisburg and Essen into one university. He then worked as a professor for public law at the Institute for Political Science in Duisburg and as a visiting professor at the universities of Witten-Herdecke and Tehran (Iran). In 2012 he retired.
Zechlin headed the Steering Committee of the Institutional Evaluation Program of the European University Association (EUA) until 2015. He is Deputy Chairman of the University Council of the Justus Liebig University in Giessen and continues to teach in the MBA course "University and Science Management" at the University of Osnabrück and within the framework of the Center for Science Management (Speyer). In 2012 he ran for the office of President of the University Rectors' Conference, but was defeated in a runoff election.
Web links
- Homepage of Zechlin at the University of Duisburg-Essen
- Article in the WAZ about Zechlin's retirement
- Press release from the ministry at IDW-Online on his appointment as founding rector with a longer résumé
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rector election as a power struggle of the bodies , Die Presse, May 2, 2003
- ↑ Horst Hippler becomes the highest head of the university , Spiegel Online April 24, 2012
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zechlin, Lothar |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German constitutional lawyer and rector |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 4, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plön |