Rectors and Presidents of the University of Hamburg
Rectors and presidents of the University of Hamburg headed the institution for different periods of time from 1919, the year it was founded, to 2019. There were a total of 31 rectors and four presidents who ran the University of Hamburg . The fourth president, Dieter Lenzen , has been in office since 2010.
The term of office of the rectors and presidents ranged from one year to more than two decades since 1919.
While the management of the university was in the hands of a rector from 1919 to 1969, this task has been carried out by a president since 1970. The basis for this is a modified management model. Unlike the rector, a president does not necessarily have to come from the ranks of the university's own professors.
All the rectors and two of the presidents of the university were professors before they took office .
Almost without exception, men were at the head of Hamburg University. The exception at the beginning of the 21st century was Monika Auweter-Kurtz .
Rectors
Weimar Republic
13 rectors represented the University of Hamburg during the Weimar Republic . They came from different faculties. One of the rectors was Rudolf Laun . With his exception, the professors each held the office for one year. Laun was elected rector twice.
The founding rector of the university was the professor of economics Karl Rathgen . His year in office began in 1919 and ended in 1920.
Rathgen was followed by the professor of ethnology Georg Thilenius . He held the office from 1920 to 1921. From 1921 to 1922, Professor of Surgery Hermann Kümmell held the office of Rector. According to Kümmell, from 1922 to 1923, Otto Lauffer, professor of German antiquity and folklore, was rector of the university. Lauffer was followed by Professor of English Language and Culture Emil Wolff . Wolff was rector from 1923 to 1924. The professor of public law Rudolf Laun held the office of rector from 1924 to 1926. From 1926 to 1927 the professor of tropical medicine Bernhard Nocht was rector in Hamburg. He was followed by the professor of mathematics Wilhelm Blaschke . Blaschke held the office from 1927 to 1928. According to Wilhelm Blaschke, from 1928 to 1929, it was held by Heinrich Sieveking , Professor of Social Economics . In the year of office from 1929 to 1930, Ernst Cassirer , Professor of Philosophy, who had been teaching in Hamburg since 1919, was Rector of the University. Cassirer was one of the first Jewish rectors at a German university. Ludolf Brauer, professor of internal medicine, followed Cassirer. He held the office from 1930 to 1931. After Brauer, in the years 1931 to 1932, the professor the meteorologist Albert Wigand was rector of the Hamburg University. He was followed from 1932 to 1933 by Professor of Civil Law Leo Raape .
National Socialism and World War II
Four rectors were at the head of Hamburg University during the Nazi era and the Second World War .
Rector in the year 1933 to 1934 was the professor for criminal law Eberhard Schmidt . The professor of colonial and overseas history and the history of Germanness abroad, Adolf Rein , headed the university from 1934 to 1938. After Rein, Wilhelm Gundert, professor of the language and culture of Japan, was university rector from 1938 to 1941. From 1941 to 1945 the professor of pharmacology Eduard Keeser held the office of rector.
Eberhard Schmidt continued his career after the end of National Socialism. Adolf Rein was permanently dismissed from university. Wilhelm Gundert, born in 1880 and discharged in 1945, received the status of emeritus in 1955 . Eduard Keeser had been dismissed at short notice, but returned to the university in early 1946.
Occupation time
During the occupation , three rectors represented the University of Hamburg. Two of them, Emil Wolff and Rudolf Laun, already held the office of rector during the Weimar Republic. They held it in the years 1945 to 1947 and 1947 to 1948. Wolff and Laun followed the professor of physical chemistry Paul Harteck . He was rector from 1948.
Federal Republic of Germany
1949 to 1969
The University of Hamburg had 14 rectors between 1949 and 1969.
The last rector of the occupation, Paul Harteck, was also the first rector of the University of Hamburg after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany . He held the office until 1950. Harteck followed in the year 1950 to 1951 the professor of internal medicine Arthur Jores . According to Jores, from 1951 to 1952, the Professor of Classical Philology Bruno Snell was Rector. In the year 1953 to 1954, he was followed by Professor of Civil Procedure Law, Civil Law and Labor Law Eduard Bötticher . The professor of geography Albert Kolb was the rector of the university from 1954 to 1956. From 1956 to 1958 Karl Schiller , professor of economics, was rector of the University of Hamburg. According to Schiller, in the year of office from 1958 to 1959, the professor of tropical medicine Ernst Georg Nauck headed the university. Nauck was followed by Professor of Medieval and Modern History Otto Brunner . Brunner was rector from 1959 to 1960. After Brunner, from 1960 to 1961, the theology professor Helmut Thielicke headed the university as rector. Thielicke was succeeded by Rudolf Sievert's professor of criminal law, criminology and youth law , who held the post of rector from 1961 to 1963. Rector after Sieverts, from 1963 to 1965, was the professor of mathematics Emanuel Sperner . From 1965 to 1967, the professor of paediatrics Karl-Heinz Schäfer held the office of rector of the university. The professor of economics Werner Ehrlicher followed him from 1967. The last professor of applied chemistry Hansjörg Sinn was rector of the University of Hamburg from 1969 to 1970.
President
Federal Republic of Germany
1970 to 2018
The University of Hamburg has been represented by three presidents and one female president since 1970.
The first president was the Protestant theologian Peter Fischer-Appelt . Fischer-Appelt held the office for more than two decades, from 1970 to 1991. Jurist Jürgen Lüthje succeeded Peter Fischer-Appelt as President. Lüthje headed the university for a decade and a half, from 1991 to 2006. Monika Auweter-Kurtz, professor of space transportation technology, was president for three years, from 2006 to 2009. She left office prematurely due to internal disputes. Professor of Education Dieter Lenzen has headed the University of Hamburg since 2010.
See also
literature
- University of Hamburg 1919–1969 , published by the University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1969.
Web links
- Rectors of the University of Hamburg , accessed on April 15, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Carola Beckmeier / Ayli Neusel: Management strategies and self- image of university presidents and rectors. A pilot study at ten selected universities, published by the Scientific Center for Vocational and University Research of the University of Kassel, workshop reports - Volume 35, Verlag Jenior & Preßler, Kassel 1994, page 15, ISBN 3-928172-60-3 .