University Senate: New Chairman Elected

The result was unanimous: The eleven members of the University Senate elected Gerhard Bringmann, professor of organic chemistry, for two years as the new Chairman of the panel. As a consequence, Bringmann is at the same time also the Deputy Chairperson of the University Council – an automatism that arises from the Bavarian University Law.

As the Deputy Senate Chairperson, Hans‐Joachim Lauth, professor of political science, was elected. His term amounts to two years, too.

The Members of the Senate
The members of the Senate are: six professors, two students, a representative of the scientific and artistic employees, a representative of the other employees, and, by virtue of her office, the women's representative. The committee has various tasks, among them the decision on the study and examination rules and on other legal regulations of the university.

To the new Senate, which started its work on October 1st, belong:

• the professors Gerhard Bringmann (Chemistry), Hans‐Joachim Lauth (Political Science), Dominik Burkard (Catholic Theology), Ralph Claessen (Physics), Ulrich Konrad (Musicology), and Georg Ertl (Medicine)

• the students Alexander Bagus and Jana Englmeier

• Eberhard Rommel (Physics) as the representative of the scientific and artistic staff

• Klaus Baumann (Central Administration) as the representative of the other employees

• the women's representative, Professor Marie‐Christine Dabauvalle

New Chairman of the University Council
The Senate members simultaneously belong to the University Council, which has formed up newly from October 1st. During its first session on October 14, Professor Otmar Issing was elected as the chairperson of the Council. His acting representative is Professor Gerhard Bringmann.

Otmar Issing (77) was born in Würzburg, where he studied Political Economy. After a stay at the University of Erlangen‐Nürnberg, he held ‐ from 1973 ‐ several years the Würzburg Chair of Political Economy, Money, and International Economic Relations. From 1990 he belonged to the Board of Directors of the German Central Bank and, from 1998 to 2006, to the Executive Board of the European Central Bank. At present, Prof. Issing is, i.a., the President of the Center for Financial Studies at the University of Frankfurt/Main.

More about the new University Council:
http://www.uni‐wuerzburg.de/sonstiges/meldungen/single/artikel/start‐fuer‐1/

Link:
http://www.uni‐wuerzburg.de/sonstiges/meldungen/single/artikel/senat‐neu/