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Governing Bodies & Co.

Administrative bodies at Witten/Herdecke University

University in self-administration

The administrative bodies and organs are an expression of the self-administration of Witten/Herdecke University. They characterise the content and goals of the university and demonstrate the discourse that takes place. They are made up of members from all groups at the university: Professors:inside, students, academic and administrative staff. As a rule, the different groups of university members elect members to the administrative bodies to represent their respective interests.

Executive Board

In the area of tension between a humanistic mission, academic aspirations and an entrepreneurial attitude, it is the task of the Executive Board, together with the members of the university, to direct all energy towards a common goal: to create a space in which researchers, teaching staff, students, employees and other people can develop their potential to the best of their ability and contribute to shaping a sustainable and just society.

President

Chancellor

Vice presidents

Senate

The Senate is the highest academic decision-making body at Witten/Herdecke University. It plays a key role in the strategic orientation of the university in teaching, studies and research. The Senate's tasks are set out in the North Rhine-Westphalia University Act and Witten/Herdecke University's Statutes and Regulations. The Senate includes members from all academic units and status groups of the university.

The Senate

  • participates in the formation of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board,
  • comments on the university development plan submitted by the Executive Board, the business plan and the medium-term corporate framework plan,
  • decides on the University Statutes and Regulations,
  • issues framework regulations and other regulations as well as amendments to these,
  • discusses reports from the Executive Board,
  • decides on appointments of professors and
  • and awards academic honours.

Members of the Senate

Chairwoman of the Senate

  • Prof Dr Sabine Bohnet-Joschko, Faculty of Management, Economics and Society


Members of the Senate

  • Prof Dr Hagen Bachmann, Faculty of Health
  • Maximilian Bockemühl, Faculty of Health
  • Prof Dr Renate Buschmann, WittenLab. Zukunftslabor Studium fundamentale
  • Moritz Ehrenreich, Faculty of Management Economics and Society
  • Katja Frost, Faculty of Health
  • Maximilian Gill, Faculty of Management, Economics and Society
  • Prof. Dr Claudia Hagedorn, Faculty of Health
  • Dr Svenja Hartwig, WittenLab. Zukunftslabor Studium fundamentale
  • Lisa Kaupert, cross-faculty student representative
  • Prof. Dr Dirk Sauerland, Faculty of Management, Economics and Society
  • Julia Stronski, Faculty of Health
  • Prof. Dr Marcel Tyrell, Faculty of Management, Economics and Society
  • Prof Dr Claus Volkenandt, WittenLab. Zukunftslabor Studium fundamentale
  • Dirk Wirth, Head of Quality Management
  • Prof. Dr Stefan Zimmer and Prof. Dr Margareta Halek, Faculty of Health


Advisory members

  • Prof Dr Martin Butzlaff, President
  • Dr Peter Jan Ehlers, Vice President
  • Dr Dirk Jakobs, Vice President
  • Jan Peter Nonnenkamp, Chancellor
  • Prof Dr Petra Thürmann, Vice President

Member of the Works Council

  • Prof Dr Gebhard Reiss

 

Associates of the private Witten/Herdecke University and their natural representatives

Associates of UW/H (Private Universität Witten/Herdecke gGmbH) are non-profit foundations and organisations associated with the university. The three largest associates are Software AG Stiftung, Stiftung Private Universität Witten/Herdecke and IWU gGmbH - Initiative der Wirtschaft für die Private Universität Witten/Herdecke.

  • Software AG - Foundation
    Sebastian Bauer (Project Manager)
  • Stiftung Private Universität Witten/Herdecke University
    Dr Katrin Wulf (Chairwoman of the Board of Trustees)
    Malte Werner (Managing Director)
  • IWU gGmbH - Business Initiative for the Private Witten/Herdecke University
    Dr Hanno Bästlein (Managing Director)
    Dr Daniel Schütt (Managing Director)
  • StudierendenGesellschaft Witten/Herdecke e. V.
    Nils Luerweg (Member of the Executive Board)
    Giulia Weiß (Member of the Executive Board)
  • Herdecke Community Hospital gGmbH
    Christian Klodwig (Managing Director)
    Prof Dr Alfred Längler (Medical Director)
  • Witten Institute for Family Business - Foundation
    Prof Dr Tom Rüsen (Member of the Executive Board)
Pie chart with the UW/H shareholder shares

Supervisory Board

On 1 December 2009, Witten/Herdecke University established a Supervisory Board made up of renowned leaders and experts from the fields of business, science, education and health. The Supervisory Board, which is elected by the university's associates, acts as a neutral administrative body to monitor and control the activities of the management.

Members of the Supervisory Board

  • Prof Dr Hans-Christian Pape (Chairman of the Supervisory Board)
    Professor (emeritus) of Physiology at the University of Münster, former President of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
  • Dr Sandra Wolf (Deputy Chairwoman of the Supervisory Board)
    Managing Partner of Riese & Müller GmbH
  • Radoslav Albrecht
    Entrepreneur, founder and managing director of Bitbond GmbH and graduate of UW/H
  • Dr Janosch Dahmen
    Member of the German Bundestag for the Bündnis 90/Die Grünen party, Medical Director and Senior Physician in the Medical Directorate of the Berlin Rescue Service for the Berlin Fire Brigade and UW/H graduate
  • Dr Katrin Käufer
    Program Director Impact Finance, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Managing Director/Co-founder Presencing Institute, Cambridge, MA USA, and graduate of UW/H
  • Prof. Dr Dr h. c. Heinz-Peter Mansel
    Director of the Institute for International and Foreign Private Law at the University of Cologne
  • Prof. Dr Beate Schücking
    President of the German Student Union (DSW), Professor (emer.) of Health & Disease Studies, Psychosomatics at the University of Osnabrück, former Rector of the University of Leipzig
  • Katharina Weghmann
    Partner at EY Forensic & Integrity Services, Head of Integrity

Board of Trustees

Personalities from business and culture, politics and science, teaching and practice make up the Board of Trustees of Witten/Herdecke University. They are all united by their enthusiasm for promoting the university in the long term and actively participating in its work. As members, they support the university financially and ideally, act as partners to the Executive Board in an advisory capacity in matters of financing and strategic orientation, realise innovations at the university as providers of ideas and pave the way for new projects as mentors. They also see themselves as ambassadors for the university to the outside world. Every two years, the Board of Trustees organises a highly endowed funding competition and supports academic projects and student initiatives at UW/H with up to 20,000 euros.

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Curator

  • Andrea Psarski (Member of the Board of Trustees)
    Sparkasse Witten
  • Jan G. Sprakel (Member of the Board of Trustees)
    KAMAT Pumpen GmbH & Co.KG, Witten
  • Tobias Bachmüller
    Katjes Fassin GmbH & Co. KG, Emmerich
  • Dr Hanno M. Bästlein
    BestLine Privatstiftung, Vienna, Austria
  • PD Dr Bodo Brandts
    Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt gGmbH, Bochum, Germany
  • Prof Dr Birgit Hailer
    Katholisches Klinikum Essen GmbH, Essen
  • Prof Dr Hans-Peter Jöhren
    Dental Clinic, Bochum
  • Lars König
    Mayor of the City of Witten
  • Sonja Leidemann
    Werner Richard - Dr Carl Dörken Foundation, Herdecke
  • Jens Reidel
    RIGI Family Office AG, Rotkreuz, Switzerland
  • Prof Dr Christa Rohde-Dachser
    International Psychoanalytic University (IPU), Berlin
  • Prof Dr Dr Karl-Ulrich Rudolph
    IEEM gGmbH, Witten
  • Dr Katja Strauss-Köster
    Mayor of the City of Herdecke
  • Christa Thoben
    Former Minister, Bochum
  • Prof Dr Burkhard Ubrig
    Augusta-Kranken-Anstalt gGmbH, Bochum
  • Dr Britta Wurm
    Britta and Peter Wurm Foundation, Remscheid
  • Dr Peter Wurm
    Britta and Peter Wurm Foundation, Remscheid

Honorary trustees

  • Wolfgang Habig (†)
    Habig International, Oelde
  • Prof Dr Werner Ischebeck (†)
    Wuppertal
  • Peter Pohlmann
    LiVest, Bergkamen
  • Elisabeth Tengelmann (†)
    Recklinghausen

Wittener Universitätsgesellschaft e. V. (WUG)

The Wittener Universitätsgesellschaft e. V. (WUG) was founded in 1998 with the idea of bringing the city of Witten, the Ennepe-Ruhr district and the central Ruhr area and the university closer together. Since its inception, the WUG has supported the social commitment of the university and its students as well as research and teaching in a variety of ways. The WUG is organised as an association.

Management Board

  • Ulrich Heinemann
    Chairman
  • Frank Schweppe
    Deputy Chairman
  • Sebastian Benkhofer (Witten/Herdecke University)
    2nd Deputy Chairman
  • Klaus Völkel (City of Witten - Department of Labour, Health Management, Technology Transfer, University Development)
    Managing Director
  • Uwe Schulze-Vorwick (Member of the Board of Volksbank Bochum Witten eG)
    Treasurer
  • Martina Knop (Witten/Herdecke University)
    Secretary

Extended Executive Board

  • Ortwin Aufermann (Associate/Managing Director of Hugo Aufermann und Sohn GmbH, Witten)
  • Prof Dr Martin Butzlaff (President of Witten/Herdecke University)
  • Christian Geier (lawyer and notary, law firm Kleingarn und Geier, Witten)
  • Britta Koch (Witten/Herdecke University)
  • Christian Kroell
  • Lars König (Mayor of the City of Witten)
  • Klaus Lohmann (former Mayor of the City of Witten)
  • Dr Edeltraud Priddat (Honorary Chairman)
  • Jasmin Vogel (Chairman of the Kulturforum Witten)
  • Radomir Zecevic (Managing Director of TIME TRAX GmbH, Witten)

Stiftung Private Universität Witten/Herdecke

The aim of the Stiftung Private Universität Witten/Herdecke is to ensure the independence and financial stability of Witten/Herdecke University. The endowed funds are invested in accordance with a sustainable investment strategy. As the second largest shareholder in the university, the foundation guarantees the university's private self-administration.

Management Board

  • Malte Werner
  • Lara Werdehausen
  • Kai Inboden

Faculty student councils and student representatives

Students sit around a table and discuss.

The faculty student councils and student representatives at the UW/H bring students' interests, suggestions and problems to the university's self-administration. They organise, promote and coordinate university and subject policy issues as well as the social, cultural and societal commitment of students.

The students are organised in the following student representative bodies, which are divided into study areas:


The faculty student councils for Psychology and Medicine and Nursing Science pool the interests of the students of the Faculty of Health in the student council.

Other administrative bodies

In addition to the bodies and administrative bodies listed above, the UW/H also has

  • Faculty councils, which are the highest resolution-making bodies of the faculty
  • Faculty Offices, which are the central administrative and coordinating bodies of the departments
  • Examination boards, which ensure compliance with examination regulations and the proper conduct of examinations
  • Doctoral and habilitation committees, which fulfil the tasks defined in the rules of procedure and doctoral degree regulations of the faculties and in the habilitation regulations of the UW/H
  • Research committees that promote and coordinate the research activities of the chairs and other research institutions
  • the Ethics Commissionan independent organisation that assesses research projects carried out on living beings from an ethical, legal and social perspective