University Council

The University Council advises and supports the university in all key issues and cultivates its profile as well as its performability and competitive capacity. Decisions made by the Senate on enacting or changing the constitution, the university's overall development plan or the quality assurance system must be approved by the University Council. It consists of ten members; five come from within the university and five from the fields of commerce, science and public life. The tenure of the Board of Governors is five years.

Members (tenure period 1 January 2009 - 31 December 2013)

Chairperson
Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Barner

Representatives
Professor Dr. Jan Kusber, Professor Dr. Walter Kröll

Management
Waltraud Reinhardt, , Tel +49 6131 39-22419

Members appointed by the Minister of Education, Science, Continuing Education, and Culture

• Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Barner, spokesperson of the board of managing directors of Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH
• Professor Dr. Irene Dingel, Director of the Department of History of Occidental Religion at the Leibniz-Institute of European History 
• Dr. Leopold von Heimendahl, former Spokesperson of the Board, Schott Glas Company
• Professor Dr. Walter Kröll, former President of Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
• Professor Dr. Martin Röllinghoff, former Director of the Institute for Clinical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg

 

Members elected by the Senate of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz

• Professor Claudia Eder, Mainz School of Music 
• stud. Lisa Bicknell, Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies
• Professor Dr. Beatrice Weder di Mauro, Faculty 03: Law, Management and Economics
• Dr. Friedrich Kayser, Faculty 08: Physics, Mathematics, and Computer Science 
• Professor Dr. Jan Kusber, Faculty 07: History and Cultural Studies