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The University of Münster is a public university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

located in the city of Münster

Münster

Münster is an independent city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also capital of the local government region Münsterland...

, North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia

North Rhine-Westphalia is the most populous state of Germany, with four of the country's ten largest cities. The state was formed in 1946 as a merger of the northern Rhineland and Westphalia, both formerly part of Prussia. Its capital is Düsseldorf. The state is currently run by a coalition of the...

in Germany. The WWU is part of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft is an important German research funding organization and the largest such organization in Europe.-Function:...

, a society of Germany's leading research universities. The WWU has also been successful in the German "Excellence Initiative".

The WWU is the leading university in Germany in terms of CEO alumni in Top 500 companies.

With more than 40,000 students and over 130 fields of study it is Germany's third largest university and one of the foremost centers of German intellectual life. The university offers a wide range of units (e.g. Business, Geography, IT, Mathematics and many more) and several courses in English (e.g. PhD/Doctorate

PHD

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, Masters in Geoinformatics, Geospational Technologies or Information Systems).

The university is associated with nine Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize

The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize is a research prize awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft every year since 1985 to scientists working in Germany. This highest German research prize consists of a research grant of 2.5 million euro, to be used within seven years...

(most prestigious as well as most-funding prize in Europe), two Nobel prize

Nobel Prize

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(one former student and one professor) and one Fields Medal

Fields Medal

The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...

winners as professors and many more from former students.

History

The University has its roots in the Jesuiten-Kolleg Münster, which was founded in 1588. But today's University of Münster was founded in 1780 with four faculties: Law

Law

Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...

, Health Science (Medicine

Medicine

Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....

), Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

and Theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

. The ceremony of constitution was performed by Franz Freiherr von Fürstenberg. In 1805 the university was extended to the Prussia

Prussia

Prussia was a German kingdom and historic state originating out of the Duchy of Prussia and the Margraviate of Brandenburg. For centuries, the House of Hohenzollern ruled Prussia, successfully expanding its size by way of an unusually well-organized and effective army. Prussia shaped the history...

n University of Westphalia.
It got its current name from Emperor Wilhelm II in 1907: Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität (WWU).

Organization

Faculty of Protestant Theology
Faculty of Catholic Theology
Catholic
The word catholic comes from the Greek phrase , meaning "on the whole," "according to the whole" or "in general", and is a combination of the Greek words meaning "about" and meaning "whole"...
Faculty of Law
Law
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Faculty of Economics
Economics
Economics is the social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. The term economics comes from the Ancient Greek from + , hence "rules of the house"...

(Muenster School of Business Administration and Economics)
Faculty of Health Science (Medicine and Dental Medicine)
Faculty of Philosophy
- Faculty of Educational and Social Science
- Faculty of Psychology and Sport Science
- Faculty of History/Philosophy
- Faculty of Philology
Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics
- Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
- Faculty of Physics
- Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy
- Faculty of Biology
- Faculty of Earth Science
Faculty of Music (Musikhochschule Münster
Musikhochschule Münster
The Musikhochschule Münster is a university-level school of music in Münster, Germany.From 1972 to 2003 the Musikhochschule Münster was integrated as a campus of the Hochschule für Musik Detmold...

)

Points of interest

Botanischer Garten Münster
Botanischer Garten Münster
The Botanischer Garten Münster is a botanical garden maintained by the University of Münster...

, the university's historic botanical garden
Botanical garden
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Student life

The University of Münster offers a very active student life. Student organisations such as AIESEC

AIESEC

AIESEC is a global youth organisation that develops leadership capabilities through their internal leadership programmes and engaging students and graduates in international student exchange and internship programmes for profit and non-profit organisations. Its international office is in...

, AEGEE, MOVE, MTP and many more are well represented and usually have a high number of members. A wide range of language courses is also offered (UNIcert

UNIcert

The UNIcert is an international system of certification and accreditation for various languages learnt in a university context. The main goal of UNIcert is to support language education for universities and to provide an accepted certificate that proves language knowledge outside universities.The...

). The city of Münster itself has a very active night life with over 1.000 bars, discothèques and clubs and the city of the Peace of Westphalia

Peace of Westphalia

The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October of 1648 in Osnabrück and Münster. These treaties ended the Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire, and the Eighty Years' War between Spain and the Dutch Republic, with Spain formally recognizing the...

also has - of course - a very rich cultural life.

Students

Wolfgang Clement
Wolfgang Clement
Wolfgang Clement is a German politician. Clement was a member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany . He was Premier of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia from 1998 to 2002 and Federal Minister of Economics and Labour from 2002 to 2005.Wolfgang Clement is an Honorary Member of the...

, Politician
Politician
A politician, political leader, or political figure is an individual who is involved in influencing public policy and decision making...
Johannes Georg Bednorz
Johannes Georg Bednorz
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, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

winner (1987)
Dr. Andreas Raymond Dombret
Andreas Dombret
Andreas Raymond Dombret is German-American banker. He is a member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank. He was the Vice-Chairman of Bank of America Global Investment Banking in Europe, the Middle East and Africa as well as Head of the German, Austrian and Swiss branches...

, Münster School of Business Administration and Economics
Münster School of Business Administration and Economics
The Münster School of Business and Economics is the business school at the University of Münster . it has 6,000 students. The University of Münster and in particular the Münster School of Business Administration and Economics is the leading university in Germany in terms of CEO alumni in Top 500...

, Member of the Executive Board of the Deutsche Bundesbank
Deutsche Bundesbank
The Deutsche Bundesbank is the central bank of the Federal Republic of Germany and as such part of the European System of Central Banks . Due to its strength and former size, the Bundesbank is the most influential member of the ESCB. Both the Deutsche Bundesbank and the European Central Bank are...
Prof. Dr. Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings
Gerd Faltings is a German mathematician known for his work in arithmetic algebraic geometry.From 1972 to 1978, he studied mathematics and physics at the University of Münster. In 1978 he received his PhD in mathematics and in 1981 he got the venia legendi in mathematics, both from the University...

, Mathematician
Mathematician
A mathematician is a person whose primary area of study is the field of mathematics. Mathematicians are concerned with quantity, structure, space, and change....

, Fields Medal
Fields Medal
The Fields Medal, officially known as International Medal for Outstanding Discoveries in Mathematics, is a prize awarded to two, three, or four mathematicians not over 40 years of age at each International Congress of the International Mathematical Union , a meeting that takes place every four...
Prof. Dr. Dieter Fenske
Dieter Fenske
Prof. Dr. Dieter Fenske is a German inorganic chemist.Fenske studied chemistry at the University of Münster, received his PhD in 1973 and his Habilitation in 1978...

, Chemist
Chemist
A chemist is a scientist trained in the study of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density and acidity. Chemists carefully describe the properties they study in terms of quantities, with detail on the level of molecules and their component atoms...
Birgit Fischer
Birgit Fischer
Birgit Fischer is a kayaker, who has won eight gold medals over six different Olympic Games, a record she shares with Aladár Gerevich, spanning seven Olympiads: twice representing East Germany , then four times representing the reunited nation...

, Politician
Kai Diekmann
Kai Diekmann
Kai Diekmann is a German journalist. From 1998 until 2000 he was editor of Welt am Sonntag . Since January 2001 he is chief editor of Bild. He is also a member of the executive board of the Turkish daily Hürriyet.- Life :Diekmann grew up in Bielefeld...

, Chief Editor of "Bild", Europe's largest newspaper (3.5 million copies)
Dr. August Hanning
August Hanning
August Hanning is a former president of the Bundesnachrichtendienst who served from 1998 to December 2005.-References:...

, President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst
Bundesnachrichtendienst
The Bundesnachrichtendienst [ˌbʊndəsˈnaːχʁɪçtnˌdiːnst] is the foreign intelligence agency of Germany, directly subordinated to the Chancellor's Office. Its headquarters are in Pullach near Munich, and Berlin . The BND has 300 locations in Germany and foreign countries...
Dr. Dr. Gustav Heinemann
Gustav Heinemann
Gustav Walter Heinemann, GCB was a German politician. He was Mayor of the city of Essen from 1946 to 1949, West German Minister of the Interior from 1949 to 1950, Minister of Justice from 1966 to 1969 and President of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1969 to 1974.-Early years and professional...

, Politician, former President of Germany
President of Germany
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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Hirzebruch
Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch is a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation.-Life:He was born in Hamm, Westphalia...

, Mathematician
Prof. Dr. Thomas Hoeren
Thomas Hoeren
Thomas Hoeren is a German law professor and judge with focus on Information and Media Law.-Studies:...

, intellectual property
Intellectual property
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judge and lawyer
Jens Lehmann
Jens Lehmann
Jens Gerhard Lehmann is a German former football goalkeeper. He was voted UEFA Club Goalkeeper of the Year for the 1996–97 and 2005–06 seasons, and he has been selected for three World Cup squads. He was a member of Arsenal's Invincibles, playing every match of their famous unbeaten title winning...

, footballer (goal keeper) of the German Football Team
Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula von der Leyen
Ursula Gertrud von der Leyen is a German politician of the conservative Christian Democratic Union.Since 30 November 2009, she has served as the Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs in the Second Cabinet Merkel. In the First Cabinet Merkel , she served as Federal Minister of Family...

, Doctor, Federal Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, MP in the Deutscher Bundestag
Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann
Niklas Luhmann was a German sociologist, and a prominent thinker in sociological systems theory.-Biography:...

, Sociologist
Ulrike Marie Meinhof, member of the Red Army Faction
Red Army Faction
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Gilmar Mendes
Gilmar Mendes
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President of Brazilian Supreme Federal Court
Frank Mattern, Münster School of Business Administration and Economics
Münster School of Business Administration and Economics
The Münster School of Business and Economics is the business school at the University of Münster . it has 6,000 students. The University of Münster and in particular the Münster School of Business Administration and Economics is the leading university in Germany in terms of CEO alumni in Top 500...

, Director Germany McKinsey
Dr. Thomas Middelhoff
Thomas Middelhoff
Thomas Middelhoff is a German corporate manager. He was on the board of directors of Bertelsmann from 1990–2002, being CEO from 1998...

, Board of Directors Bertelsmann
Bertelsmann
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Prof. Dr. Georg Milbradt
Georg Milbradt
Georg Milbradt is a German politician . He was the Minister-president of the Free State of Saxony from 2002 to 2008.-Life:...

, Minister-President
Minister-President
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of Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
Walter Momper
Walter Momper
Walter Momper is a German politician and former Mayor of West Berlin 1989–1990 and Berlin 1990-1991. Whilst Governing Mayor, he served as President of the Bundesrat in 1989/90...

, Politician
Ruprecht Polenz
Ruprecht Polenz
Ruprecht Polenz is a German politician and member of the Christian Democratic Union political party.-Political career:...

, Politician
Dr. Kurt Schumacher
Kurt Schumacher
Dr. Kurt Schumacher , was chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Germany from 1946 and first Leader of the Opposition in the West German Bundestag parliament from 1949 until his death...

, Politician
Dr. h.c. Rudolf Seiters
Rudolf Seiters
Rudolf Seiters is a German politician of the CDU party.From 1989-1991, he was Federal Minister for Special Affairs and the Head of the Office of the German Chancellery. From 1991-1993, he was the Minister of the Interior. From 1998-2002, he was the Vice President of the German Bundestag, or...

, Politician
Prof. Dr. Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn
Hans-Werner Sinn is a German economist and President of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research.- Education and career :...

, student, President of the leading Institution for Economic Research (Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung, IFO).
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Karl Stein
Karl Stein (mathematician)
Karl Stein was a German mathematician. He is well known for complex analysis and cryptography...

, Mathematician
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.mult. Hans Tietmeyer
Hans Tietmeyer
Hans Tietmeyer is a German economist and regarded as one of the foremost experts on international financial matters. He was president of Deutsche Bundesbank from 1993 until 1999 and remains one of the most important figures in finance of the European Union....

, Economist
Economist
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Klaus Töpfer
Klaus Töpfer
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, UNO-Commissar
Ernst Tugendhat
Ernst Tugendhat
Ernst Tugendhat is a Czech-born German philosopher. He was born in Brno, Czechoslovakia, to a wealthy Jewish family that commissioned Mies van der Rohe with the Villa Tugendhat in Brno. In 1938 the family emigrated from Czechoslovakia to St...

, Philosopher
Prof. Dr. Karl Weierstrass
Karl Weierstrass
Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass was a German mathematician who is often cited as the "father of modern analysis".- Biography :Weierstrass was born in Ostenfelde, part of Ennigerloh, Province of Westphalia....

, Mathematician
Harald Weinrich
Harald Weinrich
Harald Weinrich is a German classical scholar, scholar of Romance philology and philosopher, known for the breadth of his writings. He is emeritus professor of the Collège de France, and held the chair of Romance literature from 1992 to 1998.His doctorate and Habilitation were from the University...

, Classical Scholar
Arthur Wieferich
Arthur Wieferich
Arthur Josef Alwin Wieferich was a German mathematician and teacher, remembered for his work on number theory....

, Mathematician
Heinrich August Winkler
Heinrich August Winkler
Heinrich August Winkler is a German historian.After attending a Gymnasium in Ulm, he studied history, political science, philosophy and public law at Münster, Heidelberg and Tübingen. In 1970 he became professor at the Free University of Berlin. From 1972 to 1991 he was professor at the University...

, Historian
Dr. Klaus Zumwinkel
Klaus Zumwinkel
Klaus Peter Richard Otto Zumwinkel was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Deutsche Post between 1990 and 2008. Being under suspicion of tax fraud, he resigned from office on February 15, 2008...

, former Board of Directors Deutsche Post World Net

University lecturers

Pope Benedict XVI
Pope Benedict XVI
Benedict XVI is the 265th and current Pope, by virtue of his office of Bishop of Rome, the Sovereign of the Vatican City State and the leader of the Catholic Church as well as the other 22 sui iuris Eastern Catholic Churches in full communion with the Holy See...
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Ackermann
Wilhelm Ackermann
Wilhelm Friedrich Ackermann was a German mathematician best known for the Ackermann function, an important example in the theory of computation....

, Mathematician
Prof. Dr. Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland
Kurt Aland was a German Theologian and Professor of New Testament Research and Church History. He founded the Institut für neutestamentliche Textforschung in Münster and served as its first director for many years...

, Theologian
Prof. Dr. Karl Barth
Karl Barth
Karl Barth was a Swiss Reformed theologian whom critics hold to be among the most important Christian thinkers of the 20th century; Pope Pius XII described him as the most important theologian since Thomas Aquinas...

, Theologian
Prof. Dr. Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg
Hans Blumenberg was a German philosopher.He studied philosophy, Germanistics and classics and is considered to be one of the most important German philosophers of recent decades...

, (1920–1996) Philosopher
Prof. Dr. Max Dehn
Max Dehn
Max Dehn was a German American mathematician and a student of David Hilbert. He is most famous for his work in geometry, topology and geometric group theory...

, (1878–1952) Mathematician
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Domagk
Gerhard Johannes Paul Domagk was a German pathologist and bacteriologist credited with the discovery of Sulfonamidochrysoidine – the first commercially available antibiotic – for which he received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.Domagk was born in Lagow, Brandenburg, the...

, Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prizes are annual international awards bestowed by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and scientific advances. The will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, the inventor of dynamite, established the prizes in 1895...

in Medicine (1939)
Prof. Dr. Heinz Gollwitzer
Heinz Gollwitzer
Heinz Gollwitzer was a German historian. He held the chair of Modern Political and Social History at the University of Münster.- Life :...

, (1917–1999) Historian
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Großfeld, International Business Law
Prof. Dr. Klaus Hildebrand
Klaus Hildebrand
Klaus Hildebrand is a German conservative historian whose area of expertise is 19th-20th century German political and military history.- Biography :...

, Historian
Prof. Dr. Paul Kevenhörster
Paul Kevenhörster
Paul Johannes Kevenhörster is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Westphalian William's University of Muenster in Germany. His work focuses on politics in Japan, municipal government and international development co-operation. He has served in academia as well as in a government agency...

, Political scientist
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Killing
Wilhelm Killing
Wilhelm Karl Joseph Killing was a German mathematician who made important contributions to the theories of Lie algebras, Lie groups, and non-Euclidean geometry....

, (1847–1923) Mathematician
Prof. Dr. Paul Kirchhof
Paul Kirchhof
Paul Kirchhof is a German jurist and tax law expert. He is also a professor of law, member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences and a former judge in the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany , the highest court in Germany.Kirchhof obtained a doctorate at the early age of 25 having...

, Jurist
Prof. Dr. Dr. Johann Baptist Metz
Johann Baptist Metz
Johann Baptist Metz is a Catholic theologian. He is Ordinary Professor of Fundamental Theology, Emeritus, at Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster, Germany....

, Theologian
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Metzger
Wolfgang Metzger
Wolfgang Metzger is considered one of the main representatives of Gestalt psychology in Germany....

, Psychologist
Psychologist
Psychologist is a professional or academic title used by individuals who are either:* Clinical professionals who work with patients in a variety of therapeutic contexts .* Scientists conducting psychological research or teaching psychology in a college...
Prof. Dr. Alfred Müller-Armack
Alfred Müller-Armack
Alfred Müller-Armack was a German economist and politician.He was professor of economics at University of Münster and University of Cologne. Müller-Armack coined the term "social market economy" in 1946....

(1901–1978), Economist
Economist
An economist is a professional in the social science discipline of economics. The individual may also study, develop, and apply theories and concepts from economics and write about economic policy...

, Inventor of the Social Market Economy
Social market economy
The social market economy is the main economic model used in West Germany after World War II. It is based on the economic philosophy of Ordoliberalism from the Freiburg School...
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Münzer
Friedrich Münzer
Friedrich Münzer was a German classical scholar noted for the development of prosopography, particularly for his demonstrations of how family relationships in ancient Rome connected to political struggles....

, Classical Scholar
Prof. Dr. Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper
Josef Pieper was a German Catholic philosopher, at the forefront of the Neo-Thomistic wave in twentieth century Catholic philosophy. Among his most notable works are The Four Cardinal Virtues: Prudence, Justice, Fortitude, Temperance; Leisure: the Basis of Culture; The Philosophical Act and Guide...

(1904–1997), Philosopher
Prof. Dr. Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner, SJ was a German Jesuit and theologian who, alongside Bernard Lonergan and Hans Urs von Balthasar, is considered one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century...

(1904–1984), Theologian
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Rensch
Bernhard Rensch
Bernhard Rensch was a German evolutionary biologist, and ornithologist who did field work in Indonesia and India. He is probably best known as one of the architects of the modern evolutionary synthesis, which he popularised in Germany...

(1900–1990), Biologist
Prof. Dr. Helmut Schelsky
Helmut Schelsky
Helmut Schelsky, , was a German sociologist, the most influential in post-World War II Germany, well into the 1970s.-Biography:...

(1912–1984), Sociologist
Prof. Dr. Song Du-yul
Song Du-yul
Song Du-yul is a professor of philosophy and sociology at the University of Münster in Münster, Germany. He has been a political exile in Germany from his native South Korea for over 40 years. Educated in South Korea, he left that nation for Germany in 1967 to pursue higher education...

, Philosopher, former prisoner under South Korea's National Security Act
National Security Act (South Korea)
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Prof. Dr. Hans Wehr
Hans Wehr
Hans Wehr was a German Arabist. A professor at the University of Münster from 1957-1974, he published the Arabisches Wörterbuch , which was later published in an English edition as A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic, edited by J Milton Cowan. For the dictionary Wehr created a transliteration...

(1909–1981), Islam Scientist and Author of the leading Arabian-English dictionary (also used for Wikipedia guidelines).

Honorary Doctors

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann
Jan Assmann is a German Egyptologist who was born in Langelsheim.-Education and teaching:He went to school in Lübeck and Heidelberg before going on to study Egyptology, Classical Archeology and Greek Studies in Munich, Heidelberg, Paris and Göttingen...

(D. theol. h.c. Faculty of Protestant Theology (1998))
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Arnold L. Demain, Biotechnology (2003 Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde is a German judge and legal philosopher.-Life:In 1953 he received a PhD in law as well as in philosophy. In 1964 he made his postdoctoral habilitation with his thesis The power of organisation in the purview of the government. A survey on constitutional law in the...

, Judge
Judge
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, Bundesverfassungsgericht (2001 Faculty of Law)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. David A. O. Edward, Judge
Judge
A judge is a person who presides over court proceedings, either alone or as part of a panel of judges. The powers, functions, method of appointment, discipline, and training of judges vary widely across different jurisdictions. The judge is supposed to conduct the trial impartially and in an open...

(2001 Faculty of Law)
Prof. Dr. h.c. Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto Freyre
Gilberto de Mello Freyre was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter and congressman. His best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala...

Ph. D.
Dr. h.c. Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the USSR, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991...
Dr. h.c. Manfred Gotthardt (2003 Faculty of Health Science (Medicine))
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Tomas Hammar, Political Scientist (2002 Faculty of Philosophy)
Dr. h.c. Wim Kok
Wim Kok
Willem "Wim" Kok ; born September 29, 1938) is a retired Dutch politician of the Labour Party . He served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from August 22, 1994 until July 22, 2002....

, Prime Minister (Netherlands) (2003 Faculty of Philosophy)
Dr. h.c. Hanna-Renate Laurien
Hanna-Renate Laurien
Hanna-Renate Laurien was a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union.- Biography :Laurien was born in Danzig...

, Theologian (1996 Faculty of Catholic Theology)
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Robert Leicht, Reporter (2003 Faculty of Protestant Theology)
Dr. h.c. Reinhard Mohn
Reinhard Mohn
Reinhard Mohn was a German businessman who turned Bertelsmann, a "provincial, war-shattered German publisher", into the sixth largest media conglomerate in the world.-Early life:...

, Director Bertelsmann (2001 Faculty of Economics (Münster School of Business Administration and Economics))
Dr. h.c. Rupert Neudeck
Rupert Neudeck
Rupert Neudeck is a German journalist and humanitarian.He lived in Danzig until 1945 when Germans either fled from the advancing Soviets, or were expelled in the Expulsion of Germans from Poland after World War II...
Dr. h.c. Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker
Jean-Claude Juncker is a Luxembourg politician, 23rd and current Prime Minister of Luxembourg, since 20 January 1995. He is the longest standing head of government of any European Union state...

, Prime Minister (Luxembourg
Luxembourg
Luxembourg , officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg , is a landlocked country in western Europe, bordered by Belgium, France, and Germany. It has two principal regions: the Oesling in the North as part of the Ardennes massif, and the Gutland in the south...

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Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hubert Schmidbaur, Chemist (2005 Department of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics)
Dr. h.c. Erich Schumann
Erich Schumann
Erich Schumann was a German physicist who specialized in acoustics and explosives, and had a penchant for music, as he was a grandson of the classical composer Robert Schumann. He was a general officer in the army and a professor at the University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin...

, Jurist
Jurist
A jurist or jurisconsult is a professional who studies, develops, applies, or otherwise deals with the law. The term is widely used in American English, but in the United Kingdom and many Commonwealth countries it has only historical and specialist usage...

(2002 Faculty of Law)
Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Thierse
Wolfgang Thierse
Wolfgang Thierse is a German politician .- Early years in the GDR :Thierse was born in Breslau . He is a Roman Catholic and grew up in East Germany. After his A-levels he first worked as a typesetter in Weimar...

, Politician
Dr. h.c. Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
Dalai Lama
The Dalai Lama is a high lama in the Gelug or "Yellow Hat" branch of Tibetan Buddhism. The name is a combination of the Mongolian word далай meaning "Ocean" and the Tibetan word bla-ma meaning "teacher"...

(2007 Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy)

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