Members of the Senate
In accordance with section 1 of the Constitution of the University of Mannheim, the President as the Senate’s chair, the Executive Vice President as well as the equal opportunity commissioner of the university are ex officio members of the Senate. The other 36 members with voting rights are elected representatives from the group of university teachers, the academic staff members, the students, the doctoral students as well as the group of other staff members. Three Vice Presidents as well as a maximum of five deans (if they are not already elected members of the Senate) and a representative of the constituted student body are advisory members of the Senate.
For more details on the Senate’s composition, please see section 1 of the Constitution of the University of Mannheim.
Ex officio members (eligible to vote)
President (chair)
Executive Vice President
Equal opportunity commissioner of the university
Deputy: Prof. Dr. Nadine Klass
Ex officio members (advisory members)
Deans (if not members by virtue of elections)
Business Administration
Joachim LutzSocial Sciences
Prof. Dr. Julian DierkesMembers by virtue of elections (eligible to vote)
From the group of university teachers
(Term of office: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2027)LAW and ECONOMICS
Prof. Dr. Friedemann Kainer Chair of Civil Law, German and European Business and Labour Law
Prof. Dr. Eckhard Janeba
Professor of Public Finance and Economic PolicyProf. Dr. Jens-Uwe Franck
Chair of Civil Law, Commercial and Competition LawProf. Dr. Hans Peter Grüner
Chair of Economics, Economic PolicyDeputies:
Prof. Dr. Jens Bülte
Prof. Klaus Adam, Ph.D.
Prof. Dr. Thomas Tröger
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Prof. Dr. Armin Heinzl
Chair of General Management and Information SystemsProf. Dr. Johannes Voget
Chair of Taxation and FinanceProf. Dr. Cornelia Schön-Peterson
Chair of Service Operations ManagementProf. Dr. Dirk Simons
Chair of Business Administration and AccountingDeputy:
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Seifried
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Prof. Dr. Marc Debus
Chair of Political Science, Comparative GovernmentProf. Dr. ThomasGautschi
Chair of Sociological MethodologyProf. Dr. Oliver Dickhäuser
Chair of Educational PsychologyProf. Dr. Beatrice Kuhlmann
Chair of Cognitive Psychology and Cognitive AgingDeputies:
Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus
Prof. Dr. Richard Traunmüller
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
Prof. Dr. Christoph Weiß
Department of German StudiesProf. Dr. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen
Chair of PsycholinguisticsProf. Dr. Thomas Wortmann
Department of German StudiesProf. Dr. Matthias Kohring
Chair of Media and Communication StudiesDeputies:
Prof. Dr. Teresa Naab
Prof. Dr. Kristin Kersten
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Freitag
BUSINESS INFORMATICS and MATHEMATICS
Prof. Dr. Claus Hertling
Chair of Algebraic GeometryProf. Dr. Simone Paolo Ponzetto
Chair of Information Systems IIIProf. Dr. Christian Bizer
Chair of Information Systems VProf. Dr. Martin Schmidt
Chair of Mathematics IIIDeputies:
Prof. Dr. Frederik Armknecht
Prof. Dr. Heiner Stuckenschmidt
From the group of academic staff members
(Term of office: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2025)Christiane Koch
Department of English StudiesSina Schuhmaier
Department of EnglishDr. Regine Zeller
Chair of Modern German Studies IN.N. Deputies:
N.N.From the group of students
(Term of office: 1 August 2024 until 31 July 2025)Kilian Klemm
Deputy:
Jan HenselFelix Haas
Khachik Shaboyan
Deputies:
Aleksandra Apostolova
Mila RevinkHinrich Aust
Emily Schönenborn
Deputies:
Wanja Pasdzierny
Clara SchünemannFrom the group of doctoral students
(Term of office: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2025)Alexander Rupertus Giuliana Manganaro David Frank Müller Deputy:
N.N.
From the group of non-academic staff members
(Term of office: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2027)Britta Düvelmeyer
Division VIChristian Fäth
Division IMelanie Klinger
Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL)Sandra Schmidt
Division IIDeputies: Stellvertretung:
Claudius Werry
Dennis Windecker
Sascha Adam
Isabelle Otto
Representative of the constituted student body (advisory member)
Magnus Scheffel Deputy:
Alisha Benneckenstein
Contact
Beate Probst
President's Office
Schloss Ostflügel
68161 Mannheim