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.
Vice Presidents
Vice President Prof. Dr. Thomas Fetzer |
Vice President Prof. Dr. Moritz Fleischmann |
Vice President Prof. Henning Hillmann, Ph.D. |
Vice President Prof. Dr. Annette Kehnel |
Deans (if not members by virtue of elections)
Law and Economics Prof. Klaus Adam, Ph. D. |
Business Administration |
Social Sciences Prof. Dr. Michael Diehl |
Humanities Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ruhe |
Business Informatics and Mathematics Dr. Bernd Lübcke |
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 |
Prof. Dr. Jens-Uwe Franck |
Prof. Dr. Hans Peter Grüner Chair of Economics, Economic Policy |
Deputies: 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 Systems |
Prof. Dr. Johannes Voget Chair of Taxation and Finance |
Prof. Dr. Viola Deutscher Chair of Economic and Business Education |
Prof. Dr. Cornelia Schön-Peterson Chair of Service Operations Management |
SOCIAL SCIENCES
Prof. Dr. Marc Debus Chair of Political Science, Comparative Government |
Prof. Dr. Jutta Mata Chair of Health Psychology |
Prof. Dr. ThomasGautschi Chair of Sociological Methodology |
Prof. Dr. Oliver Dickhäuser Chair of Educational Psychology |
Deputies: Prof. Dr. Beatrice Kuhlmann Prof. Dr. Marc Helbling Prof. Dr. Bernhard Ebbinghaus Prof. Dr. Richard Traunmüller |
SCHOOL OF HUMANITIES
Prof. Dr. Christoph Weiß Department of German Studies |
Prof. Dr. Nicole Altvater-Mackensen Chair of Psycholinguistics |
Prof. Dr. Thomas Wortmann Department of German Studies |
Prof. Dr. Matthias Kohring Chair of Media and Communication Studies |
Deputies: Prof. Dr. Teresa Naab Prof. Dr. Kristin Kersten Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Freitag |
BUSINESS INFORMATICS and MATHEMATICS
Prof. Dr. Claus Hertling Chair of Algebraic Geometry |
Prof. Dr. Simone Paolo Ponzetto Chair of Information Systems III |
Prof. Dr. Christian Bizer Chair of Information Systems V |
Prof. Dr. Martin Schmidt Chair of Mathematics III |
Deputies: 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 Studies |
Sina Schuhmaier Department of English |
Ulla Theis |
Dr. Regine Zeller Chair of Modern German Studies I |
Deputies: Achim Brötz |
From the group of students
(Term of office: 1 August 2023 until 31 July 2024)
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From the group of doctoral students
(Term of office: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2025)
Carla Seeger |
Alexander Rupertus |
Giuliana Manganaro |
Deputy: David Frank Müller |
From the group of non-academic staff members
(Term of office: 1 August 2023 – 31 July 2027)
Britta Düvelmeyer Division VI |
Christian Fäth Division I |
Melanie Klinger Center for Teaching and Learning (ZLL) |
Sandra Schmidt Division II |
Deputies: Stellvertretung: Claudius Werry Dennis Windecker Sascha Adam Isabelle Otto |