University of Freiburg Welcomes Holger Reinecke as New Chair of the University Council

About Holger Reinecke

Reinecke studied chemistry at Clausthal University of Technology, where he gained his doctorate in 1990. He then worked for more than 14 years at STEAG microParts GmbH, now Böhringer Ingelheim microParts GmbH, where he held various positions in the areas of research & development, production and market development. From 2004 onwards, Reinecke held the professorship for process technology at the Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK) at the University of Freiburg for ten years and was simultaneously head of the Institute for Micro and Information Technology at Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft für angewandte Forschung e.V. in Villingen-Schwenningen. From 2014 to December 2023, he was CEO of the Schölly Group. He was appointed to the Executive Board of Aesculap AG on 1 July 2022.

About Andreas Voßkuhle

Voßkuhle is Director of the Institute for state science and legal philosophy at the University of Freiburg. From March 2010 to June 2020, he was President of Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court and Chairman of the Second Senate. Prior to this, the constitutional law professor was elected Rector of the University of Freiburg in 2007, a position he held briefly from April to May 2008 until he was appointed judge and Vice President of the Federal Constitutional Court. Voßkuhle is a member of many academic committees and has received numerous honours. He has been a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2007 and a member of the Leopoldina – National Academy of Sciences and Humanities since 2018. His research specialisms include constitutional law and constitutional and legal theory. Together with Matthias Jestaedt, Voßkuhle is co-founder of the Cluster of Excellence initiative Constitution as Practice in Times of Transformation (ConTrans) at the University of Freiburg.

Appointment of the University Council

For its term of office from 1 October 2024 to 30 September 2027, the University Council will consist of the following:

External members

• Prof. Dr. Nina Buchmann, Professor of Grassland Sciences, Department of Environmental Systems Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich
• Prof. Dr. Julika Griem, Director of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities Essen (KWI)
• Bettina Limperg, President of the Federal Court of Justice
• Prof. Dr. Holger Reinecke, Director of Research and Development, Regulatory Affairs at Aesculap AG
• Christine Strobl, Programme Director of ARD
• Dr. Eva Voß, Head of Diversity, Inclusion and People Care Germany & Austria, BNP Paribas

Internal members

• Prof. Dr. Anna Köttgen, Professor of Genetic Epidemiology, Head of the Institute of Genetic Epidemiology, Department of Biometry, Epidemiology and Medical Bioinformatics, Freiburg University Medical Centre
• Prof. Dr. Jörn Leonhard, Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Western Europe, Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, University of Freiburg
• Mattis Schulte, student of political science and philosophy, University of Freiburg
• Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Andreas Voßkuhle, Professor of Public Law, Director of the Institute for state science and legal philosophy, Faculty of Law, University of Freiburg
• Prof. Dr. Cornelius Waller, Senior Physician, Department of Internal Medicine I (Haematology, Oncology and Stem Cell Transplantation), Freiburg University Medical Centre