Board of Governors

  Thilo Vogel

The University's Board of Governors from left to right: Professor Margret Wintermantel, Professor Siegfried Russwurm, Irmtraut Gürkan, Dr. Bernd Bohr,  Professor Gudrun Gersmann, Dr. Robert G. Gossink, Dr. Lucia Reining, Professor Dierk Raabe,  Anna Nelles. Professor Jürgen Mlynek is not pictured.

 

The Board

The Board of Governors advises the Rectorate and oversees the management of university governance as the highest strategy and oversight committee.

A new Board of Governors was appointed in November 2012 till November 2017, after the five-year term of the first RWTH Aachen Board of Governors passed.

The Board of Governors is currently made up of ten external members. External board members comes from industry, business, and academia; one member should have gained the trust of the students. The Equal Opportunities Officer and the members of the Rector's Office belong to the Board in an advisory function. Board of Governors' meetings are not open to the public.  However members can call in guests to individual meetings or consult with them on points of order.

Responsibilities of the Board Governers in Accordance with Section 21 of the Higher Education Autonomy Act

• Election and dismissal of members of the Rector's Office
• Supervision of the management of the Rector's Office
• Approval of the University Development Plan, of drafts for the Target Agreement and of the Budget Plan
• Response to the Rector's Office's statement of accounts and formal approval of the Rector's Office

 

Members of the Board of Governers

Name	Position
Chairman Prof. Dr. Dierk Raabe	Chief Executive Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung GmbH
Vice-Chairman Dr.-Ing. Bernd Bohr	Member of the Board of Management, Robert Bosch GmbH Chairman of the Automotive Group
Member of the Board of Managers for the Board of Governors Dipl.-Phys. Anna Nelles MBA	PhD Candidate at Radboud University Nijmegen
Prof. Dr. Gudrun Gersmann	Chair for Early Modern History at the University of Cologne
Dr. Robert G. Gossink	Chairman of the Board, University Hospital Aachen (UKA)
Diplom-Volkswirtin Irmtraut Gürkan	Director of Finances at the University Hospital Heidelberg
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Jürgen Mlynek	President of the Helmholtz Association of National Research Centres
Dr. Lucia Reining	1st class Senior Researcher at CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) Coordinator of the LSI (Laboratoire des Solides Irradiés) Theoretical Spectroscopy Group, Ecole Polytechnique, Paris
Prof. Dr. Siegfried Russwurm	CEO Industry Sector Siemens AG
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Margret Wintermantel	President of the German Academic Exchange Service