Honorary Doctorates at Paderborn University

The faculties of Paderborn University can award the doctoral degree "honoris causa" for outstanding scientific achievements. Further criteria are the personality of the person to be honored and his/her relation to the university. The person to be honored may not work full-time at the university.

Year of award

2019      Maria von Welser (television journalist), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

2017      Prof. Dr. Christiane Floyd (Universität Hamburg), awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

2016      Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier (former German Foreign Minister), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

2012      Herta Müller (Nobel Prize winner for literature), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities

2011      Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Dr. h.c. mult. Alfred Fettweis † (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics

2010      Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Nagl (RWTH Aachen), awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Department of Computer Science

2009      Prof. Dr. Bernd Schauenberg (University of Freiburg), awarded by the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics

2009      Dr. Reinhard Höppner † (Mathematician and former Minister President), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Protestant Theology

2005      Andreas Mertin (Protestant theologian and educationalist), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Protestant Theology

2000      Prof. Dr. Günter Hotz (Saarland University), awarded by the former Department 17, Subject: Computer Science

1998      Prof. Dr. Albrecht Pietsch (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), awarded by the former Department 17, Subject: Mathematics

1993      Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Hemfort (Member of the Board of Management of Westfalia Separator AG in Oelde), awarded by the former Department 10, Subject: Machine Technology