Honorary Professorships of Paderborn University

The award of the title of Honorary Professor requires outstanding achievements in professional practice in the application or development of scientific knowledge and methods or outstanding artistic achievements and five years of successful independent teaching at the university.

Year of award

2019      Dr. Andreas Marchetti, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Romance Languages

2017      Prof. Dr. Gerhard E. Ortner, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Social and Human Sciences, Subject: Philosophy

2017      Dr.-Ing. Christian Obermann, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Polymer Technology

2016      Dr. Madjid Tavana, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department 3: Business Information Systems

2016      Dr. Florian Turk, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department 1: Management

2013      Dr.-Ing. Wilko Flügge, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Material and Joining Technology

2013      Dr. Michael Brands, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry

2012     Prof. Dr. Jan Carstensen, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, History Department

2012      Dr. Jens Krüger, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department 3: Business Information Systems

2012      Dr. Klaus Dieter Hungenberg, Faculty of Science, Department of Chemistry

2011      Dr. Jörg Hernler, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department 2: Taxation, Accounting and Finance

2009      Günther G. Goth, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department 1: Management

2007      Dr. Walter Gödden, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of German Studies and Comparative Literary Studies

2006      Dr. Jutta Prieur-Pohl, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, History Department

2005      Joachim Veit, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Musicology Seminar Detmold/Paderborn

2004      Dr. Burkard Wördenweber, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Dynamics and Mechatronics

2004      Dr. Anne Ratzki, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Educational Science

2002      Dr.-Ing. Kurt Alfred Ruppert, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Mechanical Process Engineering and Environmental Process Engineering

2002      Dr. jur. Walter Seidensticker, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department 6: Law

2002      Dr. Ralf Ohlendorf, former Department 5, Economics

2002      Dr. Carsten Martin Claussen, former Department 5, Economics

2002      Dr. Friedrich Ostermann, former Department 10, Mechanical Engineering

2001      Dr. Gerhard Janssen, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Media Studies; Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department 6: Law

2001      Dr. Matthias Wemhoff, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, History Department

2000      Dr. Gerd Bock, former Department 14, Electrical Engineering and Information Technology

1998      Dr. jur. Werner Schmeken, former Department 10, Mechanical Engineering

1997      Dr. Anne-Lene Fenger, former Department 1, Subject: Catholic Theology

1996      Dr.- Ing. Peter Puschner, former Department 10, Mechanical Engineering

1992      Woldemar Winkler †, former Department 4, Subject: Arts

1992      Dr. phil. Hans Taubken, former Department 3, Subject: Linguistics and Literary Studies

1992      Dipl.-Ing. Ottomar Apelt, former Department 16, Subject: Electrical Energy Technology

1990      Dr. phil. Manfred Balzer, former Department 1, Subject: History

1989      Dr. agr. Karl-Heinrich Hoppenbrock, former Department 9, Subject: Agriculture

1987      Dr.-Ing. Michael Clewing, former Department 16, Subject: Electrical Energy Technology

1987      Dr. rer. nat. Eckhard Schlimme, former Department 13, Chemistry and Chemical Engineering

1985      Dipl.-Ing. Günter Bolle, former Department 14, Subject: Electrical Engineering

1985      Dr. jur. Steffen Gronemeyer, former Department 5, Subject: Economics

1985      Dr. rer. pol. Heinrich Kürpick, former Department 5, Subject: Economics