Senate

The Senate is a university parliament of sorts. The Senate makes decisions that affect the entire university. This includes the examination and confirmation of appeals, the evaluation and conclusion of financial plans and the development of policies and guiding principles.

The non-professorial teaching staff has four seats in the Senate. According to the Thuringian Higher Education Act (ThürHG), the Senate votes in a variety of different constellations. For example, decisions that directly affect teaching are made in the »Senate with professorial majority«. Other decisions are made in the »Senate with equal representation«. This is based on a handout from the Thuringian Ministry of Science, Economy and Society (TMWWG).

Each of the four faculties elects representatives to the Senate. The scientific employees and artistic staff members of the university who cannot be allocated to a specific faculty (such as the members of the library staff) exercise their right to vote via the Faculty of Art and Design.

In the legislative term of October 2022 to September 2025, we are represented in the Senate by

Dr. Nicole Baron (Fakulty of Architecture and Urbanism)
nicole.baron[at]uni-weimar.de

Dr. Silke Beinersdorf (Fakulty of Civil Engineering)
silke.beinersdorf[at]uni-weimar.de

PD Dr. Andreas Jakoby (Fakulty of Media)
andreas.jakoby[at]uni-weimar.de

Dr. Katrin Richter (Fakulty of Art and Design/Service staff)
katrin.richter[at]uni-weimar.de

Former Senators:

Simon Frisch (200?-2019)

Michaela Honauer (2022)

Ulrike Kuch (2017-2022)

Nathalie Lang (2019-2022)

Dr. Karl-Heinz Müller

Detlef Rütz (1996-2019)

Alexander Schwinghammer (2016-2019)

Bernhard Stratmann (2007-2008, 2011-2017)