Bauhaus-Universität Weimar: Senate

The central, academic collegial body of the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is the Senate. The Senate generally meets once a month and its meetings can be attended by all university members. It takes all decisions that are of fundamental importance to the university. Its tasks and composition are regulated in § 35 of the Thuringian Higher Education Act (ThürHG) and in § 8 of the Basic Regulations (Grundordnung).

The Senate's rules of procedure can be found here:
Rules of Procedure
First amendment to the Rules of Procedure

With the exception of personnel matters, the Senate’s meetings are open to all university members.

President
Prof. Peter Benz

Voting members

University professors (the parity Senate)
  Prof. Dr. Jasper Cepl
Prof. Björn Dahlem
Prof. Dr. Mark Jentsch
Prof. Dr. Stefan Lucks

  University professor (Senate with a majority of university teachers)
  Prof. Dr. Thorsten Beckers
Prof. Dr. Frank Eckardt
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell
Prof. Andreas Mühlenberend
Prof. Dr. Jörg Paulus
Prof. Burkart von Scheven
Prof. Dr. Henning Schmidgen
Prof. Dr. Conrad Völker
Prof. Dr. Max Welch Guerra

Academic staff (the parity Senate)
Dr. Silke Beinersdorf
Daniel Guischard
PD Dr. Andreas Jakoby
Christian Andrès Parra Sànchez

Technical and administrative staff (the parity Senate)
Christian Hense
Dr. Christian Kästner
Gudrun Kopf
Susanne Rößler

Students (the parity Senate)
Lucas Hedel
Philine Heyder
Goeram Jon Paul Leeder-Kamanda
Friederike Schubert

Advisory members
Martin Ahner (representative of the Association of Disabled People)
Dr. Miriam Benteler (Diversity Officer)
Custavo Cosenza (Representative Doctoral Council)
Prof. Dr. Lorenz Engell (Dean of the Faculty of Media)
Dr. Simon Frisch (Vice President of Academic Affairs)
Marina Glaser (Head of the President's Office)
Dr. Horst Henrici (Chancellor)
Dr. Ulrike Kuch (Vice President of Social Transformation)
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Tom Lahmer (Dean of the Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sigrun Langner (Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism)
Prof. Dr. Horst-Michael Ludwig (Representative of the University Council)
Tina Meinhardt (Equal Opportunities Officer)
Prof. Andreas Mühlenberend (Dean of the Faculty of Art and Design)
Dr. Alexandra Pommer (Chairperson of the Staff Council)
Prof. Dr. Timon Rabczuk (Vice President for Research, Arts and Young Academics)
Dr. Katrin Richter (Representative of the University Council)
A representative of the Student Council