Bodies
Bodies
Dean's office
The dean’s office is the central switchboard of the faculty. The dean is the chairman of the faculty board and represents the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Theology to the outside world. He or she supervises the current affairs of the faculty. As a member of the extended university board, the dean represents the faculty in the university administration. The Dean presides the meetings of the faculty council and the faculty board and carries out its decisions.
Prof. Dr. Rainer Trinczek
Department of Sociology
Chair of Sociology I (Prof. Dr. Trinczek)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-23029
- Email: rainer.trinczek@fau.de
Vice Deans
The vice deans support and represent the dean in his/her duties. They are elected by the faculty council for two years.
Vice Deans
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Köckert
Department of Historical Theology
Chair of Historical Theology (Ancient Church History) (Prof. Dr. Köckert)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-22209
- Email: charlotte.koeckert@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Department Fachdidaktiken
Professorship for Music Education (Prof. Dr. Pfeiffer)
- Phone number: 09115302-95552
- Email: wolfgang.pfeiffer@fau.de
Vice Dean for Research
Prof. Dr. Roland Sturm
Institute of Political Science
Chair of Political Science
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-22370
- Email: roland.sturm@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Frieder R. Lang
Institut of Psychogerontology
Chair of Psychogerontology
- Phone number: +49 (0)911 5302-96102
- Email: frieder.lang@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Florian Kragl
Department of German Language and Literature
Chair of German Philology in the European Context
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-29354
- Email: florian.kragl@fau.de
Vice Dean for Internationalization
Prof. Dr. Lutz Edzard
Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair of Arabic and Semitic Studies
- Phone number: +49 (0)9131 85 22444
- Email: lutz.edzard@fau.de
Vice Deans for Teacher training
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Bühl-Gramer
Department Fachdidaktiken
Chair of Teaching of History
- Phone number: 09115302-95556
- Email: charlotte.buehl-gramer@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Thomas Herbst
Department of English and American Studies
FAU Senior Professor for English Linguistics
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-22936
- Email: thomas.herbst@fau.de
Vice Deans for Academic Affairs
According to Article 30 of the BayHSchG, the faculties’ vice deans for academic affairs act to ensure the studyability of the degree programmes within the standard study period, to guarantee the correspondence between the course offer and the examination and study regulations and the duly performed supervision of the students. They come from among the professors and are elected by the faculty council for three years. In their capacity as vice deans for academic affairs, they are members of the commission for teaching and study of the faculty (PhilLuSt) and make recommendations for further development in the field of teaching and study on faculty level.
Prof. Dr. Eva Breindl-Hiller
Department of German Language and Literature
Professur für Germanistische Linguistik mit Schwerpunkt Deutsch als Fremdsprache
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-23938
- Email: eva.breindl@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Magdalena Michalak
Department Fachdidaktiken
Chair for Teaching German as a Second Language (Prof. Dr. Michalak)
- Phone number: 0911-5302-99409
- Email: magdalena.michalak@fau.de
Prof. Dr. Henrik Pfeiffer
Department of Old Testament
Chair of Old Testamant I (Prof. Dr. Pfeiffer)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-22204
- Email: henrik.pfeiffer@fau.de
Diversity representative of the faculty
The Diversity Representative of the Faculty aims at fostering diversity, equality and equal opportunities among students and teachers, as well as in research and teaching. The Faculty is the first and only one that included this office in its equality concept, adopted in December 2012 and recognized by the university leadership as the best equality concept of the FAU.
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BAföG representative
Prof. Dr. Georg Seiderer
Department of History
Professur für Neuere Bayerische und Fränkische Landesgeschichte und Volkskunde (Prof. Dr. Seiderer)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-22789
- Email: georg.seiderer@fau.de