Professor Günter M. Ziegler Elected President of Freie Universität Berlin

Extended Academic Senate Voted for Successor to Long-term President Peter-André Alt. No 087/2018 from May 02, 2018 The mathematician Prof. Günter M. Ziegler, a professor at Freie Universität Berlin, was elected president of Freie Universität. During a session of the Extended Academic Senate on Wednesday, Ziegler received 39 of 61 votes cast in the first ballot, as the Central Election Committee announced. Ziegler won out over Tanja Brühl, a professor of political science at Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, who received 15 votes. The absolute majority, or 31 votes, was required to win. Ziegler succeeds Peter-André Alt, who after two terms in office did not run for re-election. On April 24, Alt was elected president of the German Rectors' Conference.