Presidents and rectors of universities in Germany

Konrad Wimpina (Wiminae, Wiminesis; real name Konrad Koch) (b. at Buchen in Baden, about 1465; d. at Amorbach in Lower Franconia, 17 May 1531) was a German Roman Catholic theologian and humanist of the early Reformation period.

Dieter Zechlin (October 30, 1926 – March 16, 2012) was a German pianist.

Friedrich August von Kaulbach (2 June 1850, Hannover – 26 July 1920, Munich, Germany) was a German portraitist and historical painter.

Andreas Voßkuhle (born 21 December 1963 in Detmold) is a German legal scholar and the president of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany.

Lothar Bisky (17 August 1941 – 13 August 2013) was a German politician.

Carl Constantin Heinrich Steffeck (4 April 1818, Berlin – 11 July 1890, Königsberg) was a German painter and graphic artist.

Rudolf Haym (5 October 1821 – 27 August 1901) was a German philosopher.

Christian Gottfried Schütz (19 May 1747 – 7 May 1832) was a German classical scholar and humanist, known for his contributions in philosophy and philology, and for his work as an academic and literary editor and publisher.

Walther Neye (24 July 1901 – 12 August 1989) was a German lawyer.

Friedrich Dingeldey (16 December 1859, Darmstadt – 24 September 1939, Darmstadt) was a German mathematician.

Joybrato Mukherjee (born 29 September 1973) is Professor of English Linguistics and the President of the University of Giessen.

Gesine Schwan (born 22 May 1943) is a German political science professor and member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

Marion Schick (born September 5, 1958) is a German manager, politician and professor.

Rudolf Steinberg (born 23 June 1943 in Cochem, Rhine Province) is professor emeritus for public law and from 2000 to 2008 was president of the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt.

Helmut Kirchberg (31 January 1906 – 23 May 1983) was a German Mining scientist.

Udo J. Hebel (born 24 April 1956) is a German Professor of American studies.

Richard Baldus (11 May 1885, Salonika – 28 January 1945, Munich) was a German mathematician, specializing in geometry.

Rolf Landsberg (February 28, 1920 – December 27, 2003) was a German Professor of Physical Chemistry.

Johann Jakob Müller (31 May 1650 - 13 April 1716) was a German moral philosopher.

Georg Müller (13 October 1917 – 23 December 2004) was a Hungarian born German Agricultural scientist.

Andreas Frey (born 5 June 1967 in Geislingen an der Steige, Germany) is a German economical scientistand Rector of the Nürtingen-Geislingen University of Applied Science (HfWU) for the period 2013 – 2019.

Konrad Schily (born November 7, 1937 in Bochum) was from 2005 to 2009 a member of the German parliament, the Bundestag.

Johann Philipp Palthen (26 June 1672 – 26 May 1710) was a Western Pomeranian historian and philologist.