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Committees & Organization

Humanities
Centers Berlin e. V.

Next general meeting

Mon. | November 26, 2025 at 1:00 pm

Next meeting of the Board of Trustees

Mon. | May 21, 2024 at 11.00 a.m.

Management
and administration

The management of the GWZ is responsible for the commercial, legal and organizational tasks and is therefore also responsible for the administrative management of the centers. The GWZs also have a joint administration that takes on various science management tasks for the association.

Dr. André Lottmann

Managing Director, Administrative Head of the Centers, Head of Administration

Rebecca Aujla

Assistant to the management

Employees of the administration:

Ingrid Naumann

Organizational development Digitalization

Rebecca Aujla

Assistant to the management

N.N.

Personnel

Laura Graeve

Budget and finances

Sylvia Obeth

Budget and finances

Mareike Wolff

Invoices, travel expense reports

Alexander Becker

Awarding and contracts

Management Board

The members of the GWZ Berlin e. V. Board of Directors are

Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen

Spokeswoman/Member of the Executive Committee
Director of the ZfL

Dr. André Lottmann

Member of the Executive Committee
Managing Director of GWZ

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou

Deputy Spokeswoman of the Management Board
Director of the ZAS

Prof. Dr. Urike Freitag

Member of the Management Board
Director of the ZMO

Board of Trustees

The members of the Board of Trustees of GWZ Berlin e. V. are

a) the grantors

State of Berlin (Chair)

Kerstin Schneider
Senate Department for Science,
Health, care and equality
Head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division,
Supraregional research funding

Federation (Deputy Chair)

Linda Mummer-Göbel
Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities

b) Representatives of the Berlin universities that are linked to the GWZ through joint appointments:

Free University of Berlin

represented by its Vice President for Teaching and Studies,
Prof. Dr. Sven Chojnacki

Humboldt University of Berlin

represented by its Vice President for Studies and Teaching,
Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart

c) The Chairman of the General Meeting

Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim
represented by its Scientific Director, Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin

d) Personalities from science, business or public life

Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers

Humboldt University of Berlin

Prof. Dr. Susann Fischer

University of Hamburg

Stephan Schwarz

GRG

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Vedder

Humboldt University of Berlin

The members of the GWZ Executive Board and the chairmen of the advisory boards also attend the meetings of the Board of Trustees in an advisory capacity.

General meeting

Members of the General Meeting - with voting rights:

Leibniz Institute for the German Language, Mannheim (Chair)

represented by its Scientific Director,
Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin

Free University of Berlin

represented by its Vice President for Teaching and Studies,
Prof. Dr. Sven Chojnacki

Humboldt University of Berlin

represented by its Vice President for Studies and Teaching,
Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart

Berlin University of Technology

represented by the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Education,
Prof. Dr. Beate Krickel

Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities

represented by its President,
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christoph Markschies

Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz

represented by its Secretary General,
Prof. Dr. jur. Claudius Geisler

Current and former directors of the Berlin Humanities Centers

Members of the Board of Trustees also attend the General Meeting in an advisory capacity.

Works Council

Works Council of the Geisteswissenschaftliche Zentren Berlin e. V.

The elected works council represents the rights and interests of all employees vis-à-vis the employer on the basis of the Works Constitution Act (BetrVG).

The works council works confidentially. It is committed to good working conditions, social issues and work-life balance and provides support in the event of work-related problems and conflicts. Employees at ZAS, ZfL and ZMO can address their concerns to the works council as a whole or to any individual member of the works council at any time, not just to the representatives of their own center.

The members of the Works Council are elected for four years by the employees of GWZ. A joint works meeting is held at regular intervals at GWZ, at which the works council provides information about its activities and addresses the wishes and concerns of the workforce.

Georgia Lummert

Chairwoman, ZfL

Judith Lippelt

Deputy Chairwoman, ZfL

Stephanie Solt

Deputy Chairwoman, ZAS

Alisher Karabaev

Deputy Chairman, ZMO

Stefanie Jannedy

ZAS

Aksana Ismaelbekova

ZMO

Matthias Schwartz

ZFL

Jakob Wünsch

ZAS

Contact us

Works Council members at ZAS

Works Council members at ZFL

Works Council members at ZMO

Equality

Mission Statement

The following mission statement is shared by all three Leibniz Institutes (ZfL, ZAS and ZMO) under the auspices of the GWZ Berlin.

The three research centers and the joint administration strive to achieve equal opportunities for all their employees as a central guiding principle of their organizational and personnel development strategies.

The GWZ supports the Leibniz Association's goals of equal opportunities and diversity and firmly opposes discrimination and disadvantage based on ethnic origin, gender, religion and ideology, disability, age and sexual identity in accordance with the General Equal Treatment Act (AGG). The GWZ Berlin, as the responsible body for the three Leibniz institutions, is subject to the Leibniz Association's equality standards and the implementation agreement to the GWK agreement on the equality of women and men in joint research funding (AV-Glei).

It actively works towards equality between women and men in accordance with Article 3 (2) of the Basic Law (GG) and the Berlin State Equal Opportunities Act (LGG). This includes reducing existing discrimination and continuously improving the compatibility of work, private life and family for employees in the academic and research-supporting fields and at all career levels.

The GWZ considers the compatibility of family and career to be an important strategic element in the recruitment and retention of highly qualified employees. It is committed to the early and sustained promotion of female academics, particularly with regard to the critical phases of an academic career, i.e. the transitions between qualification phases.

In areas where women are underrepresented, it strives to increase the proportion of women among employees, particularly at management levels (FSP management, project management), among postdoctoral researchers and in permanent positions. The implementation of the guiding principle of equal opportunities and diversity includes a gender- and diversity-sensitive work and organizational culture at the institute and respectful treatment in everyday work and communication.

The research centers have developed individual equality concepts.

Gender equality concept ZAS
Gender equality concept ZFL
Gender equality concept ZMO

GWZ

Humanities Centers Berlin e. V.