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
Employees of the administration:
N.N.
Sylvia Obeth
Management Board
The members of the GWZ Berlin e. V. Board of Directors are
Prof. Dr. Eva Geulen
Director of the ZfL
Dr. André Lottmann
Managing Director of GWZ
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Artemis Alexiadou
Director of the ZAS
Prof. Dr. Urike Freitag
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)
Senate Department for Science,
Health, care and equality
Head of the Humanities and Social Sciences Division,
Supraregional research funding
Federation (Deputy Chair)
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
Prof. Dr. Sven Chojnacki
Humboldt University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart
c) The Chairman of the General Meeting
represented by its Scientific Director, Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin
d) Personalities from science, business or public life
Prof. Dr. Christoph Möllers
Prof. Dr. Susann Fischer
Stephan Schwarz
Prof. Dr. Ulrike Vedder
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)
Prof. Dr. Henning Lobin
Free University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Sven Chojnacki
Humboldt University of Berlin
Prof. Dr. Niels Pinkwart
Berlin University of Technology
Prof. Dr. Beate Krickel
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christoph Markschies
Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz
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
Judith Lippelt
Stephanie Solt
Alisher Karabaev
Stefanie Jannedy
Aksana Ismaelbekova
Matthias Schwartz
Jakob Wünsch
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GWZ Works Council
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.
10719 Berlin