The Senate of the Ludwigshafen University of Applied Sciences (HWG LU) yesterday elected a new president and chancellor: Prof. Dr. Gunther Piller, currently Dean of the Department of Economics at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, will succeed Prof. Dr. Peter Mudra as president of the university in March 2022. As chancellor, Carolin Nöhrbaß will head the university administration in the future.
During the Senate meeting on October 20, 2021, the leadership positions of President and Chancellor at HWG LU were newly determined by election. The election committee, represented by its chairman, Prof. Dr. Rudolf Mohr, submitted the following results to the election management:
Prof. Dr. Gunther Piller (58) was elected to the position of President. The theoretical physicist with a doctorate and habilitation, business informatics specialist and current dean of the Department of Economics at Mainz University of Applied Sciences, declared to the electoral assembly that he would accept the election. The assumption of the task takes place after the end of the term of office of the current position holder, Prof. Dr. Peter Mudra, to 15.03.2022. Mudra, who has held the presidency since March 2010, had not stood for re-election after 12 years in office.
The Senate elected Carolin Nöhrbaß to the position of chancellor. She also accepted the election during the election meeting. The 41-year-old lawyer has been at the university in Ludwigshafen since 2013, first as an assistant to the then chancellor Klaus Eisold, then as legal advisor and deputy chancellor. Since March 2020, Carolin Nöhrbaß has been entrusted with the business of the chancellor's function. She is scheduled to officially take over the role in the coming weeks.
