Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
President of the DFG from 2013-2019
President of the DFG Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
President of the DFG Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
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President of the DFG Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
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President of the DFG Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
© DFG / David Ausserhofer
President of the DFG Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
© DFG / Bildschön
President of the DFG Professor Dr. Peter Strohschneider
© DFG / Bildschön
Born 1955 in Stuttgart
married, three children
Curriculum Vitae
| Year | Description |
| 1975 – 1982 | Studies in German Philology, Law, History, Sociology and Political Sciences, University of Munich |
| 1982 | Teaching qualification for higher secondary schools |
| 1984 | Doctorate in Medieval German Literature, University of Munich |
| 1991 | Habilitation in Medieval and Early Modern German Language and Literature, University of Munich |
| 1992 – 2002 | Chair of German Medieval and Early Modern Studies, Dresden University of Technology |
| 2001 | Chair of German Medieval Studies, University of Tübingen (declined) |
| Since 2002 | Professor, Chair of German Medieval Studies, University of Munich |
| 2008 | Chair of German Medieval Studies, Free University of Berlin (declined) |
Professional Affiliations
| Year | Description |
| 1996 – 2002 | Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Saxon State and University Library Dresden |
| 1997 – 1999 | Second Spokesman of the Collaborative Research Centre 537 “Institutionality and Historicity”, Dresden University of Technology |
| 2000 – 2002 | Spokesman of the European Doctorate Program "Institutional Systems, Scripture, and Symbols", Dresden University of Technology and École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe Section), Paris |
| 2001 – 2004 | Member of the Executive Board of the German Confederation of German Scholars |
| 2003 – 2011 | Member of the Collaborative Research Centre 573 "Pluralization and Authority in Early Modern History (15th-17th Century)", University of Munich |
| 2004 – 2006 | Initiator and Spokesperson of the International Doctorate Program "Premodern Textuality", University of Munich |
| 2005 – 2011 | Member of the Wissenschaftsrat (German Sciences and Humanities Council) and as of 2006 Chairman of the Wissenschaftsrat |
| Since 2008 | Member of the Jury for the "Universitas-Prize for Science Journalism" of the Hanns Martin Schleyer Foundation |
| Since 2010 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the German Museum, Munich Member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities (KWI), Essen membership suspended through 2019 |
| Since 2011 | Member of the Selection Committee of the Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation for the Allocation of the Alexander von Humboldt Professorship - International Award for Research in Germany |
| 2011 – 2012 | Member of the Foundation Council of Georg-August-University Göttingen |
| 2011 – 2014 | Member of the Jury for the Leading-Edge Cluster Competition of the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) |
| 2012 | Member of the International Consulting Committee of the National Research Foundation of Korea |
| 2012 – 2016 | Chair of the Jury for the "Academy Prize of Rhineland-Palatinate" (Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz) |
| Since 2013 | President of the German Research Foundation (DFG) Member of the Advisory Scientific Council of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation Member of the Jury for the Georg von Holtzbrinck Prize for Science Journalism |
| Since 2014 | Chair of the Expert Commission for the Elite Network of Bavaria suspended through 2019 |
| Since 2015 |
Chair of the Baden - Württemberg Expert Council on Strengthening Small Academic Disciplines, |
Scholarships, Awards
| Year | Description |
| 1977 – 1982 | Scholarship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes) |
| 1989 – 1991 | Habilitation Scholarship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) |
| 1992 | Annual Prize of the University of Munich |
| 2001 | Visiting Professor at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (IVe Section: Sciences historiques et philologiques), Paris |
| Since 2010 | Ordinary Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences |
| 2010 | Officer’s Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2011 – 2012 | Senior Research Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) of the University of Freiburg |
| 2012 | Dagmar Westberg-Visiting Professorship for the Humanities, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main |
| Since 2012 | Ordinary Member of the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea |
| Since 2013 | Ordinary Member of the Academia Europaea. The Academy of Europe Ordinary Member of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering |
| Since 2014 | Ordinary Member of the Leopoldina – German National Academy of Sciences |
| Since 2017 | Member of the Board of Trustees of acatech – National Academy of Science and Engineering |
| Since 2017 | Member of the Board of Trustees of the Centres for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Berlin e.V. membership suspended through 2019 |