TUM Board of Trustees
The Board of Trustees is TUM's central supervisory body. It has 20 voting members made up of ten external members, who are are prominent leaders in the fields of science, culture, business and politics, and the ten elected members of the TUM Senate.
Chair
Prof. Dr.
Heyo K. Kroemer
Chief Executive Officer
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Members
Ilse Aigner
President of the Bavarian Parliament
Prof. Dr.
Patrick Cramer
President of the Max Planck Society
Prof.
Heather Hofmeister, Ph.D.
Professor for Sociology with the specialty in the Sociology of Work
Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.
Co-Director
CLBO – Center for Leadership and Behavior in Organizations
Dipl.-Ing.
Laura Lammel
CEO
Lammel Bau GmbH & Co. KG,
LAMMEL.digital
Prof. Dr.
Martin Plendl
Former Chief Executive Officer
Deloitte DCE
Dr.-Ing.
Reinhard Ploss
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Knorr-Bremse AG
Prof. Dr.-Ing.
Wolfgang Reitzle
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Continental Corporation
Maximilian Schöberl
General Manager and
Head of Corporate Communications and Politics
BMW Group
Stefan Vilsmeier
Chief Executive Officer
Brainlab AG
Internal members
The 10 internal members are the elected members of the TUM Senate.
The TUM Board of Trustees makes decisions on
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regulations issued by the university
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proposals for the appointment of the Chancellor
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the University's development plan
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proposals for the organisation of the university into faculties
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the establishment / modification / cancellation of study programmes
elects
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the President
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elects the Senior Vice Presidents (with the exception of the Chancellor) on the proposal of the President and decides on their dismissal
gives its opinion
- on the establishment / modification / cancellation of scientific and artistic institutions and operating units
- on the estimates for the state budget / the draft business plan
The TUM Board of Trustees has 20 voting members made up of 10 external members and the 10 elected members of the Senate. The chair of the Board of Trustees is held by one of the external members. The deputy chair is the chair of the TUM Senate. The TUM Board of Management, the university's gender equality officer and the representative of the assembly of doctoral candidates attend the meetings in an advisory capacity.
The TUM Board of Trustees has existed in its present form since 1 October 1999. Introduced and successfully tested by TUM, this setup was the first of its kind at a German university.