Honorary Senators

1992 Dr. h.c. Horst Hirschler
Regional bishop

1989 Prof. Dr. Dr. Helmut Hesse
President at the Federal Reserves (Landeszentralbanken) of Lower Saxony, Sachsen-Anhalt and Bremen

1989 Rolf Möller
Secretary of State and Secretary General of the Volkswagen Foundation

1978 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Eigen
Director at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry



Honorary Citizens and Honorary Members

2010 Herr Prof. Hans Georg Näder
Managing Director of the Otto Bock Firmengruppe

2010 Herr Rainer Hald
Chairman of the Sparkasse Göttingen

2009 Prof. Dr. Kim Chung-Ok
Director of the Kim Hee-Kyung Foundation, Seoul

2008 Gerhard Scharner
Former Chairman of the Sparkasse Göttingen

2007 Peter Brammer
Project Head at the Kinder-Universität Göttingen

1991 Dr. Dr. h.c. Heinz Götze (deceased March 2, 2001)
Co-owner of the Springer publishing house

1987 Dr. Carl-Ernst Büchting
Chairman of the Board of the KWS Saat AG, Einbeck

1983 Dr. Hans Samwer (deceased January 9, 2006)
Managing Director, Göttingen

1983 Horst Sartorius, Göttingen (deceased July, 16 1998)

1982 Prof. David S. Saxon, Ph.D.
Former President of the University of California

1971 Alfred Kubel (deceased May 22, 1999)
Minister President of Lower Saxony, Hanover

1960 Günther Ruprecht (deceased March 17, 2001)
Publisher, Göttingen



University Medal Aureus Gottingensis
for outstanding contributions to the University of Göttingen

2010 Frau Sigrid Lüttge
Chairwoman of the Göttinger Gauß-Kuppel Gemeinschaft e.V.

2009 Hildegunde Willrich
Citizen of Göttingen

1968 Erich Biederbeck (deceased June 17, 2000)
Chief Municipal Director in Göttingen, Kassel

1968 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Emil Woermann (deceased September 15, 1980)
Emeritus Professor of Agricultural Management in Göttingen
Executive board member of the Federal University Association (Universitätsbundes e.V.) (1952 to 1966)

1965 Heinz Hilpert (deceased November 25, 1967)
Director of the Deutsches Theater in Göttingen (1950 - 1966)



Dorothea Schlözer Medal
(founded in 1958 in memory of the doctorate)


2011 Prof. Dr. Helga Nowotny

2009 Prof. Dr. Jutta Limbach

2007 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Mary Osborn

1992 Ingeborg Behr-Hoyer

1987 Dr. Julia Dingwort-Nusseck

1962 Dr. Dr. h.c. Marie-Elisabeth Lüders (deceased March 23, 1966)

1962 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Lise Meitner (deceased October 27, 1968)

1958 Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (deceased December 1, 1990)



Gerlach Adolph von Münchhausen Medal
(founded on the occasion of the 250th anniversary celebration of the University)

1994 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Wolfgang Lücke

1992 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Hans-Jürgen Bretschneider (deceased December 9, 1993)

1989 Dr. h.c. Hans-Ludwig Schneider (deceased January 4, 1996)

1987 Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Friedrich Hund (deceased March 31, 1997)

1987 Prof. Dr. Martin Schwarzschild, Princeton University (deceased April 10, 1997)