Honorary Doctors of the University of Greifswald

The title of Honorary Doctor (Dr. h. c.) can be awarded by a faculty, according to their doctoral regulations and on agreement with the Senate, to a person who has delivered outstanding achievements for academia.

Since the 9th November 1989, the University of Greifswald’s faculties have awarded the title of Honorary Doctor to the following People:

Faculty of Theology

14/11/1989 – Dr. Manfred Stolpe, Consistorial President (1936–2019)

13/11/1990 – Prof. Dr. Roderich Schmidt, Chairman of the Pommersche Kommission (1925–2011)

06/07/2001 – Prof. Dr. Eberhard Jüngel, Systematic Theologian, University of Tübingen (*1934)

14/05/2004 – Prof. em. Dr. Dr. h. c. Erich Gräßer, Professor for New Testament Theology at the Universities of Bochum and Bonn (1927–2017)

25/10/2006 – William Wolff, State Rabbi, London/Schwerin (1927–2020)

25/10/2006 – Piotr Gas, Senior Consistorial Councillor, Szczecin (*1959)

18/11/2016 – Dr. Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of Uppsala, Head of the Church of Sweden (*1955)

Faculty of Law and Economics

12/05/1994 – Jacques Delors, 1985 - 1995 President of the European Commission (*1925)

19/01/1996 – Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans-Heinrich Jescheck, former Director of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law, Freiburg im Breisgau (1915–2009)

28/01/2000 – Prof. Dr. Kjell Åke Modéer, Law Historian at the University of Lund, Sweden (*1939)

17/11/2006 – Rudolf Mellinghoff, President of the Federal Fiscal Court, Munich (*1954)

21/11/2008 – Prof. Dr. Dirk van Zyl Smit, University of Nottingham (*1949)

University Medicine Greifswald

06/03/1990 – Prof. Dr. Horst Frunder, Biochemist, University of Jena (1919–2012)

24/06/1994 – Prof. Dr. Hans-Klaus Zinser, Gynaecologist (1912–1997)

05/05/1995 – Hannelore Kohl, President of the ZNS - Hannelore Kohl Stiftung (1933–2001)

23/04/1996 – Prof. em. Dr. Dr. Bengt Scherstén, Community Medicine, University of Lund, Sweden (1929–2009)

28/10/1996 – Prof. Dr. Gert Riethmüller, Immunologist, University of Munich (*1934)

10/07/1998 – Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Lindemann, Gynaecologist, Hamburg (1920–2012)

06/03/2002 – Prof. Dr. Jürgen van de Loo, Internist, University of Münster (1932–2016)

26/11/2004 – Prof. Dr. Dietrich Niethammer, University Children’s Hospital Tübingen (1939–2020)

07/07/2006 – Horst Dieter Marheineke, Secretary General and Board Member of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, Essen (*1935)

17/10/2006 – Prof. Dr. Berthold Beitz, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, Essen (1913–2013)

21/11/2008 – Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. Friedrich Wilhelm Ahnefeld, Anaesthetist, Ulm (1924–2012)

Faculty of Arts and Humanities

08/06/1990 – Wolfgang Koeppen, Writer (1906–1996)

28/09/1990 – Helmhold Schneider, Entrepreneur (*1925)

15/11/1991 – Prof. Dr. Hildegard Emmel, Germanist (1911–1996)

20/10/1993 – Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Friese, Linguist and Literary Scholar (1924–2008)

05/04/1995 – Günther Petersen, Journalist, Bad Nauheim (1920–2013)

08/11/1996 – Prof. em. fil. toht. Terho Itkonen, Fennist, University of Helsinki (1933–1998)

09/07/1999 – Prof. em. Dr. phil. Erik Lönnroth, University of Gothenburg (1910–2002)

07/11/2001 – Prof. Dr. Theodore Ziolkowski, Germanist, Princeton University (*1932)

07/07/2006 – Prof. Dr. Matti Klinge, University of Helsinki (*1936)

14/05/2008 – Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Stanford University (*1948)

04/02/2012 – Dr. Raimund Fellinger, Editor-in-Chief Suhrkamp Verlag (1951–2020)

01/10/2021 – Prof. Dr. Kaisa Häkkinen, University of Turku (*1950)

Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

24/04/1992 – Prof. Dr. Dieter Behrens, Chemist (1926–1992)

09/12/1994 – Prof. Dr. Günter Ecker, Physicist (1924–2014)

12/06/1998 – Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Klaus Pinkau, Scientific Director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Garching (*1931)

17/06/2004 – Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Volker Storch, Professor for Animal Morphology and Ecology at the University of Heidelberg (*1943)

14/11/2008 – Prof. Dr. Bernhard Klausnitzer, Entomologist (*1939)