Honorary Doctorates at Paderborn University
The faculties of Paderborn University can award the doctoral degree "honoris causa" for outstanding scientific achievements. Further criteria are the personality of the person to be honored and his/her relation to the university. The person to be honored may not work full-time at the university.
Year of award
2019 Maria von Welser (television journalist), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2017 Prof. Dr. Christiane Floyd (Universität Hamburg), awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
2016 Dr. Frank-Walter Steinmeier (former German Foreign Minister), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2012 Herta Müller (Nobel Prize winner for literature), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
2011 Prof. Dr. sc. techn. Dr. h.c. mult. Alfred Fettweis † (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics
2010 Prof. Dr.-Ing. Manfred Nagl (RWTH Aachen), awarded by the Faculty of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering and Mathematics, Department of Computer Science
2009 Prof. Dr. Bernd Schauenberg (University of Freiburg), awarded by the Faculty of Business Administration and Economics
2009 Dr. Reinhard Höppner † (Mathematician and former Minister President), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Protestant Theology
2005 Andreas Mertin (Protestant theologian and educationalist), awarded by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Institute of Protestant Theology
2000 Prof. Dr. Günter Hotz (Saarland University), awarded by the former Department 17, Subject: Computer Science
1998 Prof. Dr. Albrecht Pietsch (Friedrich Schiller University Jena), awarded by the former Department 17, Subject: Mathematics
1993 Dipl.-Ing. Heinz Hemfort (Member of the Board of Management of Westfalia Separator AG in Oelde), awarded by the former Department 10, Subject: Machine Technology