University of Mainz - Alumni

Alumni

Among the notable alumni from the university of Mainz are German politicians Rainer Brüderle (FDP, Federal Minister for Economics and Technology), Horst Teltschik(former Securitiy Advisor of Chancler Helmut Kohl and president of the Munich Conference on Security Policy, Kristina Schröder, Federal Minister of Family and Social Affairs and Franz Josef Jung (CDU, Former Federal Minister of Labor and Social Affairs and former Federal Minister of Defence), as well as sports journalist Béla Réthy, political journalist Peter Scholl-Latour, Dieter Stolte, the former General Intendant of ZDF, the biggest television in Europe, and soprano Elisabeth Scholl. Among the university's notable faculty where theologians like W. Pannenberg, D. Soelle, Herbert Braun, political scientists like Werner Weidenfeld (a foreign politics adviser of Chancler Helmut Kohl, Chemisist Paul J. Crutzen, Nobel-Prize winner 1995, and the economists Klaus Rose, Rolf Peffekoven and Beatrice Weder die Mauro.

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