Professor#Named professorships

As chair or professorship to the scheduled place of a high school teacher named full professor at a university is ( according to Duden also: at any other college) called. Such professors are equipped with human and financial resources to carry out certain tasks in research and teaching. In some subjects we speak instead of workgroup or short AG in Austria by research group.

Professor and holders inside are also referred to as a full professor, full professor or full professor. In the Federal Republic of Germany today they are usually paid in the salary group W3 (formerly C4).

The invitation to a teacher to take on a chair or a chair is referred to as a vocation ( colloquially call). University professor and chair are not necessarily connected to each other - each professor is a professor, but the reverse is not.

Overview

The term is a calque of Greek Chair - Latin cathedra, which can be described as " reading chair " and described the elevated chair of the teacher at a university.

The professor at a university with a Chair ( Chair) is also referred to as full professor ( professor ordinarius ) or full professor. After a high school reform in the 1970s, the title Professor in the Federal Republic of Germany was largely abolished, the name is but 12 para 3 of the Bavarian Higher Education Personnel Act nor mentioned in § as the title and is informally continue to be needed in the other states. In the second half of the 19th century, the term professor, also referred to a class teacher in a secondary school. At some high schools in Austria a class teacher is called so even today.

The term chair is often used as a synonym for the totality of all the employees of the respective professor.

The chair refers to a particular area of ​​expertise, eg Chair Solid State Physics, edited the holder of the chair. The chair is affiliated usually an institute or seminar (in the sense of an educational institution ). There are - especially in smaller compartments - even institutions that consist of only a single chair while it reversed at some universities (eg the University of Konstanz ), although there are chairs, but not institutions.

The faculty or department who has to occupy a vacant chair or a chair, served in Germany usually an elaborate appeals process to seek out a professor. In this case, a commission created a list of appointment proposals, which are usually taken into account by the competent authority.

Extraordinarien or associate professors, however, are professors without chair. In Germany they are mostly grades 2 and W 3 C assigned and have less or no staff positions and lower budget. But you must also prevail on appeal. This distinguishes them and the Chair of unscheduled professors.

Germany

Taught and conducted research in late 2007, according to provisional results of the Federal Statistical Office, 37,700 female and male professors at German universities. While the total number has remained almost unchanged since the mid-1990s, the proportion of women has increased steadily within the faculty since 1995. The proportion of Chair holders grew in this period from 8 % to over 16%. The number of female professors in 2007 reached around 6,100, a new high.

Austria

In Austria, the term professorship was formerly used today neither teaching nor pulpit chair.

The professor had been the ordinary university professor. Since the University Organisation Act of 1993, a distinction is ( there is a difference, however, to the extraordinary university professors a new type, which do not belong spite of the name of the university professors ) is no longer between the ordinary university professors and extraordinary professors of the old type. However, the existing ordinary university professors may continue to call it that.

Famous Chairs

An academic tradition also allows for the designation of chairs according to their legendary predecessors, models or donors, especially in the Anglo-Saxon area. In Germany, where now some chairs were named according to this rule, there is no such tradition. Endowed Chairs often enjoy a high reputation. Three examples:

• The Luca Forensic Chair of Mathematics at Cambridge University, was named after its founder Henry Lucas. The list of his owner is top-class, ranging from Isaac Newton to Stephen Hawking.
• The Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford University is also named after its founder.
• The Freud Memorial Chair at University College London was by Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, named. He, too, was and is with top scientists - as Joseph Sandler, Janine Chasseguet - emery, Hanna Segal and Peter Fonagy - occupied.

Chair as a work of art

The artist Hermann Bigelmayr has the big plastic chair in Weimar front of the main entrance of the new lecture hall and library building of the Bauhaus University - built empty chair. The 20 -ton work of art refers to the university as a teaching institution on the one hand and on the seating chair on the other hand, is fundamentally both in the auditorium and in the reading room of the library.