Horst Hippler leaves KIT to join HRK

KIT President Professor Horst Hippler leaves the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) to assume full-time responsibilities as President of the Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (HRK - Standing Conference of German University Presidents) in Bonn. He was elected to this post in April. Professor Eberhard Umbach, with whom Hippler has shared the KIT presidency to date, now will be the sole KIT president. Amongst other posts, Hippler was the founding president of the TU9 German Institutes of Technology e. V. association and chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft der technischen Universitäten ARGE TU/TH consortium of technical universities. In October 2002, he was elected president of the University of Karlsruhe. Since the university‘s merger with the Karlsruhe Helmholtz centre and the establishment of the KIT in 2009, he had shared the post of president of the KIT with Eberhard Umbach.

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