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Alumni
Our alumni can be found in all walks of life: in academia, in business, in the arts and culture, in politics, and in sport. We interviewed some of our alumni about their experiences during their studies.
You can read more about our alumni on the alumni web page.
Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert, President of the Federal Parliament
Between 1969 and 1972 Prof. Dr. Norbert Lammert studied Political
Science, Sociology, Newer History and Social Economics at the RUB and
in Oxford. In 1972 he completed his diploma in Social Science at the
RUB. In 1975 he completed his doctorate at the RUB Faculty of Social
Science. Since 1980 Prof. Dr. Lammert has been a member of the Federal
Parliament. From 1989 to 1998 Prof. Dr. Lammert was a Parliamentary
State Secretary in several Federal Ministries. Since 2005, he has been
President of the Federal Parliament. He has been an honorary professor
of the RUB since 2008.
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Dorothee Dzwonnek, General Secretary of the German Research Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
Dorothee Dzwonnek studied law at the Ruhr-Universität and did her
second state examination in 1986. She held several positions afterwards
in which she always remained closely connected to the themes of academia
and research, for instance as Chancellor of the University of Dortmund
and also during her time at the Ministry of Schools, Academia and Research
of the State of NRW. Today, Dorothee Dzwonnek is General Secretary
of the German Research Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft,
DFG), and since 2008, as a member of the RUB University Council, she
has been playing a major part in their destiny.
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Dr
Josef Bausch-Hölterhoff, Government Director of Medicine at Werl
Prison and actor
Dr Josef Bausch-Hölterhoff, also known as Joe Bausch, studied first
dramatics, politics and German studies in Cologne, then law in Cologne
and Marburg. He was also involved in various theatre projects at that
time. He studied medicine at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from 1978
to 1985. Today, Dr Bausch-Hölterhoff is in charge of the medical department
at Werl Prison. Since 1997 he has appeared in more than 20 episodes
of the WDR crime series "Tatort", set in Cologne, alongside
Klaus J. Behrendt and Dietmar Bär, playing pathologist Dr Josef Roth,
and is a consultant for the Münster show in medical questions. He has
also appeared in other productions and writes scripts.
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