University of Hamburg

About University of Hamburg

As Northern Germany's largest research and educational institution and one of the largest universities in Germany, the University of Hamburg combines a diverse range of courses with excellent research. It offers a broad spectrum of subjects with numerous interdisciplinary focal points and has an extensive network of cooperation with top institutions at regional, national, and international levels. Furthermore, as one of ten universities and a university consortium, the University of Hamburg received the status of an excellence university in the framework of the Excellence Strategy for its concept of a "Flagship University". The University of Hamburg was founded in 1919 on the initiative of Hamburg citizens. Important pioneers of the founding were Senator Werner von Melle and the merchant Edmund Siemers. Nobel Prize winners such as Otto Stern, Wolfgang Pauli, Isidor Rabi, Hans Jensen worked at the University of Hamburg, and it can also look back on numerous well-known scientists, such as Ernst Cassirer, Erwin Panofsky, Aby Warburg, William Stern, Agathe Lasch, Magdalene Schoch, Emil Artin, Ralf Dahrendorf, or Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, to name but a few.