Origin, objectives, structure
Our origins
The Juristen ALUMNI Würzburg e.V. - An idea takes shape
In the beginning there was the idea: we deliberately set a counterpoint to the anonymity of the mass subject of law. The university is not a "cramming factory", the faculty is not a branch of it, but still a place of comprehensive - i.e. professional and human - education. We want to facilitate contacts and be a platform for all legal disciplines and generations. We offer help. We demand the responsibility of the individual. The initial spark for the development of this idea came from a student at the Würzburg Faculty of Law. He brought the alumni idea back with him from a study visit to the USA. But that was not all. He turned to the right person, the professor of constitutional and administrative law and senior member of the Würzburg professorate, Prof. Dr Franz-Ludwig Knemeyer, who immediately - in the language of a lawyer "without culpable hesitation" - set the course for an alumni association at faculty level. It was agreed that the best place to found an alumni association was the respective faculty, because this is where the alumni spent their learning and teaching time together, so that a sense of community under the umbrella of the university was or is most likely to arise at faculty level, as is the case with American law schools, for example. The faculty level is therefore the first and best place to realise what the Bavarian Higher Education Act demands of universities in Art. 2 Para. 6 S. 5 BayHSchG:
Universities shall promote links with their graduates.
In Bavaria, it is not only democracy that is being built from the bottom up - see Art. 10 Para. 4 of the Bavarian Constitution - the same applies to the alumni idea at the University of Würzburg. The idea began to take shape: The Juristen ALUMNI Würzburg e.V. has been in existence since 1 October 1999!
After fifteen years of development, Juristen ALUMNI Würzburg e.V. now has over 1800 members. Prof Dr Dr Eric Hilgendorf has been Chairman of the Board since mid-2005.
Our goals
Who we are
The Juristen ALUMNI Würzburg e.V. is an association of alumni and current students and teachers associated with the Würzburg Faculty of Law and others who want to support the alumni idea.
What we want
- reactivate the alumni
- strengthen contact with the students
- build a bridge between the generations of lawyers and legal disciplines and, through a new (renewed) identification with the Würzburg Faculty of Law, promote its tasks in teaching and research both ideally and materially
- Attract students to Würzburg
- Improve study conditions
- Promoting internships and doctorates
- Partial or co-financing of tutorials, examinations, corrections, study literature
- Promotion of projects that serve the education of students
- Promotion of academic exchange.
Our events
- Constant information about your study city
- Law market information
- Alumni get-togethers.
Further offers in detail:
- barrier-free access to professors and top alumni
- Free access to alumni and faculty events
- Alumni job exchange: We will bring you to the jobs
- Alumni on-site: We show you where lawyers work
- A forum for the discussion of any study problems
- Platforms for your own "promotion"
- Profile presentation on alumni websites
- Head-hunting without a bounty
- Study support through alumni tutorials
- By taking advantage of our offers, you gain social competence and other soft skills.
Our addressees
We are not a veterans' club, but offer enrolment from the very first semester. Our members belong to all legal professions and all age groups. Even those who used to go to university mainly to get their licences are increasingly joining the Law Alumni. They have recognised the importance of a new culture and are joining the natural-born alumni, doctoral students and former staff at the faculty, who have long formed a network - nurtured by the individual chairs.
With the increased course commitment since the introduction of the new undergraduate programme, students are also becoming more connected to the faculty. They will identify more and more with their fellow students and their faculty. The individualism that has been bred over decades is also on the retreat in Germany among those who have understood that professional qualifications and lifestyle are not determined by hard qualities alone. More and more people are realising that social skills are of paramount importance in the workplace and in everyday life. The more the cultural framework changes in Germany, the more it becomes customary to discuss any issues together because the individual cannot find a solution (anymore), the more the alumni culture will gain a foothold in Germany.
Our structure
General Meeting of Members
The ordinary general meeting takes place once a year. There is also the possibility of an extraordinary general meeting. The general meeting is the creative and supervisory body of the association. It also decides on amendments to the Articles of Association, appointments of honorary chairpersons and honorary members as well as on issues brought to it by the Executive Board or Advisory Board.
Executive Board
The Executive Board manages the day-to-day business of the association. The elected members are elected for a period of two years. These are the Chairperson, the Deputy Chairperson, the Secretary and the Treasurer. The Dean of the Faculty of Law is a natural member of the Board. Its current composition already reflects the range of activities of the lawyers who have come together as alumni of the Faculty of Law at the University of Würzburg. Like a mirror image, so to speak, the Board represents the alumni family on a smaller scale: The Chairman, Professor Dr Dr Eric Hilgendorf, represents the professors; the Deputy Chairman, notary Dr Frank Eckert, represents the judiciary; the Managing Director and Treasurer, lawyer Dr Severin Löffler, represents the legal profession; and finally, the Secretary, Dr Stefanie Nees, represents young legal talent. The Dean, Professor Dr Christoph Teichmann , is currently a further member of the Board. Professor Dr Franz-Ludwig Knemeyer and lawyer Professor Dr Dr hc. Dieter Salch assist the Board of Directors.
