A woman reformed the German university.

No zackiger tone, but a healthy self-confidence: Merith Niehuss is only Bayerns Uni-President and head of the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich. 4000 time soldiers, the historian prepare - at the time without a uniform.
  In the jagged Kommandoton Merith Niehuss not speak, she has a quiet, almost gentle voice. She has not served - their experience with weapons is limited to a hunting license, which she bought years ago. This is not the only unusual in the president of the University of the Bundeswehr in Munich: The 54-year-old is the only university president in Bavaria.
DPADie President: Merith Niehuss stands at the head of the Armed Forces University
And with Niehuss is calculated by a mental scholar at the head of a technically-oriented university, which sometimes even outside of the reputation of a military academy attached. That the professor on women and family habilitation, is another aspect that within the Bundeswehr would be quite unusual.
"You need a broad cross"
Now it would be trite to assume that Niehuss with the arms of a woman known as the university with 4,000 students leads. "You need a broad cross," she says. Niehuss has in the past three years of their six-year term umgekrempelt lot. The Bundeswehr Unibetrieb knows it has been years - from 1999 to 2003, she was already vice-president since 1994 and previously as a professor at the Institute of Modern History operate.
Niehuss had not only the difficult transition to bachelor and master guide. She has contributed to the university in Neubiberg near Munich, also sociopolitically is well positioned. Sun can be found in Munich, not only experts in space technology and satellite navigation systems, but also international law, which deals with the problems of modern piracy on the coast of Somalia employ or the backgrounds of female suicide bombers in international terrorism ausforschen.
These themes width even with the new reality of the graduates a lot to do. For each of the 4,000 students who are as time soldiers have committed themselves to the study could be in Afghanistan or other war zones, where the Bundeswehr is stationed, can be used. After the three-or four-year degree graduates finish their training officer for the rest of the service in the Force.
Niehuss has set new priorities for the students to prepare for increased foreign assignments. On a visit to the troops in Mazar-i-Sharif in Afghanistan met with the President in May this year several of its former students and doctoral candidates again.
Abroad oppress students
"The people are very concerned," she says. "This is not a normal practice used, this is a war, which is held very unequally." The effect on the climate at the University of Munich and, treat the students. "The threat is there, I notice the same here at the students."
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For example, many graduates of the university until the beginning of 30, when the uniform store. The study in the Bundeswehr is shorter than at other universities, the students live on campus, and they will be paid time soldiers, do not have job. Niehuss also advertises with the ratio of 18 students to a scientist at the country's universities is at 60:1.
The proportion of women in the Armed Forces University, however, is quite modest and is only about ten percent. The number of female professors is manageable. "Of the 165 professors can the women in a good two hands to count," says Niehuss.