President-elect shall not in office.

It should be the end of a turbulent year - but the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is again without a president since the beginning of May chosen Reinhard Hütter is not taken up his post. The Catholic Church in Bavaria would not meet its conditions.

 

The only three weeks before the newly elected president of the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Reinhard Hütter, enters his office not entirely surprising.

The Freisinger, the Bishops' Conference as a carrier of the university. We have "talks ahead despite no agreement on conditions for the coming Hütter achieved." The press release of the Bishops' Conference has also been posted on the KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt published.

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The elected president Reinhard Hütter should have demanded too much

"That was a surprise for the university," said a Unisprecher blogs ONLINE. Hütter was on 6 May 2009 from the KU-University with 13 out of 16 votes were elected. The spokesman said that the University Council on 4 June with the deal will proceed. The Catholic University succeeds since roughly a year, a new president to find.

Hütter The cancellation was a "disaster," said Bishop Gregory Eichstätter Maria Hanke of the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. "The reasons revealed no coherent picture," said the bishop, and pointed to "excellent" references for the candidate.

The Bishops' Conference Freisingerstrasse had "requested by Hütter not accept personal terms" - and although "for the protection of KU," said in the statement. Among the conditions were "far-pension assets and the establishment of an endowed professorship is one of the 50-year-old Hütter" after the expiry of the presidency until his retirement should be guaranteed ". This would, according to Episcopal Conference "massive impact on the financial resources of the entire university bear fruit."

Eichstätt bishop appealed to veto candidates

According to the Bishops' Conference is now a new election of the President is required. Until this election should be the interim position will be filled again, it was said.

The theologian Hütter was on Monday afternoon for blogs ONLINE can not be reached. He currently teaches at Duke University in Durham (USA) and is vice president of the Academy of Catholic Theology. "

Almost exactly a year ago, the Bishop Hanke Eichstätter the appointment of Ulrich Hemel as the new President with his veto prevented. The theologian and former top executive was previously the University with a clear majority was elected.

Before No. of Hanke was known that the Vatican refuses Hemel. Hemel life - the clergyman is married for the third time - and his critical attitude toward Pope Benedict XVI as a background were suspected of resistance. Hemel criticized
In an interview with online blogs, we did not provide him with reasons and any "no chance left, a relationship of trust."

Bishop Hanke widened after his veto Hemel his participation at the KU officially: For any future presidential election he secured an indirect pre-law - he must, the list of candidates to view and delete names. The University agreed.

Catholic Church wants durchregieren

Shortly after the failed candidacy of the former Hemel was chancellor of the University, Gottfried Freiherr von der Heydt, on leave with immediate effect. The Senate chairman Maximilianstraße fox came out of his office back.

In November, the Bavarian bishops for renewed controversy at the University: Although they announced that every year 1.3 million euros in addition to the regular budget of the fund goes to university. At the same time, Bishop Hanke, however, the influence of the Catholic Church on the university to expand - suggesting harsh criticism from students and teachers met. The bishops want a higher profile of the university as a Catholic educational institution: "This profile does not only mean the Confessional," said the Archbishop Reinhard Marx of Munich. Rather, this means profiling, "from the horizon of the Christian faith" science activities.

The Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt is unique in the German language area. The university has eight faculties at present, about 50 subjects taught. The approximately 4,600 students from 120 professors and more than 200 scientific staff supervised. The University is approximately three-fourths of the state of Bavaria, a district of the Bavarian bishops funded.