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Senate and Lower Saxony ministry confirm new executive board at Hannover's HMTMH

The Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover has a new executive board after its senate and the state science ministry confirmed president Jörg Abbing's personnel proposal.

Photo: Christian A. Schröder ( ChristianSchd ) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Why it matters: President Jörg Abbing's personnel proposal for the HMTMH executive board was confirmed by the senate and the Lower Saxony ministry and backed by the university council.

The Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover (HMTMH), a university of music, theatre and media, announced that it has a new presidential board, or Präsidium.

According to the university, both its senate and the Lower Saxony Ministry for Science and Culture confirmed the personnel proposal made by president Prof. Dr. Jörg Abbing.

The university said its Hochschulrat, the university council, had also backed the proposal.

Editor’s view

Richard Davies, Policy and Finance Editor

The HMTMH's new Präsidium rests on president Jörg Abbing's personnel proposal, which the senate and the Lower Saxony ministry confirmed and the university council backed.

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