Endowed Chairs

Founded in 1914 by and for citizens as Germany’s first foundation university, Goethe University Frankfurt has continued in this tradition since it became a foundation university under public law on January 1, 2008. Foundations have always played a special role for the faculty, too.

Today, the Faculty of Economics and Business has the following endowed chairs and junior professorships:

Chair of Monetary Economics: Website
German Insurance Association GDV Chair of Insurance and Regulation: Website
House of Finance Professor (W1) of Real Estate Finance (sponsored by Helaba): Website

Endowed visiting professorships:

Christoph von Metzler Visiting Professorship (Metzler Bank): Website
Metzler and Edmond de Rothschild Bank Visiting Professor in Financial History (Metzler and Edmond de Rothschild Bank): Website
Raymond Barre Endowed Professorship at the Wilhelm Merton-Zentrum (Aventis-Foundation)

Former endowed chairs:

Chair of Private Equity
House of Finance Junior Professor of Real Estate Finance 1 (sponsored by Helaba)
House of Finance Junior Professor of Sustainable Banking (sponsored by DekaBank)
Messe Frankfurt Chair of International Economic Policy
Deutsche Telekom Endowed Chair of Mobile Business and Multilateral Security
House of Finance Endowed Chair of Personal Finance - Sponsored by DZ BANK-Foundation
House of Finance Chair of Sustainable Asset Management - Sponsored by DekaBank
House of Finance-endowed Chair of Sustainable Banking and Finance - endowed by DekaBank
E-Finance-Lab Endowed Junior Professorship of E-Finance & Services Science
Hans Strothoff Endowed Chair of Retailing
BVI Endowed Chair of Investment, Portfolio Management, and Pension Finance
Detlef-Hübner-Endowed Chair of Logistic and Supply Chain Management
E-Finance-Lab Endowed Chair of E-Finance & Securities Trading
E-Finance-Lab Endowed Junior Professorshipof E-Finance & Electronic Markets
Klein&Coll. Endowed Chair of Mergers and Acquisitions in Small Business
House of Finance-endowed Chair of Finance and Accounting - endowed by Helaba Landesbank Hessen-Thüringen
UBS Endowed Chair of Strategic Management
UBS Endowed Chair of Finance (Asset Pricing)
Chair of Finance and Economics (Founder: Foundation "Geld und Währung")
EUREX Endowed Junior Professorship of Derivatives