From Johann Nepomuk Schwerz, the first director of the Hohenheim Agricultural Institute, to the current president, Professor Dr. Christoph Schneider, Hohenheim has been represented by a total of 46 directors and presidents over the past 200 years.
Christoph Schneider Professor of Climate Geography since 2025 President of the University of Hohenheim
Stephan Dabbert Professor of Production Theory and Resource Economics in Agriculture 2012-24 President of the University of Hohenheim
Hans-Peter Liebig Professor of Vegetable Cultivation
2002-12 President of the University of Hohenheim
Klaus Macharzina Professor of Business Administration
1994-2002 President of the University of Hohenheim
Wolfgang Haubold Professor of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry
1990-94 President of the University of Hohenheim
Erwin Reisch Professor of Applied Farm Management
1986-90 President of the University of Hohenheim
George Turner Professor of Legal Science
1970-86 President of the University of Hohenheim
Günther Siebert Professor of Nutritional Physiology
1969-70 President of the University of Hohenheim
Helmut Röhm Professor of Agricultural Policy and Agricultural Socioeconomics
1967-69 President of the University of Hohenheim
Walter Rentschler Professor of Physics and Meteorology
1965-67 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Günther Franz Professor of History and Agricultural History
1963-65 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Georg Baur Professor of Farm Management
1962-63 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Otto Pflugfelder Professor of Zoology
1960-62 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Walther Brouwer Professor of Field and Crop Cultivation
1958-60 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Georg Schwarz Professor of Farm Technology
1956-58 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Bernhard Rademacher Professor of Plant Protection
1954-56 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Kurt Maiwald Professor of Plant Nutrition
1952-54 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Walther Fischer-Schlemm Professor of Farm Mechanical Engineering
1951-52 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Jonas Schmidt Professor of Animal Breeding
1949-51 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Max Rüdiger Professor of Farm Technology
1947-49 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
Emil Lowig Professor of Field and Crop Cultivation
1945 President of the Hohenheim Agricultural College
