Gerhard Selmayr (born 1935) is a German lawyer and academic administrator. He served as Chancellor of the

Bundeswehr University Munich image:Eingangsbereich der Universität der Bundeswehr München.jpg, Entrance to the university University of the Bundeswehr Munich (, UniBw München) is one of two research universities in Germany at federal level that both were founded in 1973 a ...

from 1973 to 1978 and as Chancellor of the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; ) is both a German public university, public research university in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, and a research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 when the University of Ka ...

from 1978 to 2000. He studied law and economics from 1954 to 1962 and earned a PhD in law. He worked in the

Ministry of Defence A ministry of defence or defense (see American and British English spelling differences#-ce.2C -se, spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and Mi ...

from 1965 to 1967, including as private secretary to the state secretary. He was private secretary to the German Chancellery Chief of Staff from 1968 to 1969. He is a son of Brigadier General Josef Selmayr, the first Director of the West German Military Counterintelligence Service from 1955 to 1964, and is the father of the European civil servant

Martin Selmayr Martin Selmayr (born 5 December 1970) is a European civil servant from Germany who was Secretary-General of the European Commission from 2018 to 2019 and chief of staff to Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker from 2014 to 2018. During his ...

Honours

Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany The Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (, or , BVO) is the highest state decoration, federal decoration of the Federal Republic of Germany. It may be awarded for any field of endeavor. It was created by the first List of president ...

(1999)Universitätskanzler Dr. Gerhard Selmayr erhält Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Selmayr, Gerhard Jurists from North Rhine-Westphalia People from Bonn 1935 births Living people Recipients of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany