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1. 1. Gunda Röstel
   2. Martin Richter

Gunda Röstel

At its meeting on September 13, 2023, the Senate decided to make Gunda Röstel, former Chairwoman of TU Dresden's University Council, an Honorary Citizen of TU Dresden. The honorary citizenship ceremony was held on June 13, 2024 in the Ballroom of the Rector's Office.

As a thank you, Gunda Röstel was presented with artwork by the scientist Iaroslav Babenko entitled "Gray-Scott-morphospace." The picture was submitted in 2021 by PhD student Iaroslav Babenko to the Scientific Image Contest of the former Cluster of Excellence cfaed.

Gunda Röstel works with great commitment, selflessness, and for the good of the community. As Chairwoman of TU Dresden's University Council, she was a stroke of luck. She was already a voting member of TU Dresden's Advisory Board, the predecessor body to the University Council. When the University Council was established in 2010 with new tasks and responsibilities, she was involved from the outset and also became its first Chairwoman. She fulfills her role - a mixture of overseeing, advising and advocating for the university - with great dedication. For someone of her stature, this alone is well within the expected range and, taken in isolation, falls short of the threshold for an award. Therefore, we draw special attention to both the results and the way in which Gunda Röstel is committed to science.

Three aspects are particularly noteworthy:

• Her commitment is characterized by great mediation skills within the university and her never-ending networking efforts between societal stakeholders from business, science and politics. Examples of this are her work on the Coal Structure Commission, the Saxony Innovation Advisory Council and her activities on behalf of Local Agenda 21.
• The way in which Gunda Röstel carries out her social commitment is striking and particularly worthy of recognition. She is guided by a firmly rooted ethical compass that is equally oriented towards environmental issues and social cohesion. Her actions are always guided by decision-making criteria informed by an intellectual understanding of the issues raised. This makes her a role model for women as well as for students and young managers.
• Since 2010, she has chaired the Selection Committees for the University Executive Board elections, and her astute and thoughtful work has been exemplary in shaping the process of recruiting external candidates from across Germany for the University Executive Board, as opposed to the traditional purely internal elections.

Also remarkable is the calm yet precise matter-of-factness and her unerring sense of humor with which she has performed the highly responsible and time-consuming task of serving on TU Dresden's University Council for years without compensation.

Martin Richter

In their meeting on November 13, 2019, the Senate of TU Dresden resolved to award
Martin Richter, former Executive Director of Studentenwerk Dresden, Honorary Citizenship of TU Dresden. Martin Richter is the first Honorary Citizen of TU Dresden.

News article on the appointment as Honorary Citizen