By-Elections in Faculty Civil and Environmental Engineering 2025

The constituency representatives are elected to the committees in a free, equal and secret ballot.

Pursuant to §21 para. 2 ThürHG,
1. the professors form the professors group,
2. the students form the group of students,
3. the academic staff from the group of academic staff group,
4. employees in technical and administrative services, including trainees who have reached the age of majority form the staff group
the  for the representation in the committees.

For the election to the Senate and Faculty Board, the electoral area is the respective faculty.

Everyone at the university belonging to the group of the students in the respective constituency is entitled to vote and is eligible for election. Students enrolled at the university are members of the university.
Only students entered in the electoral register are entitled to vote and eligible for election. It is not possible to be added to the electoral register if enrollment or re-registration takes place less than ten (10) working days before publication of the electoral register. The deadline is 3 September 2025.

Any person who ceases to be a member of the University after the last day of publication of the electoral register shall forfeit his/her right to vote.

The inspection of the Electoral roll is possible in the period from 28 August to 03 September 2025 at the Election office during office hours. Please register in advance.

If an objection is necessary due to a non-registration or incorrect registration, please use the form "Appeal against the Electoral roll".

The elections are conducted as a majority election. Thus, only single nominations are permitted. In the case of majority election, the seats to which the group is entitled in the electoral area shall be allocated to the candidates in the order of the votes they receive, starting with the highest number of votes. In the event that several candidates receive the same number of votes, the decision shall be made by drawing lots by the chairman of the election committee.

Each eligible voter has one vote in their group for the relevant committee.

The deadline for submitting election proposals is 3 September.

Any person entitled to vote can nominate themselves as a candidate or have themselves nominated from their own group and electoral area, provided they are listed in the electoral roll. 

Nominations must be submitted using the online form provided.

• Nomination

The nomination must include the title, surname, first name and faculty of the nominator as well as the surname, first name and faculty of the nominee.

Each nomination must also contain the nominee's declaration of consent, signed or otherwise enabling the nominee to be clearly identified. In particular, the nominee is clearly identifiable if he/she uses the e-mail address assigned by the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (university e-mail address) or if the name of the person making the declaration is otherwise clearly reflected in the declaration or in the e-mail address.

After submitting the nomination, the nominator and the nominee receive a confirmation email that the nomination has been submitted. 

Once the election proposals have been approved by the election committee, the candidates are given the opportunity to introduce themselves personally to the authorised voters by creating a profile. 

The profile is then activated by the electoral office. As soon as the profile is changed, it must be approved again by the electoral office. It is only possible to change profiles until 8 September 2025. The preparation of the profiles is voluntary and must be written in German, optionally in English. The questions asked must be answered.

If no profile is created, the electoral office will create a profile for these candidates with the following information: Committee, first name and surname, electoral group, electoral area.

The profiles can be viewed with Uni-Login at "Candidate profiles".

The elections shall take place entirely online.

Online voting will take place during the scheduled period 9 September 2025 (starting at 9 am) - 11 September 2025 (ending at 11.59 pm).
Eligible voters will be informed by e-mail about the upcoming election and will receive the link to the election portal. Eligible voter must log in with his/her university account to receive the access data to the election portal (voter ID and password). In the next step, a link leads to the election portal, where the eligible voter can participate in the election with his/her access data.
The online election is governed by §§ 29(a) to 29(e) of the WahlO (Wahlordnung der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar). The online election is conducted through services provided POLYAS GmbH.