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Office of Recruitment and Admissions
Reinhold H. Geimer
Bologna alumnus from the Class of 1957, and Faculty member
(1957-1962), Reinhold H. Geimer decided to generously respond to
the Bologna Building Campaign appeal by naming a room, notably
the Director of Recruitment and Admissions' Office.
Reinhold Geimer was born in 1924 at Wissen/Sieg (near Bonn) as the third of five children
(four boys and a girl). As a member of the selection committee of the German Academic Exchange
Service (Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst/DAAD), he met C. Grove Haines,
the founding director of the Bologna Center, in 1955 who invited him to Bologna.
In the autumn of 1956 he took part in the Center's program and passed the examinations
with distinction. Soon afterwards a letter from Haines reached him saying that he and his colleagues
would be happy if he could join the Center's staff. Reinhold agreed, and from 1957 to 1962
he worked in Bologna. He was special assistant to Haines, and helped with fundraising, press relations,
program proposals and finding good European lecturers. He directed a German language
course and—for those students who spoke German—lectured on Intra-German Affairs and Issues
of Foreign Policy.
During his years in Bologna Reinhold Geimer was also in charge of the annual one-week visit
to the European Union, where the Center's students had the chance to discuss topical issues with
high-level EU representatives in Brussels, Luxembourg and Strasbourg.
After six years in Bologna, Reinhold accepted an offer from the Donors Association for
Promoting Arts and Sciences (Stifterverband fur die Deutsche Wissenschaft) in Essen. Finally, from
1971 to 1989, he was chief of international relations at the Federal Academy for Public Administration,
the central institution in Germany for the training of higher civil servants.
"The years at the Bologna Center improved my knowledge of international relations and made
me efficiently work for a better understanding between people and nations," says Dr. Geimer.
Prior to this gift, Dr. Geimer also contributed to the Bologna Center Special Fellowship Project
and to the Steven Muller German Chair. |
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