Promoters at THWS
Promoters are THWS professors and THWS teachers who support the founding of a business and who provide consultancy.
Prof. Dr. Bernd Ankenbrand
Faculty: Business and Engineering
Phone: +49 9721 940- 8419
E-mail: bernd.ankenbrand@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Cost and benefit accounting, controlling and management reporting, business planning
Function as promoter: Information transfer, function as an expert for controlling and business model innovation
Prof. Dr. Stephanie Baumgarten
Faculty: Economics and Business Administration
Phone number: +49 931 3511-8248
E-mail: stephanie.baumgarten[at]thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Financial management, Lean Start-Up, Design Thinking, business model development, Corporate Entrepreneurship
Function as promoter: Mentor, coach, consultancy
Prof. Dr. Harald Bolsinger
Faculty: Economics and Business Administration
Phone number: +49 931 3511-8944
E-mail: harald.bolsinger@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Business ethics, development of organisations & value management, Ethical Leadership, Sustainability Competence
Function as promoter: Expert for value management, sustainability management, business ethics, and Christian spirituality in management
Prof. Dr. Christian J. Bauer
Faculty: Economics and Business Administration
Phone number: +49 931 3511-8981
E-mail: christian.bauer@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: IT-based innovations, digital business models, e-commerce, organisation and business information systems
Function as promoter: Passing on information, function as mentor & coach
Prof. Dipl. Ing. Walter Baur
Faculty: Plastics Engineering and Surveying
Phone: +49 931 3511-8414
E-mail: walter.baur@thws.de
Function as promoter: Passing on information and function as expert
Prof. Dr. Markus Besenbeck
Faculty: Economics and Business Administration
Phone number: +49 931 3511-8034 (E-mail contact preferred)
E-mail: markus.besenbeck@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Marketing, sales, business development, strategies, entrepreneurship, founding a business, media management
Function as promoter: Function as expert for marketing & sales
Prof. Uli Braun
Faculty: Visual Design
Phone: +49 931 3511-9302
E-mail: uli.braun@thws.de
Function as promoter: Passing on information
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Volker Bräutigam
Faculty: Business and Engineering
Phone: +49 9721 940-8595
E-mail: volker.braeutigam@thws.de
Function as promoter: Passing on information, function as mentor & coach, consultancy, first contact
Industry contacts: Design Thinking and lean start-up, expert in lean management, intralogistics and RFID, function as consultant for support and optimisation projects
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Gartzke
Faculty: Faculty of Applied Social Sciences
Phone: +49 931 3511-8907
E-mail: ulrich.gartzke@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Financial management, HR management, social management and organisation, project management, IT applications/digitisation in social work, Economy for the Common Good (ECG)
Function as promoter: First contact, supervision of final theses in the field of entrepreneurship
Prof. Dr. Gerhard Hube
Faculty: Economics and Business Administration
Phone number: +49 931 3511-8873
E-mail: gerhard.hube@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Management, investment management
Function as promoter: Passing on information, function as mentor & coach, first contact
Prof. Dr. habil. Heike Elisabeth Jüngst
Faculty: Applied Natural Sciences and Humanities
Phone: +49 931 3511-8830
E-mail: heike.juengst@thws.de
Function as promoter: Passing on information
Prof. Dr. Nicholas Müller
Faculty: Computer Science and Business Information Systems
Phone: +49 931 3511-8186
E-mail: nicholas.mueller@thws.de
Subject Areas: Socioinformatics, social aspects of digitalisation, human-computer interaction, smart city
Function as promoter: Passing on information, function as expert, mentor & coach
Prof. Dr. Michael Müßig
Faculty: Computer Science and Business Information Systems
Phone: +49 931 3511-9402
E-mail: michael.muessig@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Business management and organisation, innovation management and founding, team management, social and leadership skills, innovation and business model development
Function as promoter: Passing on information, function as expert, mentor & coach
Prof. Dr. Tabea Schmitt
Faculty: Business and Engineering
Phone: +49 931 3511-8538
E-mail: tabea.schmitt(at)thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: SME management, succession in SME management for family businesses, start-up management
Function as promoter: Mentor, coach, consultancy
Prof. Dr. Uwe Sponholz
Faculty: Business and Engineering
Phone: +49 9721 940- 8409
E-mail: uwe.sponholz@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Innovation Management & Design Thinking, Strategic Management, B2B Marketing and Sales.
Function as promoter: Passing on information
Prof. Erich Schöls
Faculty: Visual design
Phone: +49 931 3511-8805
E-mail: erich.schoels@thws.de
Teaching areas: Digital media/interactive media
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Research areas: Applied, interdisciplinary research and development in the field of digital information and communication media (Steinbeis Research Centre for Design and Systems)
Function as promoter: Mentor, coach, consultancy
Prof. Dr. Alexander Versch
Faculty: Mechanical Engineering
Phone: +49 9721 940-8716
E-mail: alexander.versch@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Production engineering, manufacturing automation
Function as promoter: Expert in the field of managing SMEs in the mechanical engineering industry
Consultancy role: Intelligent, mechatronic components and elements
Prof. Dr. Mark Vetter
Faculty: Plastics Engineering and Surveying
Phone: +49 931 3511-8249
E-mail: mark.vetter(at)thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Project management
Subject Areas: GIS, geovisualisation, cartography, Virtual Reality
Function as promoter: Information transfer, function as an expert for controlling and business model innovation
Prof. Dr. Rainer Wehner
Faculty: Economics and Business Administration
Phone number: +49 931 3511-8836
E-mail: rainer.wehner@thws.de
Teaching in the field of entrepreneurship: Business planning, accounting, taxes, strategic management
Function as promoter: Information transfer, expert (in the field of accounting, taxes), mentor, coach, advisory function (in the field of business planning, choice of location and legal form), initial contact
Prof. Dr. Georg Wimmer
Faculty: Applied Natural Sciences and Humanities
Phone: +49 9721 940-8998
E-mail: georg.wimmer@thws.de
Consultation hours during WS 2017/2018:
Thursday 14:15 to 15:15 h, Room 7.E.03 Dean’s office of FANG, please register in advance by e-mail
Areas of activity: Internship coordinator of the Industrial Mathematics degree programme
Function(s): Internet Coordinator of the Faculty of Applied Natural Sciences and Humanities, Manager of the Lab for Numerical Simulation (Schweinfurt), internship coordinator for the Industrial Mathematics bachelor’s programme