Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture

An important sponsor of the faculty is the Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture. The purpose of the Pfeiffer Foundation is to promote science and research, artistic development as well as education and training, primarily in the field of architecture at the University of Kassel, both nationally and internationally.

The Pfeiffer Foundation pursues exclusively non-profit purposes. In particular, it aims to promote innovative and resource-conserving as well as health-friendly and health-promoting processes and products.

Another focus is on internationalisation and international exchange.

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20 years of the Pfeiffer Foundation

Together with many interested visitors, the Pfeiffer Foundation at the Faculty of Architecture, Urban Planning and Landscape Planning (ASL) at the University of Kassel celebrated its 20th anniversary on December 11, 2024. Dr. Oliver Fromm, Chancellor of the University of Kassel and Chairman of the Foundation Board, Prof. Ariane Röntz, Dean of Studies of the ASL Faculty, and Prof. em. Wolfgang Schulze, Board Member and former student of Herbert-Theodor Pfeiffer, thanked the Foundation for its many years of exemplary commitment and invited visitors to look back together.

To the press release (in German only), 12 December 2024

Image: Andreas Fischer
Image: Andreas Fischer

Award-Winning Works

Aims and Organization

Board of Directors
Prof. Wolfgang Schulze

Board of Trustees

  • Dr. Oliver Fromm, Chancellor of the University of Kassel, Chairman
  • Dipl.-Kfm. Peter Basedow, Deputy Chairman, auditor/tax consultant, Hamburg
  • Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Postlep, Marburg, former President of the University of Kassel
  • Prof. Claus Anderhalten, Faculty 06 ASL, University of Kassel
  • Matthias Fleischer, lawyer, Celle

The objectives of the foundation are to be realised by

  • awarding scholarships to students, doctoral candidates and artists
  • awarding prizes for very good theses and dissertations
  • supporting and organizing academic and artistic events
  • supporting research and development projects
  • awarding research contracts and scholarships
  • awarding grants for investments including hardware and software
  • issuing and otherwise promoting relevant publications
  • supporting international exchange, for example through excursions
  • supporting other institutions, facilities and associations that pursue the same purposes as the foundation

Funding applications from the Pfeiffer Foundation should be sent informally to:

Pfeiffer Foundation for Architecture
at the University of Kassel
Prof. Wolfgang Schulze
Gottschalkstraße 30
34127 Kassel

The applications should outline the financing of the respective project.

Prof. Wolfgang Schulze is personally available to answer any questions.

E-mail: pfeifferstiftung[at]uni-kassel[dot]de

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