University of Potsdam

The University of Potsdam, in German Universität Potsdam, is a public university in Potsdam, the capital of the state of Brandenburg in north-eastern Germany, and the largest university in that state, with 19,691 students enrolled in the winter semester of 2024/25.波茨坦大学（德语 Universität Potsdam）是德国东北部勃兰登堡州首府波茨坦的一所公立大学，也是该州规模最大的大学，2024/25 冬季学期注册学生为 19691 人

It was formed in 1991 by the amalgamation of the Karl Liebknecht College of Education and the Brandenburg State College together with several smaller institutions, and its teaching still emphasises teacher training, with more than 4,600 students in teacher education.该校于 1991 年由卡尔·李卜克内西教育学院与勃兰登堡州立学院合并、并整合若干较小机构而成，其教学至今仍以师资培养为重心，师资教育项目有 4600 多名学生

Some 8,000 people work in scholarship and science at the university, whose annual budget of about 194 million euros is supplemented by third-party funding of 59.9 million euros in the most recent reporting year.该校约有 8000 人从事学术与科学工作，其约 1.94 亿欧元的年度预算之外，还在最近一个报告年度争取到 5990 万欧元的第三方经费

History

• The University of Potsdam was created in 1991 by merging the Karl Liebknecht College of Education and the Brandenburg State College with several other smaller institutions of the Potsdam area.波茨坦大学于 1991 年由卡尔·李卜克内西教育学院与勃兰登堡州立学院合并，并整合波茨坦地区若干较小机构而成

• As the university largely emerged from a college of education, emphasis is still placed today on teacher training, a tradition that reaches back to its founding institutions.由于该校在很大程度上脱胎于一所教育学院，师资培养至今仍受重视，这一传统可上溯至其前身各机构

• On 1 January 1991 the law faculty of the Brandenburg State College in Potsdam was founded, one of the earliest organisational steps towards the new university.1991 年 1 月 1 日，波茨坦的勃兰登堡州立学院法学院成立，这是迈向新大学最早的组织步骤之一

• On 24 June 1991 the Landtag of Brandenburg passed the state law on higher education institutions, providing the legal basis for the new university.1991 年 6 月 24 日，勃兰登堡州议会通过该州高等教育机构法，为新大学提供了法律依据

• On 4 July 1991 the Brandenburg science ministry appointed Professor Rolf Mitzner as founding rector and installed a founding senate to organise the new institution.1991 年 7 月 4 日，勃兰登堡州科学部任命 Rolf Mitzner 教授为筹建校长，并设立筹建评议会以组织这所新机构

• In July 2016 the university marked its twenty-fifth anniversary, by which time it had become a fixed point in the research landscape of the capital region.2016 年 7 月，该校迎来建校二十五周年，此时它已成为首都地区科研格局中的一个稳定支点

• The university library and the Institute of History occupy part of the commons in the park of Sanssouci at the New Palace, while the Institute of Mathematics is housed in the former stables.该校图书馆与历史研究所占用无忧宫公园内新宫公共服务楼的一部分，数学研究所则设于旧时的马厩建筑中

• The oldest buildings of the Golm campus were built in the 1930s to house the intelligence department of the Luftwaffe, and after the Second World War they held the College of Law of the East German Ministry for State Security.戈尔姆校区最古老的建筑建于 1930 年代，原为德国空军情报部门用房，二战后则容纳东德国家安全部法学院

• The current law faculty in Babelsberg and Griebnitzsee occupies the former presidial and administrative buildings of the German Red Cross, erected in 1939 and 1940.现位于巴贝尔斯贝格与格里布尼茨湖的法学院，占用德国红十字会 1939 与 1940 年修建的旧主席团与行政楼

• Other lecture halls and buildings were built in the 1950s directly behind Schloss Babelsberg for the Academy of Justice and for the East German state.另一些讲堂与楼宇于 1950 年代紧邻巴贝尔斯贝格宫修建，供司法学院与东德国之用

• In 2009 the University of Potsdam became a winner in the Excellence in Teaching initiative of the Stifterverband for the German science system.2009 年，波茨坦大学在德国科学捐助者协会发起的「教学卓越」计划中成为获奖高校

• The Hasso Plattner Institute for Software Systems Engineering, founded with the support of the SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner, became the first completely privately financed university institute in Germany.在 SAP 联合创始人 Hasso Plattner 支持下创办的哈索·普拉特纳软件系统工程研究所，成为德国第一个完全由私人出资的大学机构

• The Digital Engineering Faculty, run jointly by the university and the Hasso Plattner Institute, is the first privately funded department of a German public university.由该校与哈索·普拉特纳研究所合办的数字工程学院，是德国公立大学的第一个私人出资院系

• In 2021 the Institute of Computer Science moved to the Golm campus following a donation for a new building by the Hasso Plattner Foundation.2021 年，计算机科学研究所迁往戈尔姆校区，其新楼得益于哈索·普拉特纳基金会的捐赠

• The Abraham Geiger College, established in Potsdam, is the first rabbinical seminary founded in Central Europe after 1945, training rabbis and cantors for communities across Central and Eastern Europe.设于波茨坦的亚伯拉罕·盖格学院是 1945 年后中欧第一所犹太教拉比神学院，为中欧与东欧各地的社群培养拉比与唱诗班领唱

• The intellectual roots of that college lie in 1836, when Abraham Geiger called for a Jewish theological department at a German university dedicated to tradition in the spirit of academic freedom.该学院的思想根源可溯至 1836 年，当时亚伯拉罕·盖格呼吁在德国大学设立犹太神学系，以学术自由的精神守护传统

• When the Nazis closed the Higher Institute for Jewish Studies in Berlin in 1942, it ended an era of Jewish scholarship that the Potsdam college later set out to continue.1942 年纳粹关闭柏林的犹太学高等研究所，终结了犹太学术的一个时代，而波茨坦的这所学院后来致力于将其延续

• The university's founding concept foresaw close cooperation between the natural sciences and extramural research institutions in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, an approach praised early by the German Council of Science and Humanities.该校的建校构想即已预见自然科学与柏林-勃兰登堡地区校外研究机构的紧密合作，这一路径早期便受到德国科学与人文理事会的肯定

• At the beginning of the winter semester of 2020/2021 roughly 22,000 young people were studying at the University of Potsdam, a figure that had edged down to 19,691 by the winter semester of 2024/25.在 2020/2021 冬季学期伊始，波茨坦大学约有 22000 名学生；到 2024/25 冬季学期，这一数字已小幅回落至 19691 人

Academics

• The university is organised into faculties that include the Faculty of Law, the Faculty of Arts, the Faculty of Human Sciences, the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences, the Faculty of Science and the Digital Engineering Faculty.该校按学院组织，包括法学院、文学院、人文科学学院、经济与社会科学学院、理学院以及数字工程学院

• A further unit, the Faculty of Health Sciences, is a joint faculty still under development with the Brandenburg Medical School Theodor Fontane and the Brandenburg University of Technology.此外，健康科学学院是一个仍在建设中的联合学院，由该校与特奥多尔·冯塔内勃兰登堡医学院及科特布斯-森夫滕贝格勃兰登堡工业大学合办

• The University of Potsdam offers some 170 degree programmes, and it is not considered a Volluniversität because it lacks degree programmes in medicine and engineering.波茨坦大学开设约 170 个学位项目，因缺少医学与工程类学位项目，并不被视为全科大学

• With more than 4,600 students in teacher education, the university is the largest teacher-training institution in the state of Brandenburg.该校师资教育项目有 4600 多名学生，是勃兰登堡州规模最大的师资培养机构

• In the winter semester of 2024/25, 19,691 students were enrolled, international students made up 15 per cent of the student body, and 4,532 new students took up their studies.在 2024/25 冬季学期，注册学生为 19691 人，国际学生占学生总数的 15%，共有 4532 名新生入学

• Student numbers by faculty in the winter semester of 2023/24 included 4,815 in the Faculty of Arts, 4,737 in the Faculty of Science, 3,925 in Human Sciences, 3,242 in Economics and Social Sciences, 2,668 in Law and 1,015 in Digital Engineering.2023/24 冬季学期各学院学生数包括：文学院 4815 人、理学院 4737 人、人文科学学院 3925 人、经济与社会科学学院 3242 人、法学院 2668 人、数字工程学院 1015 人

• The Hasso Plattner Institute trains about 450 highly selected students in bachelor's and master's programmes with roughly a dozen professors and more than fifty visiting professors and lecturers.哈索·普拉特纳研究所以约十余名教授与五十多位客座教授和讲师，培养约 450 名经过严格选拔的本科与硕士学生

• Five of the university's eight research focus areas belong to the Faculty of Science, namely Earth Sciences, Functional Soft Matter, Functional Ecology and Evolution, Complex Systems, and Plant Genomics and Systems Biology.该校八个研究重点领域中有五个属于理学院，即地球科学、功能性软物质、功能生态与演化、复杂系统，以及植物基因组学与系统生物学

• More than 40 joint professorships link the university with the Max Planck Society, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the Helmholtz Association, the Leibniz Association and the Hasso Plattner Institute.40 多个联合教席把该校与马克斯·普朗克学会、弗劳恩霍夫协会、亥姆霍兹联合会、莱布尼茨联合会及哈索·普拉特纳研究所联系起来

• The Potsdam Center for Public Policy and Management has earned the university a reputation as a leading competence centre for governance and the public sector in Germany.波茨坦公共政策与管理中心为该校赢得了德国治理与公共部门研究领先重镇的声誉

• The Moses Mendelssohn Center for European-Jewish Studies owns a publicly accessible specialist library that currently holds around 50,000 volumes.摩西·门德尔松欧洲犹太研究中心拥有一座向公众开放的专门图书馆，现藏约 50000 册图书

• The Potsdam Graduate School promotes accredited doctoral candidates and post-doctorals and works to improve the transparency of doctoral procedures and the quality of supervision.波茨坦研究生院支持已获资格的博士生与博士后，并致力于提升博士程序的透明度与指导质量

• The university confers degrees ranging from the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Science to the Master of Laws, Master of Public Management and the Master of European Governance and Administration.该校授予的学位横跨文学学士、教育学学士与理学学士，直到法学硕士、公共管理硕士与欧洲治理与行政硕士

• The Language Centre offers students of all faculties courses in many languages across proficiency levels and holds the collegial certificate of international accreditation from UNIcert.语言中心为各学院学生提供多种语言、覆盖不同水平的课程，并持有 UNIcert 国际认证的联合证书

• The Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, run in cooperation with Stanford University, integrates product design, engineering and business management education.与斯坦福大学合作开办的哈索·普拉特纳设计研究所，把产品设计、工程与工商管理教育融为一体

• The university maintains cooperative agreements with more than 30 non-university research institutions in the Berlin-Brandenburg region, including the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam.该校与柏林-勃兰登堡地区 30 多个校外研究机构保持合作协议，包括波茨坦气候影响研究所与波茨坦亥姆霍兹中心

• Students in Brandenburg pay no tuition, but a semester administrative fee that includes a public-transport ticket for Berlin and Brandenburg amounted to about 270 to 304 euros in recent years.勃兰登堡的学生无需缴纳学费，但每学期需缴一笔行政费用，其中包含柏林与勃兰登堡的公共交通票，近年金额约在 270 至 304 欧元之间

Campus

• The University of Potsdam is the largest university in Brandenburg and spreads mainly across three campuses on the edges of the city, at Am Neuen Palais, Golm and Babelsberg.波茨坦大学是勃兰登堡州规模最大的大学，主要分布在城市边缘的三个校区：新宫校区、戈尔姆校区与巴贝尔斯贝格校区

• The main campus at Am Neuen Palais stands in the immediate proximity of Park Sanssouci, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and includes the Auditorium Maximum and the university administration.位于新宫的主校区紧邻被联合国教科文组织列为世界遗产的无忧宫公园，校内设有大讲堂与大学行政部门

• The Golm campus houses most institutes of the Faculty of Science and the Faculty of Human Sciences, forming one of the largest science parks in the region.戈尔姆校区容纳理学院与人文科学学院的大多数研究所，构成该地区规模最大的科学园之一

• Three Max Planck Institutes and two Fraunhofer Institutes have settled in Golm, together with the start-up centre GO:IN, giving the campus a strong applied-research profile.三家马克斯·普朗克研究所与两家弗劳恩霍夫研究所已落户戈尔姆，连同创业中心 GO:IN，使该校区具有鲜明的应用研究特色

• Campus Griebnitzsee, in Babelsberg, lies along the city border with Berlin not far from the famous Babelsberg film studios, and houses the law and economics faculties.位于巴贝尔斯贝格的格里布尼茨湖校区紧邻与柏林交界处，距著名的巴贝尔斯贝格电影制片厂不远，设有法律与经济两学院

• The new main campus at Am Neuen Palais is the academic core, while the Communs, the prestigious annexes of the New Palace, host institutes of the Faculty of Arts and the presidential office.新宫主校区是学术核心，而新宫那些著名附属建筑公共服务楼，则容纳文学院的若干研究所与校长办公室

• The Botanischer Garten Potsdam is the university's botanical garden, and the campuses at Am Neuen Palais, Golm and Babelsberg are all of historical as well as academic interest.波茨坦植物园是该校的植物园，而新宫、戈尔姆与巴贝尔斯贝格三处校区兼具历史价值与学术价值

• Potsdam lies south-west of Berlin within the Berlin-Brandenburg metropolitan area, which gives the university three campuses within easy reach of the German capital.波茨坦位于柏林西南、属柏林-勃兰登堡都会区，使该校的三个校区都能便捷通往德国首都

• Because several campuses occupy historic buildings, including parts of the Sanssouci ensemble, the university works within monuments rather than on a single greenfield site.由于多个校区占用历史建筑，包括无忧宫建筑群的一部分，该校是在文物建筑中运作，而非坐落于单一的新建地块

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings for 2027 the University of Potsdam is placed 500th in the world.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，波茨坦大学位列世界第 500 名

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 place the university at =247, its strongest showing among the four major global tables.2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名把该校置于第 247 名，是其在四大全球榜单中最好的表现

• In the US News Best Global Universities ranking for 2026-2027 the institution is ranked 324th in the world.在 2026-2027 年度 US News 全球最佳大学排名中，该校位列世界第 324 名

• In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it appears in the 301-400 band.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中，该校位于 301 至 400 区间

• OpenAlex attributes about 59,190 scholarly works and 3,023,732 citations to the university, reflecting a solid research output for a university founded only in 1991.OpenAlex 把约 59190 项学术成果与 3023732 次引用归于该校，对一所仅创办于 1991 年的大学而言显示出扎实的科研产出

• The university was ranked 30th in the world in the Times Higher Education Young University Rankings 2021, and 41st in Nature's Top 175 Young Universities ranking.该校在 2021 年泰晤士高等教育年轻大学排名中位列世界第 30 名，并在《自然》全球 175 所年轻大学排名中位列第 41 名

• The university has a particularly strong linguistics programme, ranked in the 51-100 band of the QS World University Rankings by subject for linguistics.该校的语言学项目尤为强劲，在 QS 世界大学学科排名语言学中位居 51 至 100 区间

• The Digital Engineering Faculty, led by the Hasso Plattner Institute, runs Germany's top-ranked computer science-related study programme according to the CHE ranking of 2019/2020.由哈索·普拉特纳研究所主导的数字工程学院，依据 2019/2020 年 CHE 排名，开设德国排名前列的计算机科学类学业项目

• In the 2024 edition of the QS ranking the university stood 460th worldwide and 25th within Germany, a position broadly consistent with its later band.在 2024 年版 QS 排名中，该校位列世界第 460 名、德国第 25 名，与其之后的档位大致吻合

• The Center for Higher Education Development considers the master's and doctoral programmes of the Potsdam Center for Public Policy and Management to be among the very best in Europe.高等教育发展中心认为，波茨坦公共政策与管理中心的硕士与博士项目位居欧洲最优秀之列

Student life

• Unlike older German universities, Potsdam does not foreground a long-standing Latin motto, and its stated identity rests on its founding in 1991 and its teacher-training mission.与更古老的德国大学不同，波茨坦大学并不突出一个历史悠久的拉丁文校训，其自我定位依托于 1991 年的建校与师资培养使命

• More than 60 student organisations are registered as associations at the university, enabling students to pursue political or cultural interests and to organise social projects.该校注册为学生社团的学生组织有 60 多个，使学生能够追求政治或文化兴趣并组织公益项目

• The Association for Student Affairs provides accommodation for 2,855 students in the city of Potsdam and runs dining halls on every campus, with main courses starting at about 2.15 euros.学生事务协会在波茨坦市为 2855 名学生提供住宿，并在每个校区经营食堂，主菜起价约 2.15 欧元

• The Nil club on the Am Neuen Palais campus has been run by students since 1999, while in the city centre students manage the Student Cultural Centre KuZe and the bar Pub à la Pub.新宫校区的 Nil 俱乐部自 1999 年起由学生经营，而在市中心，学生打理着学生文化中心 KuZe 与 Pub à la Pub 酒吧

• The University Athletic Department offers up to 200 different courses for a small fee, including unusual sports such as historical sword fighting.大学体育部以小笔费用提供多达 200 种不同课程，其中包括历史击剑等不常见的运动。

• Students are represented directly by the Student Parliament, the General Students' Committee and departmental student representative committees.学生由学生议会、学生总会委员会以及各系学生代表委员会直接代表

• Since 2017 the university has awarded the Voltaire Prize for Tolerance, International Understanding and Respect for Differences, worth 5,000 euros and sponsored by the Friede Springer Foundation.自 2017 年起，该校颁发伏尔泰宽容、国际理解与尊重差异奖，奖金 5000 欧元，由弗里德·施普林格基金会资助

• The prize honours scientists committed to freedom in research and education and to freedom of expression, aligning the university with the Enlightenment legacy of Voltaire and La Mettrie.该奖表彰致力于研究与教育自由以及言论自由的科学家，使该校与伏尔泰及拉美特利的启蒙遗产相呼应

• Because the university is embedded in the city of Potsdam and close to Berlin, students combine study with the cultural life of Sanssouci, the film studios and the German capital.由于该校植根于波茨坦市并临近柏林，学生得以把学业与无忧宫、电影制片厂及德国首都的文化生活结合起来

• Several consultation centres run by the Faculty of Human Sciences, including a university clinic licensed as a testing centre of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, serve both students and the wider city.人文科学学院运营的若干咨询中心，包括一所经德国奥林匹克体育联合会授权为测试中心的大学诊所，既服务学生也服务更广的城市居民

• The Potsdam student body is international in composition, with 15 per cent of all students coming from abroad, supported by exchange agreements with many partner universities.波茨坦大学的学生群体构成国际化，全体学生中有 15% 来自国外，并得到与众多伙伴大学交换协议的支持

Notable people

• Rolf Mitzner was appointed founding rector of the University of Potsdam on 4 July 1991 and led the institution through its first years of construction.Rolf Mitzner 于 1991 年 7 月 4 日被任命为波茨坦大学的筹建校长，并在建校最初的若干年中领导这所机构

• Oliver Günther, an information systems scholar, has served as president of the University of Potsdam since 2012 and represents it legally.信息系统学者 Oliver Günther 自 2012 年起担任波茨坦大学校长，并依法对外代表该校

• Hasso Plattner, co-founder and former co-chief executive of the software company SAP, endowed the Hasso Plattner Institute and its new building on the Golm campus.软件公司 SAP 的联合创始人、前联席首席执行官 Hasso Plattner，捐资设立哈索·普拉特纳研究所并资助其在戈尔姆校区的新楼

• Abraham Geiger, the nineteenth-century rabbi and scholar of Judaism, gave his name to the Potsdam rabbinical seminary and inspired its programme of Jewish theology.19 世纪的拉比与犹太教学者亚伯拉罕·盖格，为波茨坦的拉比神学院留下其名，并启发了学院的犹太神学项目

• Moses Mendelssohn, the Enlightenment philosopher born in Dessau and a central figure of Jewish thought, gave his name to the university's centre for European-Jewish studies.出生于德绍的启蒙哲学家、犹太思想核心人物摩西·门德尔松，为该校的欧洲犹太研究中心留下其名

• Hilal Alkan, a Turkish political scientist, received the university's Voltaire Prize in 2017, the first year in which it was awarded.土耳其政治学者 Hilal Alkan 于 2017 年获该校伏尔泰奖，这是该奖首次颁发之年

• Gladys Tzul Tzul, a Guatemalan sociologist, won the Voltaire Prize in 2018 for her work on indigenous communal governance.危地马拉社会学家 Gladys Tzul Tzul 因其关于原住民共同治理的研究，于 2018 年获得伏尔泰奖

• Ahmad Milad Karimi, an Afghan philosopher, received the Voltaire Prize in 2019.阿富汗哲学家 Ahmad Milad Karimi 于 2019 年获得伏尔泰奖

• Elisabeth Kaneza, a Rwandan political scientist and legal scholar, was awarded the Voltaire Prize in 2021.卢旺达政治学者与法律学者 Elisabeth Kaneza 于 2021 年获得伏尔泰奖

• Duong Keo, a Cambodian historian and political scientist, took the Voltaire Prize in 2022.柬埔寨历史学家与政治学者 Duong Keo 于 2022 年获得伏尔泰奖

• Amy Lai, a Hong Kong-born lawyer and author, received the Voltaire Prize in 2023, a China-related figure among the prize's laureates.出生于香港的律师与作家 Amy Lai 于 2023 年获得伏尔泰奖，是该奖得主中一位与华人相关的人物

• Gerawork Teferra Gizaw of Ethiopia and the Belarusian philosopher and activist Olga Shparaga shared the 2024 Voltaire Prize.来自埃塞俄比亚的 Gerawork Teferra Gizaw 与白俄罗斯哲学家、活动人士 Olga Shparaga 分享了 2024 年伏尔泰奖

• Rosario Figari Layús, an Argentinian sociologist, was awarded the Voltaire Prize in 2025.阿根廷社会学家 Rosario Figari Layús 于 2025 年获得伏尔泰奖