Granting stipends and supporting scholarly meetings and research projects are the principle aims of the recently-formed Manfred and Ursula-Fluß Trust. Manfred and Ursula Fluß, longstanding supporters and sponsors of the University of Bremen, recently agreed on the statutes and concluded a trust deed with the chairman of the University of Bremen Foundation, Dr. Martin Mehrtens.
“I feel personally connected with the University of Bremen in many ways”, says Manfred Fluß, former Senator for Finance and member of the Bremen Parliament. “From the beginning I actively accompanied it on its way to becoming a university of excellence”. In setting up the new Trust he and his wife also wish to express recognition for the pivotal contributions made by the University’s former Rectors, Professor Jürgen Timm und Professor Wilfried Müller. In the opinion of Manfred and Ursula Fluß, “There can be no doubt that it was mainly due to them that the University of Bremen received the accolade ‘University of Excellence’”.
The couple was already among the founders of the University of Bremen Foundation in 2012. “It only seemed logical to take a further step and make a personal long-term commitment to the University by setting up our own Trust”. The Manfred and Ursula-Fluß trust is the second to have been set up under the umbrella of the University of Bremen Foundation, the first being the Kellner & Stoll Trust for Climate and Environment.
Prof. Bernd Scholz-Reiter, Rector of the University of Bremen and member of the Board of Trustees governing the new Trust is full of praise for the University’s loyal supporters: “I know Manfred Fluß is deeply committed to advancing science and scholarship and I have learned to value his personal advice. I’m therefore especially pleased that he and his wife have found a way to continue their commitment to the University in future years.”
About Manfred Fluß
In the planning years 1969 to 1971 before the University of Bremen was eventually founded in1972, Manfred Fluß was an honorary representative of the planning commission for Mathematics and the Sciences. As member of the Bremen Parliament he was responsible for the areas Science and Art for 26 years, 17 of which he spent as parliamentary spokesman for the University of Bremen. In these capacities he was to a great degree responsible for the University’s growth and successful development in the 1980s and 1990s. From 1994 to 1995 Manfred Fluß was Bremen’s Senator for Finance.
Manfred Fluß has been chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Nolting Hauff Stiftung zur Förderung der Universität Bremen [Foundation to support the University of Bremen] for 14 years; since 2012 he has sat on the Board of Trustees of the University of Bremen Foundation as representative of the Bremen Senate, and for the past nine years he has been an active member of the Rector’s Circle, a group of experts who advise the Rector of the University.
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