The Central Examination Office (ZPA)

of the Division of Student Affairs and Teaching

The Central Examination Office offers the following office hours:

Monday to Thursday 9:00 - 12:00 by appointment only

Make an appointment for a consultation (in person or by phone) during these office hours with the Central Examination Office. Please note that you will need to contact the responsible official at the Central Examination Office by phone or via email ahead of time to make an in-person appointment.

Responsibilities according study programmes

  • Director of Central Examination Office
  • Secretary for the Central Examination Office
  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Administrative court and preliminary proceedings in the area examinations (in cooperation with the in-house counsel)
  • Assistance in creating study and examination regulations
  • Master’s examinations
  • Continuing education study programme in Psychology
    with a concentration on Forensic Psychology (Application to and submission of Master’s thesis as well as processing examination documents)
     
  • Doctoral studies in all subject (except for Mathematics, Physics and Psychology)

Edelgard Matzner

Phone: +49 7531 88-3114

Room: C 402

Office hours:
Please schedule an appointment via email
Mon-Thu: 9:00-12:00

Or:
Robert Bucifal

Or (for doctoral studies):

Manuela Hafner

  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Assistance in creating study and examination regulations
  • Appeal procedures (rethinking the examination rulings) in the following subjects
  • Bachelor’s examinations
    • Economics (processing the examination documents)
    • Mathematical Finance (processing the examination documents)
  • Master's examination (humanities faculty)
    • General Linguistics
    • British and American Studies
    • German Literature
    • History
    • Studies in European Culture
    • Classics and the Ancient Near East
    • Linguistics
    • Literature-Art-Media
    • Literary Studies (KMS)
    • Multilingualism
    • Eastern European Studies
    • Eastern Europe: History - Media
    • Philosophy
    • Romance Literature
    • Slavic Literature
    • Slavic Linguistics
    • Sociology
    • Speech and Language Processing
    • English Language and Linguistics
    • German and Germanic Linguistics
    • Romance Languages and Linguistics
    • Transcultural History and Anthropology
  • Master’s examinations
    • Mathematical Finance (processing the examination documents)
    • Political Economy (processing the examination documents)
    • Social and Economic Data Analysis (processing the examination documents)
    • Business and Economics Education (processing the examination documents)
    • Comparative studies in German, European, and Chinese Law
  • Magister examinations
    • for all study programmes (including Law LL.M.)
  • Central Examination Office website management

Robert Bucifal

Phone: +49 7531 88-3244

Room: C 406

Office hours:
Mon-Thu: 9:00-12:00

Or:
Edelgard Matzner

  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Bachelor’s examinations
    • Biological Sciences
    • Chemistry
    • Life Science
    • Mathematics
    • Molecular Materials Sciences / Nanoscience
    • Physics
  • Diplom examinations
    • Biology
    • Chemistry
    • Mathematics
    • Physics
  • Master’s examinations
    • Biological Sciences
    • Chemistry
    • Life Science
    • Mathematics
    • Molecular Materials Sciences / Nanoscience
    • Physics
  • Master's examinations (Master of Education)
    • Biology
    • Physics
    • Mathematics (processing the examination documents)
    • Chemistry
  • Habilitation (post-doctoral qualification)
  • Doctoral studies (Mathematics, Physics and Psychology)

Manuela Hafner

Phone: +49 7531 88-2776

Room: C 407

Office hours:
Mon-Thu: 9:00-12:00

Or:
Katja Pojda

Or (only for doctoral studies):

Edelgard Matzner

  • University Law examination in an area of specialisation
  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Bachelor's examinations (Bachelor of Education)
    • Computer Science
    • German
    • Economics
    • English
    • French
    • History
    • Italien
    • Latin
    • Philosophy/Ethics
    • Russian
    • Spanish
    • Sports Science

Mareike Kuketz

Phone: +49 7531 88-2606

Room: C 401

Office hours:

Mon-Thu: 9:00-12:00

Or:
Jasmin Berghaus

  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Bachelor’s examinations
    • British and American Studies
    • German Literature
    • Linguistics
    • Philosophy
    • Slavic Literature
  • Bachelor's examinations (Bachelor of Education)
    • Biology
    • Physics
    • Mathematics (processing the examination documents)
    • Chemistry (Bachelor's thesis submission and processing examination documents)
  • Master's examinations (Master of Education)
    • Philosophy/Ethics

Regine Pitscheider

Phone: +49 7531 88-5622

Room C 404


Office hours:
Mon-Thu: 9:00-11:30

Or:
Verena Indlekofer

  • Bachelor's examination
    • Classics and the Ancient Near East
    • French Studies
    • Italian Studies
    • Literature-Art-Media
    • Motor Neurorehabilitation
    • Spanish Studies
  • Master's examination (Master of Education)
    • Sports Science

Verena Indlekofer

Phone: +49 7531 88-3115

Room C 404


Office hours:
Mon-Thu: 9:00-11:30

Or:
Regine Pitscheider

  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Bachelor’s examinations
    • Psychology (Application to and submission of Bachelor’s thesis as well as processing examination documents)
    • Sports Science (B.Sc., B.A.)
  • Master's examinations (Master of Education)
    • German
    • English
    • French
    • History
    • Italian
    • Latin
    • Russian
    • Spanish
  • Central Examination Office website management

Susanne Heinzelmann

Phone: +49 7531 88-3457

Room: C 405

Office hours:
Mon-Thu: 9:00 – 12:00

Or:
Karolin Wurster

  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Bachelor's examinations
    • Computer Science
    • Information Engineering
  • Master's examinations (Master of Education)
    • Computer Science
  • Master's examinations
    • Computer and Information Science
    • Sociology
    • History
  •  Central Examination Office website management

Karolin Wurster

Phone: +49 7531 88-4921

Room: C 401

Office hours:
Mon: 9:00 - 11:00, Tue, Thu: 9:00 - 12:00

Or:
Susanne Heinzelmann

  • Advisory service for faculties and departments regarding examination matters
  • Bachelor’s examinations
    • Politics and Public Administration (Bachelor’s thesis submission and processing examination documents)
  • Master’s examinations
    • Early Childhood
    •  Economics
    •  European Master in Government (Master’s thesis submission and processing examination documents)
    • Politics and Public Administration (Master’s thesis submission and processing examination documents)
    • Public Administration and European Governance (Master’s thesis submission and processing examination documents)
  • Master's examinations (Master of Education)
    • Economics
    • Politics
    • Educational Sciences

Katja Pojda

Phone: +49 7531 88-2985

Room: C 403

Office hours:
Mon - Thu: 9:00 – 12:00

Or:
Manuela Hafner

  • Main office, Advisory service

Tatjana Eismann

Phone: +49 7531 88-2771

Juliane Arenz

Phone: +49 7531 88-3773

both in room: C 408