"Here in Göttingen, something serves as a fire accelerator"

After Metin Tolan's election, the former rector of Bochum, Axel Schölmerich, is to organize the reboot at the University of Göttingen. In an interview, the interim president talks about Göttingen's permanent crisis, the one-sided focus on the strategy of excellence and the overdue adaptation of self-perception to reality. Axel Schölmerich has been President of the University of Göttingen since March 2025. He was commissioned by the Senate to car…