Prof. Dr. Hartmut Aden

Prof. Dr. Hartmut Aden has been a professor at the HWR Berlin since 2009, Professor of Public Law, European Law, Political and Administrative Science since 2016 and Deputy Director of FÖPS Berlin since 2025, as he was between 2016 and 2020. From 2020 to 2024 he was also Vice President for Research at the HWR. He teaches and conducts research on legal and administrative science topics as well as comparative policy research. His research projects focus primarily on the interfaces between law, politics and administration from a national as well as European and international perspective.

Prof. Dr. Clemens Arzt

Prof. Dr. Clemens Arzt was professor of constitutional and administrative law at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin, formerly FHVR Berlin) from 1999 to 2023, with a focus on police and regulatory law. His research has concentrated on German and international police law and right of assembly, protection of critical infrastructure, and the legal aspects of vehicle automation. He has authored numerous publications and often works as an expert for the German federal and state parliaments.

Prof. Dr. Christine Bartsch

Prof. Dr. Christine Bartsch has been professor of legal medicine at the HWR Berlin since WS 2019/20. The previous two years she had been working as a medical coordinator for the German antarctic research station Neumayer III of the Alfred-Wegener-Institute for polar- and marine research. With a postdoctoral qualification as a forensic specialist, during her ten-year stay abroad in switzerland, at last she was leading the department of forensic medicine and imaging at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the university of Zurich.

Prof. Dr. Gritt Beger

Prof. Dr. Gritt Beger has been professor of constitutional and administrative law at the BSEL since 2009. Her specialty is police law. Before joining the BSEL, she was the senior civil servant of the Dresden Police Department for several years. Her work focuses on police, civil service, and public service law.

Prof. Dr. Anja Berger

Prof. Dr. Anja Berger has been professor of psychology at the HWR Berlin since 2020. Previously, she had been working as the representitive specialist for violence prevention and child and adolesence media protection at The Federal Association of the Child Protection Association in Germany (2010-2012). She also had been working as a research assistant in various third party funding projects at the University of Potsdam (2004-2012). Her research focuses are in the fields of sexualized violence; violence, -fantasies and -prevention as well as kognitive information processing.

Prof. Dr. Marc Coester

Prof. Dr. Marc Coester has been professor of criminology at the BSEL since 2014. He holds a degree in educational science. Before joining FÖPS Berlin, Marc Coester worked for the institutes of criminology at the universities of Tübingen and Marburg, the crime prevention council of Lower Saxony’s ministry of justice, and the German Congress on Crime Prevention. Among other topics, he is an expert on crime prevention, right-wing extremism, hate crime, evaluation research and recidivism research.

Tamara Dangelmeier

Tamara Dangelmaier has studied sociology and criminal law in Tübingen and at the Goethe University of Frankfurt. She has been working for the HWR since July 2022 and does research under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Daniela Hunold in a project regarding the “Analysis of digital forms of expression and networking in social media“. Furthermore, she assists members of the FÖPS in the strategic development and acquisition of new research projects. In addition to her work for the HWR, she has been working at the German Police University in Munster and examines the „criminality and criminalization of members of extended family structures“ in a research project. Besides, her research focus is the empirical police research. She is pursuing a doctorate at the Goethe University of Frankfurt in police knowledge constructions.

Prof. Dr. Anna Daun

Prof. Dr. Anna Daun has been Professor for political science at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin) since 2016. Her teaching and research fall within the fields of International Relations and Security Studies. She is especially interested in security cooperation, fragile states, intelligence and civil protection. Bevor joining the HWR Berlin she worked for the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) on risk perception and risk communication.

Prof. Dr. Annika Dießner

Prof. Dr. Annika Dießner has been a professor of criminal procedural law, with a focus on police law, and criminal law, including civil law matters, since 2018. Previously, she worked as a lawyer with a specialization in criminal law. Her current research focus is on criminal procedural law and its interface with security law.

Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl-Heinz Fittkau

Prof. Dr. Karl-Heinz Fittkau has been a professor of leadership at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 2017. He previously worked as a police officer for over 35 years. His research focuses on police leadership, personnel development, and leadership training.

Dr. Florian Flörsheimer

Dr. Florian Flörsheimer has earned his doctorate in 2012 at the Phlipps-University in Marburg in politic science, with a paper about transformation processes within the - to private players extended - state-run security sector and the consequences of this development for the state monopoly on the use of force. Since 2013 he has been working as a lecturer for social and politic sciences in the training for the Higher Police Service of the federal state Berlin and in the degree course Security Management at the faculty five of the HWR Berlin, as well as at the HPolBB in Oranienburg and at the University of the Bundeswehr Munich. Focuses of his research activity are the development of the private security sector as well as the relation of police and society. Since January 2023 he has been a guest lecturer for social sciences at the faculty five of the HWR Berlin.

Prof. Matthias Frey

Prof. Matthias Frey has been professor of general criminalistics. Before, he had been employed as a CID-officer for 28 years, at last in office of a criminal director. Besides the bachelor degree course of the Higher Police Service, he also teaches in the master degree courses Security Management and International Security Management, as well as Public Administration and Police Management (Higher Police Service). Additionally, he is the subject coordinator for the criminalistic apprenticeship. Focus points of his research and publication activities mostly are determination of cause of death, sexual offenses, police criminalistic immediate measures and the criminalistic hypothesis formation.

Prof. Dr. Walter Fuchs

Prof. Dr. Walter Fuchs has been professor of criminology at the HWR Berlin since 2021. The studied jurist and criminologist had before been lecturer at the Institute for Sociology of the University of Vienna and long-standing research assistant of the extramural Institute for Law and Criminal Sociology (IRKS) in Vienna. At last, he had carried out lots of research projects, often in cooperation with public bodies (Austrian Ministry of Justice and Ministry of the Interior, also the city of Vienna). His research focuses are sociology in the public security, hate-criminality, White Collar Crime, criminality and migration, justice mobilization and legal culture in comparative and historic perspective, legal sociology, quantitative research methods and data visualization.

Prof. Dr. Mischa Hansel

Prof. Dr. Mischa Hansel has been professor of social sciences with the focus cyber- and information security at the HWR since 2023. Previously, he had been working at the politic scientific institutes in Cologne, Giessen and Aachen and had lastly been leading the research focus International Cyber Security (sponsored by the German Federal Foreign Office) at the IFSH in Hamburg. His research concentrates on cyber security architecture – from local to global level, the role of private players in the cyber security politics, as well as the usage of new technology in geo-political conflicts.

Prof. Dr. Daniela Hunold

Prof. Dr. Daniela Hunold has been professor of sociology with a focus on empirical police research at the HWR Berlin since spring 2022. Before, she had been devision chief for crime analysis and research at the State Criminal Investigation Office (Landeskriminalamt) Bremen and Post-Doc at the German Police University in Munster. She earned her doctorate in a german-french project about the relation between police and adolescents in multi-ethnical communities at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Crime, Security and Law in Freiburg i.Br. Her research focuses are in police and police action in the immigration society and the critical sociology of space.

Prof. Dr. Guido Kirchhoff

Prof. Dr. Guido Kirchhoff has been a professor of public law at the HWR Berlin since 2018. Previously, he was a professor of constitutional and European law at the Brandenburg State Police Academy from 2006 to 2011 and a professor of social work law at the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences from 2011 to 2018. His research focuses on police law (in particular Berlin and Brandenburg), child and youth welfare law (in particular age determination, taking into care, social data protection) and social law (in particular SGB XII).

Stephen Köppe

Stephen Köppe has been working at the faculty five at the HWR Berlin and lecturer for special tasks in the fields of leadership sciences and public security deployment management since 2023. Previously, he had been an executive for over 20 years in various basic and panel offices within the Berlin Police. He studied Berlin Management and Consulting at the BHT, where he studied the possibilities and boundaries of a value-oriented police leadership and organisation culture in times of transformation during a study within the Berlin Police department two. He is lecturer at the German Police University Munich, University of Applied Sciences of the Police Brandenburg, as well as the Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences. Currently, he researches in multiple projects the value and organization development in the police and in the unions. Current research focuses are in the value oriented organisation development (consulting/change management), leadership in crisis and public security deployment and crisis management.

Prof. Dr. Matthias Kötter

Prof. Dr. Matthias Kötter has been professor of public law at the HWR Berlin since 2021; since 2019 he has already been visiting professor there. Before, amongst other things, he had been working at the Berlin Social Science Center (WZB) and at the Goethe-University of Frankfurt on the Main. Furthermore, since 2017 he has been co-leader of the research post RSF-Hub, that is working in cooperation with the German Federal Foreign Office on the subject promotion of rule of law. His focuses in research and teaching are constitutional and police law.

Prof. Dr. Christoph Kopke

Prof. Dr. Christoph Kopke has been professor of political science and sociology at the HWR Berlin since 2015. Before he was research assistant at Moses Mendelssohn Centre, University Potsdam. From 2021 to 2025, he was Dean of Faculty 5 at the Berlin School of Economics and Law (HWR Berlin). He is an expert on right-wing extremism.

Prof. Marcel Kuhlmey

Prof. Marcel Kuhlmey has been working at the HWR Berlin since 2009 and is a professor for risk and crisis management. He previously worked for the Berlin police for 25 years, most recently as its press spokesman. Working in the HWR Berlin's Police and Security Management Department, from 2009 to 2011 he was the Vice Dean and Dean of Studies. Since 2011 he has been the Dean of the Department. His current research focuses on the area of security concepts for large events and safety exercises.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kühnel

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Kühnel was professor of criminology at the former FHVR Berlin from 1998 to 2011. Since 2011 he is professor of sociology at the BSEL. His research and publications cover a wide range of topics in the field of criminology. His current research concentrates on political protest, political participation of juveniles, and the transition from school to working life.

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Lampe

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Lampe has been professor of criminology at the HWR Berlin since 2018. Before, he has been professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice (City University of New York). He engages himself with term, theory and empirical manifestations of organized criminality, especially with illegal markets and illegal power structures, as well as international police cooperation.

Prof. Dr. Vincenz Leuschner

Prof. Dr. Vincenz Leuschner has been a professor of criminology and sociology at the HWR Berlin since 2017. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Applied Pedagogy in Berlin and a research assistant at the Free University of Berlin. His research focuses on violence (with a focus on terrorism), social problems and criminal development, crime prevention strategies, and the sociology of relationships.

Prof. Christian Matzdorf

Prof. Christian Friedrich Matzdorf has been temporary lecturer at the HWR / FHVR Berlin and was appointed with a professorship for criminalistics with a focus on forensic science. As part of his work at the HWR Berlin, amongst other things, he is coordinator of the Forensic Science Centre (KTZ), leader of the crisis team and engages in various college committees. He supports the internationalization of the university of applied sciences through his overseas projects. As an expert for criminalistic and forensic scientific subjects, he is regularly present in TV and radio. Previously, Professor Matzdorf had been working for the state police Berlin, at last as police director, in a variety of fields in CID and POP, as well as the Senate Administration for Internal Affairs (amongst other occupations as press officer for both).

Prof. Dr. Wim Nettelnstroth

Prof. Dr. Wim Nettelnstroth has been professor of psychology (personnel management) at the BSEL since 2012. Since 2014 he has been in charge of quality assurance in the Department of Police and Security Management. Prior to joining the BSEL, he was professor of psychology and education at the Brandenburg University of Applied Police Sciences. His professional activities and research focus primarily on personnel and organisational psychology, in particular personnel selection, communication/conflict, and leadership and organisational diagnostics.

Prof. Dr. Janine Neuhaus

Prof. Dr. Janine Neuhaus has been professor of psychology and research methods since 2017. Previously, she was working as a research consultant at Potsdam University (2015-2017) and as a research associate within several third-party-funded research projects at Freie Universität Berlin (2004-2015; in cooperation with the LKA Berlin, Volkswagen-Foundation etc.). She is an expert on crime prevention, youth violence, intervention and evaluation research and gender research.

Kathrin Nowicki

Kathrin Nowicki has been working as a lecturer for special taks in leadership sciences at the faculty five of the HWR Berlin since 2023. Before that, she had been a police officer in Berlin's law enforcement, at last in the post of a police senior counselor. Amongst other things, she led the public relations of the Berlin police and contributed to the research project WiWePol.

Prof. Dr. Claudius Ohder

Prof. Dr. Claudius Ohder has been professor of criminology at the BSEL (formerly FHVR Berlin) since 1996. Since 2005 he has been head of the Security Management programme at the BSEL. He is an expert in the fields of crime prevention, regulatory impact assessment, and urban security.

Prof. Dr. Harald Olschok

Prof. Dr. Harald Olscholk has been booked as the honorary professor of the field security economy at the HWR Berlin in the summer semester 2023. The studied economist had been CEO of the Federal Association of the Security Economy and the Federal Association of German Cash and Valueble Services. He published over 300 articles about private security and cash and valueble services, especially for qualification of occupants and the legal framework for the security economy in a new security architecture. He is (co-)editor of eight books about the security economy, among them the Management Manual Security Economy and Corporate Security.

Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Roggenkamp

Prof. Dr. Jan Dirk Roggenkamp has been a professor of public law at the HWR Berlin since 2017. Previously, he worked as a professor at the Lower Saxony Police Academy, as a consultant in the Federal Ministry of Justice, and as a lawyer for the law firm Bird & Bird LLP. His research focuses on the legal implications of IT-supported policing, particularly in the area of combating and preventing cybercrime.

Prof. Dr. habil. Caterina Rohde-Abuba

Prof. Dr. habil. Caterina Rohde-Abuba has been professsor of sociology at the HWR Berlin since 2022 and is currently mostly working on subjects surrounding childhood, child-wellbeing and child protection. In connection to her previous occupation as Head of Research at the International Children’s Charity World Vision, she has carried out research projects, amongst others about sexualized violence against children, child-wellbeing in the Corona-pandemic and religious diversity in the childhood. Other research fields are flight and migration, gender, family and religion.

Prof. Dr. Sandra Schmidt

Prof. Dr. Sandra Schmidt has been professor of operational theory and leadership theory at the HWR Berlin. Previously, she had been a police officer in Saxony-Anhalt's law enforcement for 20 years, at last in the post of a police director. Amongst other things, she has worked as head of department, has worked many years in the Ministry for Internal Affairs and Sports of Saxony-Anhalt on the strategic and organizational development of the police of Saxony-Anhalt and was incumbent vice-rector of the Saxony-Anhalt police college. She is certified process manager, as well as founder and co-editor of the Learning. Apprenticeship. Digital. (“Lehre. Lernen. Digital.”) Her current research deals with experience worlds in women’s penal systems and with the culture of organization of the police. In apprenticeship and research, she pushes the interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral approach.

Prof. Dr. Sabrina Schönrock

Prof. Dr. Sabrina Schönrock has been professor of public law at the BSEL since 2013, where she was previously a guest lecturer from 2010. Her research and teaching concentrate on fundamental and human rights in the context of policing, as well as public service and disciplinary law. She is co-author of a standard commentary on Berlin police law (ASOG Berlin), and since 2015 is a Judge at the Constitutional Court of Berlin. Since 2016 she has been Dean of the Police and Security Management faculty.

Prof. Dr. Markus Schultze-Kraft

Prof. Dr. Markus Schultze-Kraft has been Professor of Political Science at the HWR Berlin since 2022. Previously, he worked as a professor of political science and international relations at the Universidad Icesi in Cali (Colombia), as a fellow and head of the governance research team at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom), and as director of the Latin America and Caribbean program at the International Crisis Group based in Bogotá (Colombia). His work focuses on security, peace, conflict, and development research with a regional focus on Latin America, West Africa, and the Western Balkans.

Prof. Dr. Birgitta Sticher

Prof. Dr. Birgitta Sticher has been professor of psychology and leadership studies at the BSEL (formerly FHVR Berlin) since 1998, and since 2007 she has been internship coordinator for the Security Management programme at the BSEL. The focuses of her research are public involvement in disaster protection and the examination of pro-social behaviour in times of crisis/catastrophe.

Prof. Dr. iur. Ekkehard Strauß

Prof. Dr. Ekkehard Strauß holds a professorship for public law, especially human rights and police law at the HWR Berlin since October 2020. Before his occupation, he worked in various positions for the United Nations and the OSZE, both in field and in the headquarters Genf and New York. Since 1998 he had been engaging with international conflict management and -prevention, international human rights protecton and strategic planning of politics in theory and practice. During his whole career, he was part of collaborational research projects and publishments, that primarily focused on the prevention of genocide, the rights of minorities, human right protection strategies and the institutional development of the United Nations.

Prof. Dr. Petra Sußner

Prof. Dr. Petra Sußner has been a visiting professor of law specializing in gender issues at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since April 2025. Her research focuses on fundamental and human rights, interdisciplinary legal research, and the intersections of digitalization, the Anthropocene, and migration. Most recently, she conducted postdoctoral research in the DFG research group "Law-Gender-Collectivity" at Humboldt University in Berlin and led the innovative teaching project "Re:Law/lehre." (2024/25) Her doctoral thesis at the University of Vienna (2019) focused on the legal dimensions of sexual orientation and gender identity in the context of asylum. Sußner is a member of the DFG network "Law in the Anthropocene." With the performance collective „Epistemic Ruptures“, she combines scientific questions with artistic formats.

Prof. Dr. Tarik Tabbara

Prof. Dr. Tarik Tabbara, LL.M. (McGill) has been a professor of public law, with an emphasis on German and European security law, at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 2018. Before that, he was a consultant on the staff of the Federal Commissioner for Migration, Refugees and Integration as well as in the Federal Ministry of Environment and in the legal department of a parliamentary group in the Bundestag. He focuses his teaching and research on questions of fundamental human rights and security law. He is particularly interested in immigration and citizenship law as well as questions relating to the constitutional law of the immigration society.

Dr. Helmut Tausendteufel

Dr. Helmut Tausendteufel is a sociologist who has been a lecturer and research assistant in several research projects at the Berlin School of Economics and Law since 2001. He is currently a visiting professor for criminology. His research focuses on the areas of violence and juvenile delinquency as well as political crime.

Prof. Dr. Carolyn Tomerius

Prof. Dr. Carolyn Tomerius was appointed to a professorship of public law at the HWR Berlin in 2018. Previously, she had been a visiting professor at the university since 2014. Her main areas of teaching and research focus on constitutional and police law. She worked for many years on the board of directors of the Berlin Administrative Academy and as a lawyer in the Becker Büttner Held law firm.

Prof. Dr. Juergen Weichselgartner

Prof. Dr. Juergen Weichselgartner has been visiting professor of crisis and risk management at the HWR Berlin since 2019. He lectures and researches in societal dimensions of risks and their control. Subject focuses are global change and social transformation processes as well as the attached vulnerability/resilience of social systems. Amongst other occupations, he is expert for the World Climate Council (PCC) and since 2020 he is leading the master degree International Security Management (ISM) at the faculty five.