Professor Beate A. Schücking is the Rector of Leipzig University. She is the head of the University and represents it externally. As chair of the Rectorate, she decides on its regulations and deals with the orientation of research and teaching as well as the implementation of Senate resolutions.

Biography
- Since 1 March 2011
Rector of Leipzig University - 2009–2011
Dean of Studies of the Faculty of Health Science at Osnabrück University - 2005–2009
Vice President for Research and Advancement of Young Academics at Osnabrück University - 2000–2001
Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences and Psychology at Osnabrück University - 1995–2011
Professor of Health, Pathology and Psychosomatics at Osnabrück University - 1989–1995
Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Munich University of Applied Sciences - 1985–1989
Philosophy degree at the Philipps University of Marburg, freelance physician - 1982–1985
Research assistant at the Philipps University of Marburg, Department of Internal Medicine - 1980–1982
Clinical training and junior doctor in Biberach - 1980
Doctorate in experimental haematology at Ulm University - 1979–1980
Research assistant at the Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 - 1974–1979
Medical degree at Ulm University - 1956
Born in Kassel