New Chancellor in office

It’s now official: On June 22, 2023, Christoph Matthias Duscha received his certificate of appointment at the SMWK in Dresden from State Secretary Dr. Andreas Handschuh. The senior administrative official will now assume the position of Chancellor at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences effective July 1, 2023. He succeeds Dipl.-Jur. Karin Hollstein, who left the university at the end of her second term on June 30, 2023.

With an impressive professional background and extensive experience in various fields, Christoph Matthias Duscha is well-qualified for the position of Chancellor. Since December 2007, he has served as the Head (of division) of the Department of Human Resources and Legal Affairs at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. In this role, for many years he was responsible not only for general human resources and legal matters but also for the professional development of staff, as well as for the university’s personnel development and recruiting.

Prior to his position at Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences, he served as an advisor at the Saxon State Ministry of Economic Affairs and Labor from 2005 to 2007, where he was responsible for start-ups, SME financing, banking, and stock exchanges—in particular, for the supervision of the European Energy Exchange in Leipzig. There, he gained extensive experience in the field of national and European energy and capital markets law.

Christoph Matthias Duscha completed his law degree from 1996 to 2002 at Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg. During this time, he deepened his legal knowledge, particularly in European law, at the University of Paris-X Nanterre, where he earned the degree of Licencié en droit in June 1999. From 2003 to 2005, he completed his legal clerkship at the Higher Regional Court of Celle, with assignments in Hanover, Lübeck, and Dresden.

Mr. Duscha lives in Görlitz with his wife and four children.