Germany
Appointment grades
- Professor (Pay grade: W3)
- Professor (W2)
- Hochschuldozent (W2, only in Baden-Württemberg)
- Juniorprofessor (not tenured) (W1)
- Juniordozent (not tenured) (W1, only in Baden-Württemberg)
- Akademischer Rat/Oberrat/Direktor auf Lebenszeit (A13, A14, A15)
- Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter auf Zeit, Akademischer Rat auf Zeit (TVöD, A13 a.Z.)
- Akademischer Mitarbeiter auf Zeit (TVöD only in Baden-Württemberg)
- Wissenschaftliche Hilfskraft (TdL)
- Studentische Hilfskraft (TdL)
Non-appointment grades
- Privatdozent
- Außerplanmäßiger Professor (conferred, in some German States, to a Privatdozent, who has been in service for several years, without formally being appointed as professor.)
Administrative ranks
- Rektor, Präsident - rector or president, highest representative of the university or Polytechnic, elected
- Prorektor, Vizepräsident, prorector or vice president, elected
- Kanzler - chancellor, administrative head, often a permanent job
- Dekan - dean, elected
- Institutsdirektor - head of department, elected
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