Peter Strohschneider has been elected the next president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation). The professor for German medieval studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich was elected for a period of three years to the top office of Germany's central research funding organisation at its General Assembly in Dortmund on Wednesday, 4 July 2012. Strohschneider will take up office on 1 January 2013 and succeed engineering scientist Professor Matthias Kleiner, who has been at the head of the DFG since 2007 and will leave office at the end of the year after serving two three-year terms.

The General Assembly of the DFG elected Peter Strohschneider from a pool of three candidates, which also included Professor Katharina Kohse-Höinghaus (University of Bielefeld, chemistry) and Professor Martin Lohse (University of Würzburg, pharmacology). All three candidates were nominated for election by the DFG Senate at the recommendation of the selection commission.

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