Friedrich Faulhammer (*1963) was Rector of the University for Continuing Education Krems (Danube University Krems) from 2013 to 2025. The law graduate was previously Head of Section and Secretary General at the Federal Ministry of Science and Research, where he played a key role in shaping Austrian and European higher education policy over more than two decades, including the implementation of the Universities Act 2002.
Friedrich Faulhammer studied law in Vienna. From 1985 to 1990, he worked at the Institute for Legal History at the University of Vienna and in the legal department of the University Directorate and moved to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research in 1990. In 2005, he became Head of the Higher Education Section at the Federal Ministry of Science and Research in Austria and has been its Secretary General since 2009. In 2017, 2018, 2023 and 2024, Faulhammer served as President of the Danube Rectors’ Conference (DRC), a network of around 70 universities based in the countries of the Danube region, and in 2019 he was appointed to the Board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe. From 2018 to 2025, he was a member of the board of the Ludwig Boltzmann Society.
He is currently Chairman of the Board of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe and the University Council of the Vienna University of Teacher Education, a member of the Association for German and International Science Law in Münster and on the Advisory Board of the Europa Forum Wachau.
He has been an international representative on the Accreditation Council since February 2025.