Can one ask for good season tickets for the local Bundesliga team as part of the package?
As a seasoned German business prof, you should have industry contacts which value you enough to take care of that for you.
How to get tenure in Germany as a US-PhD
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Can one ask for good season tickets for the local Bundesliga team as part of the package?
As a seasoned German business prof, you should have industry contacts which value you enough to take care of that for you.
But be very careful: You are not permitted to accept presents from industry without written (!) approval by your chancellor. I remember a guy from the law faculty who really asked our chancellor whether he was allowed to go to a Bundesliga football game in the VIP lounge. That stupid chancellor said no because "this might influence his independence as researcher". I am not making this stupid story up.
We Germans have a law for every bullsh**. For example https://bravors.brandenburg.de/de/verwaltungsvorschriften-220903
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Can one ask for good season tickets for the local Bundesliga team as part of the package?
Unless you're at TU Dortmund and want to stand on the "Yellow Wall" or want the super VIP package, getting season tickets for the local BL team should be neither very expensive, nor very difficult.
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Austria more corrupt and local, Switzerland outside of Zurich, Bern and maybe Lausanne/Geneva as well. Zurich depends on whether Ernst likes you. No idea about the Netherlands.
How about BWL at Zurich, Bern, Lausanne (HEC) and St. Gallen? and ETH-Z and EPFL (both have BWL type departments)?
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How often does it have to be said? BWL, as a whole, is always corrupt. There might be econ-like subpockets in finance or something somewhere that are not as dysfunctional, but as a rule and overall BWL is corrupt. Not interested in scholarship, a boner for Drittmittel, exploitation of PhD students, bulls**tters before the Lord...
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Can anyone else update similar info for other German speaking countries (Switzerland and Austria) and Netherlands? Is it a similar system there too?
Austria copied decades ago all German laws about professorship and is therefore pretty much comparable with the formal procedure. In my view Austrians are not that competitive with pubs but starting to look at the Handelsblatt ranking closely. One major difference: Austrian universities are financed by the federal government. So although you earn a little less on average there is much more money in the system and you can individually earn more than in Germany.
Regarding Switzerland I only know about Zurich. There, you earn much more than in Germany, otherwise it is pretty much the same as Germany. The swiss finance institute pays you for every A-pub real money, so you can double your (already high) income with top5. I do not know about Basel etc.
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I should also say that the rules for retirement benefits may differ, but accumulated ones are portable.
There is Staatsvertrag guaranteeing that. But you can only transfer until 52 years of age (differs a little bit, NRW had 45) because then working time versus pension time is too bad for the last Bundesland. The general rule of benefit is across Bundeslaender pretty much the same.
After 52 you will not be Beamter but only Angestellter. This is a great loss if your income is above a certain threshold since Pension is evaluate "factor x last salary" whereas Rente is "factor * Average of Min(Beitragsbemessungsgrenze, Salary)" which is substantially lower. As a Beamter you do not pay for your pension, as an Angestellter you do. The threshold is a little higher than the salary of a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter.
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Thanks to the previous posters for your detailed answers. Related, are you forced to retire @ 67? and is there a minmum nuber of years you need to have worked to get a full pension? What I am getting at is, is there some age at which moving back is simply not an option any longer?
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Wow, OP, I notice your thread only now. This is literally great, you nailed it so well. Especially the way you explained the perverse incentives in German Berufungskommissionen, and why the results are often disappointing but rational, is absolutely correct -- exactly what my experience was since I moved back from the US a while ago. Some things still amaze me when I see them from a distance, but when you are in and imbued in the logic of a Berufungskommission, it al makes sense. Thanks for your clarity.
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Thanks to the previous posters for your detailed answers. Related, are you forced to retire @ 67? and is there a minmum nuber of years you need to have worked to get a full pension? What I am getting at is, is there some age at which moving back is simply not an option any longer?
You are forced to retire at 67 (at least for the moment), and your pension is a linear function of the number of years you have worked, with the full pension being achieved with 40 years of work experience. Work outside the German university system may be counted, but you need to double-check and possibly negotiate this.
However, if you are older than 40-50 (depending on the state) becoming "beamter" is no longer possible, and the conditions when being "angestellter" are generally not very attractive.
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Would you mind describing a little bit your experience moving back? E.g. how did you manage to do so and are you regretting it?
Wow, OP, I notice your thread only now. This is literally great, you nailed it so well. Especially the way you explained the perverse incentives in German Berufungskommissionen, and why the results are often disappointing but rational, is absolutely correct -- exactly what my experience was since I moved back from the US a while ago. Some things still amaze me when I see them from a distance, but when you are in and imbued in the logic of a Berufungskommission, it al makes sense. Thanks for your clarity.