Professor Ingo Gestring takes over the management of the university on 1 April 2025.

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Ingo Gestring will take up his post as Rector of the Dresden University of Applied Sciences (HTWD). On 27 March 2025, he was officially appointed as the new Rector of the HTW Dresden by the Saxon State Minister for Science, Sebastian Gemkow. The extended senate of the university elected Professor Ingo Gestring on 30 April 2024. His term of office is five years.

Professor Ingo Gestring has more than 20 years of leadership experience in university management and business. He spent several years in senior positions in the automotive industry, most recently as Head of Production and Logistics at Volkswagen's Transparent Factory in Dresden. He studied mechanical engineering at the University of Hannover until 1998, where he obtained his doctorate in 2002. In 2009, he was appointed Professor of Materials Management and Production Logistics at the HTWD. From 2015 to 2021, he was Dean of the Faculty of Economics. In 2022 and 2024, the professor was awarded the HTWD prize for good teaching. Ingo Gestring is very well networked in Saxony and Germany, as well as internationally.

„The core tasks of a university are teaching and research. In future, I will focus even more on these. I feel committed to the Humboldtian ideal of education complemented by practical relevance and employability. The university is a community of teachers, researchers, staff and, above all, students. Together, we want to create a familiar environment in which all members can develop and in which change is courageously tackled. I want our university to be one of the best and most efficient universities of applied sciences in eastern Germany and to set standards in teaching, research and transfer," says the new Rector, summing up his ambitions for the position. 

In the future, the university will have an even greater impact on society as a driving force and will be a reliable partner for the economy, especially for SMEs. In addition to strong application-oriented research, these are essential prerequisites for making teaching fit for the future, Gestring emphasises. He sees a strong university community, which needs to be fostered, as the basis for the university's success.

Professor Ingo Gestring succeeds Professor Katrin Salchert, who has headed the university since 2020.