OpenFieldHföD Bayern · Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Hochschule für den öffentlichen Dienst in Bayern (HföD Bayern) is Bavaria’s premier state civil service university, providing dual university training for executive civil servants across general administration, taxation, policing, and judiciary.
With decentralized campuses across Bavaria (Munich, Hof, Herrsching, Sulzbach-Rosenberg, Starnberg), HföD students hold civil service candidate status (Beamtenanwärter) and receive monthly salaries from the State of Bavaria while completing accredited bachelor’s degrees.
Requires the Bavarian state civil service selection examination (Bayerischer Landespersonalausschuss - LPA-Test), university entrance qualification, German/EU citizenship, and medical fitness.
Dual 3-year university degree qualifying graduates for civil service executive grade (3. Qualifikationsebene) in Bavarian state and municipal ministries.
Specialized degree in German corporate tax law, international double taxation, fiscal auditing, and criminal tax investigation at Campus Herrsching.
Dual computing and law curriculum developing software architectures, cryptographic digital ID systems, and citizen service automation in Bavarian e-government.
Grant awarded to faculty-student research teams designing ethical AI chatbots, automated document validation, and data protection in municipal citizen offices.
Practical judicial training in court management, insolvency administration, land registry verification, and electronic court file processing (e-Akte).
Honorary award recognizing graduating civil service candidates whose final theses contribute exceptional legal solutions to Bavarian state administrative reform.
President of HföD Bayern and Professor of Constitutional Law
Department of General Administration and Public Governance
Prof. Dr. Harald Schwab has led Bavarian public sector legal reforms, publishing authoritative commentaries on municipal constitutional law and civil service et...
View researcher profile ↗Professor of Fiscal Law and Tax Compliance
Faculty of Financial Administration (Campus Herrsching)
Prof. Dr. Thomas Troidl specializes in corporate turnover tax law, European tax harmonization, and criminal fiscal procedures across Bavarian revenue offices....
View researcher profile ↗Head of Administrative Informatics and E-Government
Department of Information Systems and Digital Administration
Prof. Dr. Martin Schreiner researches sovereign cloud architectures, digital citizen portals, and automated decision-making frameworks under German administrati...
View researcher profile ↗OpenField is an independent research platform not officially affiliated with Hochschule für den öffentlichen Dienst in Bayern (HföD Bayern). Information reflects public documentation reviewed on 2026-10-16. Students must verify application deadlines, fee structures, and prerequisite details directly with official university admissions departments before applying.
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