Honorary Senator Gerhard Hess
| 1946 | born in Nuremberg Abitur at the humanistic grammar school of the Benedictines in Metten, student of Law at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, lawyer in Munich |
| 1977 | Northern Bavarian branch office of the Bavarian Construction Industry Association, Head of Department |
| 1989 | Bavarian Construction Industry Association, Deputy Chief Executive Officer |
| 1992 – 2014 | Bavarian Construction Industry Association, Managing Director and Member of the Executive Board |
| 2006 | appointment as Honorary Senator of the Technische Universität München |