Questions and answers about the alumni network

Your user name in the alumni portal consists of: firstname.surname. The user name of the alumni email does not contain a dot: firstnamelastname. The e-mail is: vorname.nachname@alumni.hu-berlin.de (e.g.: alexander.humboldt@alumni.hu-berlin.de). Please only use your user name to log in and not the e-mail address.

No, you do not need to register again. Please simply let us know your new e-mail address, which we will enter for you in the alumni portal. Please provide proof of your identity accordingly. We will then send you an automatically generated password to your new private e-mail address.

To receive an alumni e-mail address, you must register in the alumni portal. When registering in the alumni portal, the last question is whether you would like to receive your own alumni e-mail. Please tick the "Yes" box and submit the registration.
Click here to register in the alumni portal.

Of course, you can also receive an alumni e-mail at a later date. Please send us an e-mail and we will be happy to activate the service for you.

Please ensure that you do not put a full stop between your first name and surname in your alumni email username (e.g. alexander.humboldt@alumni.hu-berlin.de, username: alexanderhumboldt). Your user name in the alumni network, on the other hand, consists of a first and last name with a full stop (e.g. alexander.humboldt).

If you log in with your e-mail address and not your user name, you may be able to see your mailbox but not be able to access your e-mails. To solve this problem, please log in with your user name. This is made up of your first name and your surname and has no punctuation marks (= first name surname, e.g. alexanderhumboldt).

To solve the problem, you should revise the core data in the outgoing mail server and the server settings in Thunderbird. We have compiled a solution and the necessary data for this in the following instructions.
Instructions for resolving the SMTP server problem (pdf)

After your de-registration, your student HU e-mail address will expire. Therefore, please make sure that you do not log in to the alumni portal with an HU address. Your student e-mail address and alumni e-mail address are independent of each other. E-mails to your old address will therefore not be automatically forwarded to your alumni account.

Unfortunately, this service is currently only available to HU students and staff.

Unfortunately, this service is currently only available to HU students and staff.

Unfortunately, guided tours can currently only be offered in exceptional cases. Detailed information can be found here: Alumni tours at the Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin.

You will find regular job offers in the HU job centre. You can also offer jobs or internships yourself here.

Here you will also find information on further training, start-up counselling and certificates.

Please contact the examination office of your former faculty.

Please contact the Student Services Department using the form provided or by e-mail to compass@hu-berlin.de.

Compass, the Student Service Centre, has compiled a clear and comprehensive list of the most frequently asked questions about studying (including after graduation). You can find the overview on the Compass website.

If you log in to the HU-Berlin Alumni Network, you can search for people with several parameters (e.g. name, subject area, year of graduation), provided they have activated their data, and then contact them.

Please note that the Alumni Office cannot pass on any personal information to third parties for data protection reasons.

For research requests up to the year 1945, we recommend that you search the Findbuch.Net of the University Archive.
To search the student directories of the Friedrich Wilhelm University, please use the edoc publication server of the HU. You can find information on how to use it in the guidelines for keyword research in the edoc server.

We are delighted about the commitment of alumni to their university. Here we present some opportunities.

Here you can find out about current sponsorship projects.

If you would like to pass on your knowledge and experience to Humboldt-Universit?t students, please contact the Alumni Office.

Here you can get an overview of the decentralised alumni initiatives of Humboldt-Universit?t zu Berlin. There you can get in touch directly with the contact persons.