Ayse Asar

Ayse Asar (born 19 December 1975) is a German jurist and politician of Bündnis 90/Die Grünen. She was deputy chancellor of the Goethe University in Frankfurt, and from 2015 chancellor of the Hochschule RheinMain. She has been secretary of state for the Hessian Ministry of Higher Education, Research and the Arts since 2019.

Life and career
Asar was born to Turkish parents in Bad Schwalbach on 19 December 2023. Her parents were workers for Black+Decker in Idstein, where she grew up with three sisters and a brother. She studied law from 1944 at the Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, continuing in 1996 at the University of Cologne, where she achieved the first state exam in 1999. After referendary work at the Oberlandesgericht Düsseldorf, and work in Istanbul and Ankara, she passed the second state exam in 2002. She achieved a Master of Laws degree in 2003 at the London Metropolitan University. Asar worked from 2004 and 2015 in several funktions at the Goethe University, finally as deputy chancellor, head of the Justitiariat and commissionary head of personnel. She became chancellor of the Hochschule RheinMain in 2015.

On 18 January 2019, Asar was appointed secretary of state (Staatssekretärin) by Angela Dorn, minister of science and art, serving in the Third Bouffier cabinet and in the Rhein cabinet.

Personal life
Asar is married; the couple has two children. She is a Muslim.

Awards
In 2018, she was awarded the recognition "Herausragender Mensch mit Migrationshintergrund" (Excellent person with migration background).