Alfred Ebenbauer (1945–2007) had a profound influence on the international research landscape as an ordinary for older German language and literature and later as dean of the humanities faculty and as rector of the University of Vienna. This booklet is dedicated to his memory and honors his work as a scientist and as a science organizer. It contains contributions by: O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Franz Römer, Dean of the Faculty of Philological and Cultural Studies at the University of Vienna, Prof. Dr. Hubert Ehalt, Culture Department of the City of Vienna and Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wyss, Frankfurt a. M. with the contribution "Alfred Ebenbauer as Germanist".