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On July 28, 1976 - about one year after the University of Bayreuth was founded - the senate decides to develop an emblem with proposals by Dr. Karl Möckl, member of the structural advisory board of UBT. These drafts were submitted to the Bavarian State Ministry of Art and Culture in December 1977, but in July 1978 the Ministry refused to accept a large coat of arms and only agreed to a seal as a so-called "small coat of arms".

Several proposals were then made from a wide variety of quarters: for example, the draft by Dr. Hans-Martin Rummenhohl, speaker for President Wolff. A further draft was presented by Prof. Dr. Hans-Ludwig Krauss, Laboratory for Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Bayreuth in June 1980.

None of this was realised, but efforts were resumed when it came to establishing a chain of office for the President. Suggestions for this were symbols in the direction of the "Ochsenkopf" mountain as the second highest elevation in north-eastern Bavaria (by Prof. Dr. H. Büttner, Chair of Theoretical Physics I) or a woodcut by Adam Ries as a reference to the scientific orientation of the UBT (by Prof. Dr. A. Kerber, Chair of Mathematics II). Again by Prof. Krauss came the design of the chain of office with an embedded rock crystal.

Finally, at the 19th meeting of the Standing Commission for Higher Education Planning, Spatial and Building Affairs on 13.01.1982, the University of Bayreuth's Executive Board agreed to the logo design by a graphic designer which focused on the Bayreuth hook. However, the logo at that time was still mirror-inverted to our present one. It was only in 2001, following a decision by the university management, that a fundamentally new corporate design for UBT was presented, according to which the logo was no longer left-rotated without hatching, but right-rotated and filled in with diagonal bars.