Management team. Schloss Neubeuern.
Nice to finally meet you.
Board of Trustees and Headmaster
Thomas Straßer
On the Board of Directors and in the Executive Management team, Thomas Straßer is responsible for the Foundation, the School and Education.
“I consider agile approaches to school development on the path to becoming a ‘Smart School’ to be essential: for learners to deal competently with current challenges – particularly in the areas of sustainability and digital transformation – we need an adaptable learning culture in which children and young people are actively engaged in a holistic way and take control of their own learning.”
Thomas Straßer has been headteacher of Schloss Neubeuern Grammar School since February 2024; since January 2025, he has also served as a board member of the Landerziehungsheim Neubeuern Foundation. In this dual role, he has reorganised the institution’s management structure so that members of the management team can act with a high degree of autonomy. He bears overall responsibility for the direction and quality of teaching at the school and boarding house.
Prior to this, Thomas Straßer was headteacher of the Dante-Gymnasium in Munich from 2022 to 2024. From 2018 to 2022, he served as permanent deputy headteacher at the Hertzhaimer-Gymnasium in Trostberg, focusing on school development and digital education. For six years, he worked as a media education officer at the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research (ISB), where he designed state-funded programmes for digital learning and evaluated curricula. His career began in the classroom: as a teacher of German and Geography at the Bad Aibling Gymnasium.
Thomas Straßer studied to become a teacher at LMU and the Technical University of Munich. This was followed by a management training programme at the Dillingen Academy, training as a school development consultant, and, in 2018, a Master’s degree in School Management at the University of Kiel — culminating in a thesis on school quality at Bavarian private grammar schools.
Member of the Executive Board
Susanne Schörghuber
As a member of the management team, Susanne Schörghuber is responsible for the boarding school, business development and communications.
“Schloss Neubeuern is far more than just a place of learning. It is a living environment where young people discover who they are, what they are capable of, and what role they can play within a community. To do this, they must also find the courage to step outside their comfort zone. When a young person rises above their own limitations and discovers how they can make a difference to others through their individual strengths, that, to me, is the special value of the boarding school.”
Susanne Schörghuber has been head of the boarding school at Schloss Neubeuern — the heart of the boarding school — since May 2021. Her responsibilities also include recruiting new pupils from Germany and abroad, managing the school’s communications, and organising the boarding school’s wide range of events and activities.
Together with the school management, she continues to develop the overall educational concept and ensures that the day school and boarding school are closely integrated in terms of both content and organisation. For the boarding school, she devises distinctive programmes designed to support young people in their personal development. In doing so, she follows the guiding principle of ‘Step out of your comfort zone’: pupils should dare to try new things, discover their individual strengths and learn to contribute these confidently to the community. After all, every young person possesses knowledge, skills and talents with which they can find their own place and enrich community life.
Susanne Schörghuber has been associated with Schloss Neubeuern since 2017, initially as a teacher of German, Latin and media studies. From 2019, she served on the school management team and played a leading role in the school’s development. She helped establish the Schloss Neubeuern International Summer Camp and actively developed the school’s international outreach.
Her other initiatives include the launch and development of the Business Forum, as well as the creation of sustainable partner networks for Neubeuern Castle. She is particularly keen to strengthen links with the community of Neubeuern and the wider region. She sees opening up the school to the outside world and actively participating in village and regional life as essential for building trust, maintaining a good reputation and successfully attracting day pupils.
Susanne Schörghuber studied German, Latin and Media Education at LMU Munich with a view to becoming a secondary school teacher, and completed her studies with the second state examination following her teaching placement at the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich. In addition, she is undertaking an MBA programme specialising in management and leadership, which she is expected to complete in 2027.
Member of the Executive Board
Jürgen Schwenk
As a member of the management team, Jürgen Schwenk is responsible for the areas of business, finance and administration.
“A successful leader combines strategic thinking with pragmatic implementation: making complex issues understandable, developing viable solutions and implementing projects with a clear focus on cost-effectiveness, quality and sustainability. My approach is characterised by reliability, diligence, flexibility and a respectful attitude towards different perspectives.”
Jürgen Schwenk will take over as Financial Director of Schloss Neubeuern on 17 August 2026. He brings with him more than twenty years’ international experience in financial management, controlling, corporate finance and strategic organisational development — gained in consultancy, technology and educational organisations.
Since 2015, as Business Director, he has overseen the finances and day-to-day operations of the International School of Stuttgart, which has around 900 pupils from over 45 countries and 200 staff across two sites. He has brought lasting stability to financial planning and further developed the budget, reporting and governance structures. He oversaw the planning and organisation of a new campus building, representing an investment in the high double-digit millions, acting as the liaison between the client, planners, architect and contractor — from requirements planning through to commissioning. For seven years, Jürgen Schwenk also served as a volunteer treasurer for the school’s Friends’ Association. Prior to that, he spent a decade as Finance Manager and Head of Global Credit Management at the international technology group Avnet; he also worked as a freelancer for Ernst & Young in the Financial Accounting Advisory Services (FAAS) division on an international mergers and acquisitions project overseas.
Team Schloss Neubeuern
