Management team. Schloss Neubeuern.

Nice to finally meet you.

Board of Trustees and Headmaster

Thomas Straßer

“I consider agile forms of school development on the way to becoming a smart school to be essential: in order for learners to deal competently with the current challenges – especially in the areas of sustainability and digital transformation – an adaptable learning culture is needed in which children and young people become active in a holistic way and control their own learning.”

Mr Straßer studied teaching at the LMU and TU in Munich, specialising in German and geography. After his traineeship, he taught at Bad Aibling secondary school for several years and completed the management qualification programme at the academy in Dillingen.
He then moved to the State Institute for School Quality and Educational Research (ISB) for six years as a full-time consultant for media education, where he worked in project management in the design of state programmes for digitally supported education and in curriculum evaluation. He also completed training as a school development counsellor and a master’s degree in school management at the University of Kiel, which he completed in 2018 with a thesis on school quality at Bavarian private grammar schools.
From 2018 to 2022, Mr Straßer worked as a deputy headteacher at Hertzhaimer-Gymnasium Trostberg and was particularly involved in school development measures in the field of digital education.
In 2022, Mr Straßer was appointed headmaster of Dante-Gymnasium Munich, where he was able to get to know the special features of a renowned large city school with an elaborate school profile. In February 2024, he took over as Head of School at Schloss Neubeuern Grammar School and was appointed to the Board of Trustees at the start of 2025.

Boarding School Director

Susanne Schörghuber

“I am convinced of the importance that Schloss Neubeuern has for children and young people and therefore ultimately for our society: a value-orientated, forward-looking education with an open-minded attitude, within a community that offers them the framework to develop their individual personality.”

Susanne Schörghuber took over the management of the boarding school at Schloss Neubeuern on 1 May 2021. She studied German, Latin and media education at LMU Munich to become a secondary school teacher. In 2017, she decided to take up a permanent position as a teacher at Schloss Neubeuern. Since 2019, she has been involved, initially as a member of the school management team, in the area of school development and, in teamwork with Christian Seigis (mentor) and Barbara Steils (Head of the International Department), has been in charge of the International Summercamp Schloss Neubeuern. Susanne Schörghuber discovered her passion for the close connection between school and boarding school in this particularly intensive supervision of children aged between 12 and 14 from all over the world and now devotes herself wholeheartedly to this task in her position as Head of Boarding School at Schloss Neubeuern.
Working closely with the school management, she primarily promotes the Education Plus area by offering the Schloss-Panorama, guilds, social services and, together with the pupils, is committed to a community-building leisure programme.
With her many years of experience and expertise in digital didactics, she also teaches the lower school in the important area of media education.

Deputy Headmaster

Manfred Forstner

Manfred Forstner studied sport at the TU Munich and economics at the LMU Munich and has been working at the Gymnasium Schloss Neubeuern since 1990.

In his first years at the castle, he taught economics and law exclusively in all classes and also introduced the economics branch in Neubeuern as a subject supervisor during this time.

From September 2004, Mr Forstner took over as deputy headmaster at Neubeuern Grammar School.