 Jahrhunderts v. Chr" (Forms of private display in the architecture of the 2nd and 1st centuries BC).In 1984 he became a C2-Professor at Munich and in 1987 he received a Chair at the University of Cologne, where he was spokesman for the graduate programme "Formierung und Selbstdarstellung städtischer Eliten im Römischen Reich" (Formation and Self-Representation of Civic Elites in the Roman Empire) and Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy from 1995 to 1997.From November 2006 until spring 2014, von Hesberg was the first director of the of the German Archaeological Institute.