University of Applied Sciences Dieburg
The Dieburg University of Applied Sciences was a university of applied sciences in Hesse , which, after several conversions, has been part of the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences since 2000 . Today's Dieburg campus, sometimes referred to as the “Dieburg media campus”, is the second largest of the university and accommodates current media, business and information science courses.
On the campus in Dieburg, the Federal Post Office's engineering academy opened with 140 students in the 1968/69 winter semester . At that time, the public universities were unable to train enough communications engineers to expand the telecommunications network .
The engineering academy became a state-recognized university of applied sciences in 1971. From 1972 women were admitted to study.
Until the privatization of the Deutsche Bundespost, students could receive financial support from the Bundespost in addition to BAföG benefits. For this, the students had to contractually bind themselves to the Bundespost. This contractual relationship has not been canceled to this day. A change to another employer or other employer (in the case of civil servants) is therefore prohibited. The aim of the operation of the university of applied sciences and the study funding was to cover the enormous demand of the Federal Post Office for engineers.
At times there were around 2,000 students with around 90 professors and lecturers.
In addition, the Post and Telecommunications Department of the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration was created on the premises . At this university of applied sciences, the next generation was trained for the upper non-technical service of the Bundespost.
After the privatization of the Bundespost through Postal Reform II , the capacities were reduced, but the range of subjects was expanded (business administration, real estate management). A total of around 6,000 telecommunications engineering students were trained at the engineering academy and the technical college. Over 1,500 Post and Telekom employees received training.
In 2000, Deutsche Telekom gave up the technical college. The state of Hesse merged the technical college with the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences. Initially, Hessen did not have to pay anything for the use of the property and furnishings; later a symbolic price of one euro was paid for taking over the property.
With financial support from the state, the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences modernized the location. The building stock in Dieburg was characterized by 60 meter high dormitory towers , some of which were completed in 1968. They were demolished in 2012.
source
- Janek Rauhe (2012): Dieburg University of Applied Sciences - Demolition with sadness. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung May 25, 2012. Available online; accessed on August 30, 2015.
Web links
- Documentation of the demolition of the dormitories - designed by online journalism students from Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences .
Coordinates: 49 ° 54 ′ 3 ″ N , 8 ° 51 ′ 24 ″ E