Strelitz technical center

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Front view of the technical center
Front view of the technical center

Technikum Strelitz is the best-known name of a higher technical school, which existed from 1875 to 1991 under various names, for the training of engineers in civil engineering professions. It was founded in Buxtehude and later moved to Strelitz . The engineering school was located in today's Neustrelitz district of Strelitz-Alt until it was relocated to Neubrandenburg and incorporated into the newly founded Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences in 1991. From 1948 to 1991 the facility was called the Neustrelitz Engineering School .

history

Drawing of the entire complex of the technical center
Historical drawing from 1908
Side view of the technical center
Side view from the southwest

The Technikum Strelitz goes back to a polytechnic founded in Buxtehude in 1875 , which was relocated to Strelitz in 1890 and reopened as Technikum Strelitz by Max Hittenkofer . Just four years later, the departments for mechanical engineering, electronics and civil engineering were set up in addition to the already existing department for structural engineering. From 1912 the facility, which was run as a private school, belonged to Max Hittenkofer GmbH together with the Max Hittenkofer publishing house and a bookstore. In 1935 the sponsorship changed to the city of Neustrelitz. Two years later, the departments for mechanical engineering, electrical engineering as well as aircraft and automobile construction were relocated to the existing engineering academy in Wismar , and the construction department there moved to Neustrelitz. In 1939 the school received Reich recognition as a construction and engineering school and was thus on an equal footing with state schools.

After the end of the Second World War , it was reopened in 1948 as the "Engineering School for Construction Neustrelitz". In the 1950s, departments for rural construction and construction as well as urban engineering were established. Distance and evening courses for the training of technicians and masters were also set up. From 1960, civil engineering as well as courses in business-oriented subjects were created, in which, among other things, engineering economists were trained. In 1979 the company moved to a new school building, which was followed from 1985 to 1987 by a new laboratory and workshop building.

As part of the changes in the education sector after the political change in 1989/1990 , the courses in architecture , civil engineering and economics were converted into technical college courses . A year later, the school in Neustrelitz was closed and relocated to Neubrandenburg . It formed the basis for the establishment of the civil engineering and surveying department at the newly founded Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences . Individual parts of the building in Neustrelitz, especially laboratories, were used by the newly founded university of applied sciences for a few years until the appropriate infrastructure was set up in Neubrandenburg. However, the intended establishment of the former engineering school as an external location of the Neubrandenburg University of Applied Sciences did not materialize, as extensive renovation and new construction work would have been necessary in Neustrelitz and such a decision would not have complied with the recommendations of the Science Council .

Graduates

Advertisement dated August 1914 in a Russian magazine

Flexible study processes and a high level of practice-oriented training at the Technikum Strelitz guaranteed the graduates success in their professional development. The facility also attracted many foreign students. In 1913, for example, 290 of the total of 1,689 students (17.2%) came from the Russian Empire and the technical center advertised in Russian magazines in a prominent place. The graduates included:

  • The engineer and architect Archibald JW Pohl (graduate in 1893) led the construction of the tallest bank building in Brooklyn at 156 meters in New York.
  • The engineers Max and Robert Ardelt (graduates in 1895), as owners of the Ardelt-Werke , equipped the Niederfinow ship lift, among other things .
  • Ferdinant von Kleiner (graduate 1905) was involved as a civil engineer in the construction of the Zugspitz cable car .
  • The engineer Franz Keindl (graduate in 1912) was the technical director of a major Brazilian construction company.
  • The pyrotechnic engineer Friedrich Wilhelm Sander (1885–1938) was a companion of the rocket pioneer Fritz von Opel .
  • The civil engineer Ulrich Müther (graduate 1954) planned and built many special structures with hyperbolic parabolic shells in the GDR and domed structures abroad .

exhibition

In the historical building of the technical center in the Strelitz Alt district, currently the seat of Stadtwerke Neustrelitz, there is a permanent exhibition on the history of engineering training in Neustrelitz, consisting of original documents, display boards and other objects.

literature

  • Gustav Adolf Strasen: 100 years of civil engineering school. In: Carolinum. Historical-literary magazine. 54th year, school association "Carolinum" eV, Neustrelitz 1990, issue 104.
  • Geerd Dahms: Craft must be ennobled by art - the Strelitz technical center and the school reformer Max Hittenkofer. In: Bull and Griffin. Sheets on the cultural and regional history in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Volkskulturinstitut Mecklenburg und Vorpommern, Rostock 2004, p. 105 ff.
  • Helmut Böhme, Heinz Oldenburg a. a .: The Strelitz Technical Center - Max Hittenkofer. M & M Media and Marketing, Neubrandenburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-9811769-4-0 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ State Parliament Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Printed matter 1/3090 of April 26, 1993; Answer of the state government to the minor question from MP Stolt, parliamentary group of the SPD.
  2. ↑ Нива ( Niva ) 30/1914, title page. See https://www.runivers.ru/upload/iblock/239/Niva_tom_92_1914.pdf (p. 83)
  3. ↑ Gerlinde Kienitz: Graduates spread fame all over the world. In: Nordkurier, Strelitzer Zeitung , July 1999, (in the Mecklenburg-Strelitz series in the 20th century ).
  4. ↑ Book reference: The Strelitz Technical Center - Max Hittenkofer. In: technikum-strelitz.de , accessed on January 19, 2017.
       André Gross: Association keeps memories alive. A book made with passion for the technical center. In: Nordkurier , July 1, 2014.

Coordinates: 53 ° 20 '7.1 "  N , 13 ° 5' 26.3"  E