Engineering school for mechanical engineering

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The engineering school for mechanical engineering was a school in Darmstadt .

history

In 1892 an expanded craft school was established. The sponsor was the Darmstadt Trade Association. In 1898 the crafts school was converted into a municipal trade school. The trade school also had a department for mechanical engineering.

The mechanical engineering department was spun off in 1919 as the municipal mechanical engineering school - based on the model of the Prussian mechanical engineering schools. In 1925, the municipal mechanical engineering school was expanded to become a higher mechanical engineering school and made independent. At the same time, the training for mechanical engineers was extended from four to five semesters .

In May 1934, the mechanical engineering school was renamed the Higher Technical Institute for Mechanical Engineering and it was also possible to start studying in the summer semester. In 1939 the school was renamed the Darmstadt Municipal Engineering School . The engineering school had been housed in the building of the former bank for trade and industry since 1923 .

In 1943 the school was closed. The engineering school building was badly damaged in an air raid in 1944. After the school building was partially destroyed, the students were housed in very cramped conditions, spread over several locations in Darmstadt.

After the end of the war, the engineering school was rebuilt and an electrical engineering department was added. In April 1948 the first electrical engineers were graduated . In July 1951, has been training workshop for the processing of thermoplastic plastics opened.

In 1955 the course was extended from five to six semesters. At the same time, the range of courses was expanded to include the fields of electrical power engineering and communications engineering . In 1958 the engineering school was taken over by the state. In 1959 the specialist department for plastics technology was founded. At the beginning of the 1960s, the range of courses was expanded to include automation technology.

In 1965 the engineering school was relocated to the newly built high-rise on Schöfferstraße. This high-rise is still the tallest building in Darmstadt to this day. From 1966 onwards one could obtain the engineering degree for plastics technology at the engineering school.

In August 1971 the engineering school became part of the electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and plastics technology departments at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences .

literature

  • Roland Dotzert among others: Stadtlexikon Darmstadt. Konrad Theiss, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 978-3-8062-1930-2 , p. 427.