List of well-known personalities from the Technical University of Chemnitz
The list is intended - without claiming to be exhaustive - to provide an overview of people who are associated with the Chemnitz University of Technology and its predecessors through honorary degrees, academic work and teaching, as well as graduates.
Heads, directors and rectors
- Christian Benjamin Schmidt (1836-1838)
- Eduard von Polenz (1838–1841)
- Julius Ambrosius Hülße (1841–1850)
- Georg Schnedermann (1850–1866)
- Eduard Theodor Böttcher (1866–1876)
- Hermann Oberreit (1876–1877)
- Gustav Wunder (1877-1885)
- Rudolph Berndt (1885–1908)
- Karl Mühlmann (1908–1920)
- Heinrich Oskar Wend (1920–1926)
- Paul Schimpke (1926–1945)
- Erich Körner (1945–1948)
- Herbert Seidel (1948–1951)
- Helmut Bremser (1951–1955)
- August Schläfer (1953–1959)
- Edgar Pietsch (1959–1961), did not run
- Gerhard Junghähnel (1959–1961), ad interim
- Willy Nebel (1961–1963)
- Hans Jäckel (1963–1969)
- Christian Weißmantel (1969–1973)
- Horst Weber (1973–1982)
- Manfred Krauss (1982-1989)
- Friedmar Erfurt (1989–1991)
- Günther Hecht (1991–1997)
- Christian von Borczyskowski (1997–2000)
- Günther Grünthal (2000-2003)
- Klaus-Jürgen Matthes (2003-2011)
- Arnold van Zyl (2012-2015)
- Gerd Strohmeier (since 2016)
Honorary senators
- Ernst Schack (April 25, 1960)
- Emil Rupp (January 1, 1969)
- Kurt glasses (April 1, 1969)
- Paul Görlich (April 1, 1969)
- Johannes Walther (March 1, 1971)
- Hans Jäckel (April 6, 1983)
- Willy Nebel (April 6, 1983)
- Horst Weber (April 6, 1983)
- Christian Weißmantel (April 6, 1983)
- Kurt Müller (December 3, 1984)
- Rudolf Winter (November 15, 1986)
- Eberhard Langer (July 1, 1989)
- Manfred Krauss (July 10, 1989)
- Fritz Thieme (September 22, 1997)
- Edgar Heinemann (September 1, 1998)
- Günther Hecht (January 28, 1999)
- Hans Fehringer (January 16, 2002)
Honorary doctors
- Heinz Bethge (1984)
- Franz Gustav Kollmann (1994)
- Erich Loest (June 28, 2001)
- José Manuel Barroso (May 8, 2009)
University professor
- Ludwig von Auer , Economics
- Fritz Beckert , educational psychologist
- Christian Bermes , philosophy
- Rudolf Boch , history
- Dieter Bochmann , electrical engineering
- Albrecht Böttcher , mathematics
- Eduard Theodor Böttcher , mechanical engineering
- Hartwin Brandt , story
- Ditmar Brock , Sociology
- Peter-Klaus Budig , electrical engineering
- Josef Bugl , Technology Assessment
- Reinhard Diestel , mathematics
- Werner Dilger , computer science
- Gerhard Dohrn-van Rossum , history
- Hans Dresig , mechanical engineering
- Peter Fey , electrical engineering
- Alfred Förster , Business Administration
- Lothar Fritze , political science
- Jürgen Golle , music
- Ludwig Gramlich , law
- Pure large , history
- Günther Grünthal , history
- Fritz Helmedag , Economics
- Rudolf Holze , electrochemistry
- Julius Ambrosius Hülße , Mechanical Technology
- Eckhard Jesse , political science
- Klaus Dieter John , Economics
- Steffen Kailitz , political science
- Joachim Käschel , Economics
- Josef F. Krems , Psychology
- Frank-Lothar Kroll , story
- Hans Lauter , Marxism-Leninism
- Henning Laux , sociologist
- Bernd Leistner , literary studies
- Harald Lönnecker , historian, archivist and lawyer
- Peter Loos , business informatics
- Klaus-Jürgen Matthes , mechanical engineering
- Eckhard Meyer-Zwiffelhoffer , history
- Dietmar Müller , electrical engineering
- Bernhard Nauck , Sociology
- Friedrich Naumann , historian
- Reimund Neugebauer , mechanical engineering
- Beate Neuss , political science
- Anton Ohorn , history of literature
- Christian Pentzold , Communication and Media Studies
- Siegfried Prößdorf , Mathematics
- Miloš Řezník , story
- Gustav Richter , Economics
- Knut Richter , Economics
- Klaus Sachs-Hombach , philosophy
- Oliver Schmidt , physics
- Claus Scholl , law
- Kajo Schommer , start-up management
- Michael Schreiber , physics
- Astrid Schütz , psychology
- Bernd Silbermann , Mathematics
- Albert Soergel , history of literature
- Alfons Söllner , political science
- Julius Adolph Stöckhardt , Agricultural Chemistry
- Gerd Strohmeier , political science
- Hendrik Thoss , history
- Johannes Volmer , transmission technology
- Gerd-Günter Voss , Sociology
- Gert Wanka , mathematics
- Adolf Ferdinand Weinhold , Physics and Chemistry
- Folker Weißgerber , management
- Christian Weißmantel , Physics
- Bertram Winde , physics
- Helmut Woll , business education
- Eugen-Georg Woschni , electrical engineering
- Klaus Wucherer
- Cornelia Zanger , Marketing and Commercial Management
Graduates
- Guido Uhlemann (1824–1904), manor owner, secret economics councilor and conservative Saxon politician
- Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel (1838–1915), architect
- Ewald Richard Klien (1841–1917), railway engineer
- Paul Schreiber (1848–1924), meteorologist and inventor
- William Lossow (1852-1914), architect
- Valerius Hüttig (1869–1934), engineer
- Willy Pöge (1869–1914), entrepreneur, horse, cyclist and motor sportsman
- Martin Hammitzsch (1878–1945), architect
- Rolf Frick (1936–2008), university professor, entrepreneur and politician (FDP)
- Hans-Jörg Kannegießer (1943-2010), engineer and politician (CDU)
- Tim Peters (* 1973), lawyer, political scientist and EU official
- Bernd Steinbach (* 1952), professor for software technology and programming technology
- Christoph Scheurer (* 1956), politician (CDU), district administrator of the Zwickau district
- Stefan Winckler (* 1967), political scientist and journalist
- Sahra Wagenknecht (* 1969), politician (Die Linke), Member of the Bundestag
- Anita Maaß (* 1976), politician (FDP), mayor
- Carsten Linnemann (* 1977), politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
- Anja Herrmann (* 1980), journalist and television presenter
- David Füleki (* 1985), comic artist and non-fiction author