Student Association of German Engineering Schools

The Student Association of German Engineering Schools eV (SVI) was founded in 1947 in Hagen as a supraregional representation of the students at the then higher engineering schools and academies. To represent common interests across all types of university, from 1952 he formed the Federal Student Association together with the Association of German Student Associations (VDS) and the associations of other types of university .

In the 1960s, the SVI successfully campaigned for the upgrading of higher technical schools and academies to become technical colleges . In the course of the student movement, the association became politicized and in 1975 merged with the VDS to form the "United German Student Unions".

From 1949 to 1970, the SVI published a monthly magazine called SVI-Nachrichten (from 1959 under the title: der Junge ingenieur ).

Web links

• Helmut Kahlert: Forgotten Actions. How the technical college came into being (About the strike movement of engineering students 1968/69 and the SVI's contribution to the creation of the technical college) on www.stiftung-sozialgeschichte.de