Technical University of Leipzig

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Leipzig, Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse 132 , former headquarters of the University of Civil Engineering, then the TH Leipzig, today HTWK headquarters ( Geutebrück-Bau)

The Technical University of Leipzig (THL) was founded on January 17, 1977 as a merger of the Leipzig University of Civil Engineering (HfB) and the Leipzig University of Engineering (IHL). The founding goal was the creation of a technical university of the university type with a special profile, which combines technological-constructive aspects with theory and economy as well as providing personal and scientific support for the Central German industrial and economic area through training, further education and research.

In the course of German reunification, it was decided to liquidate the THL, so that it was closed in 1996 without a legal successor. With the buildings and the inventory of THL - but only partly from the staff - the Leipzig University of Technology, Economics and Culture (HTWK Leipzig) was re-established as a legally independent institution in 1992 .

history

The development of technical sciences began in Leipzig with Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz , who was born here in 1646, was a student at the Nikolaischule and completed part of his studies at the University of Leipzig . In particular, he created the differential and integral calculus, which is important for every technical science, in a practicable form. With his initiative on logic and the dual number system as well as the demonstration of his relay roller calculating machine (also for multiplications) in front of the London Academy Royal Society in 1673 , he opened up sustainable access to today's digital technology with computers and digital control technology for modern automation. He was accepted as an external member of the Royal Society and then founded three academies himself, which are still in existence today: in 1700 the Brandenburg Society of Sciences and the academies in Vienna and St. Petersburg. Leibniz, as the last universal genius, with his mathematical achievements greatly promoted the development of independent technical sciences and thereby achieved historical importance.

In addition to such theoretical roots, the TH Leipzig also has several institutional roots, such as the "Drawing, Mahlerey and Architecture Academie zu Leipzig", founded in 1764 over 250 years ago by the painter Adam Friedrich Oeser (he painted the Nikolai Church in the today; Johann Wolfgang Goethe was one of his students and remained lifelong friends), the “Royal Saxon Building Trade School in Leipzig ” founded in 1838, the “ Municipal Trade School in Leipzig ” (founded in 1875) and the “Technical School for Library Technology and Administration Leipzig “(Founded in 1914).

Within this academy, JP Habersang headed the architecture department and taught the subject of architecture. The application of mathematical and scientific knowledge was part of his scientific concept. The architect and builder Albert Geutebrück headed this architecture department since 1823 . According to his plans, the Royal Saxon Building Trade School in Leipzig was founded in 1838 , and he was appointed founding director. Geutebrück, who was also a city architect, recognized the need for a scientific orientation in training for the construction industry.

A proponent of technical education in Leipzig was Jacob Leupold , who was planning a mining and mechanics school in Leipzig. The physicist Ferdinand Braun exerted a particularly lasting influence on the development of technical sciences . He made a revolutionary discovery while working as a high school teacher at the Leipzig Thomasschule (traditional boys' choir Thomaner, directed by Johann Sebastian Bach for many years). In 1874 he reported in the Annalen der Physik und Chemie on the semiconductor effect in contradiction to Ohm's law, later the basis for detectors, diodes, transistors and today's microelectronics. His further discoveries and technical inventions for the cathode ray tube (Braun tube) enabled fast measurement technology with oscilloscopes and, from 1930, the development of fully electronic television by Manfred von Ardenne . With his semiconductors, Braun developed particularly powerful radio technology (1909 Nobel Prize for Physics together with Marconi ) and at the same time ensured the transfer of technology to industry (establishment of the Telefunken company). GW Leibniz and F. Braun prepared many of today's technical and scientific disciplines with their theoretical and practical work, including digital microelectronics, television technology, PC technology and cell phone technology.

The academy professor Ludwig Nieper founded the "Städtische Gewerbeschule zu Leipzig" in 1875. It is the historical root for technical and scientific training in the two new fields of mechanical engineering and electrical engineering . This vocational school, in conjunction with extensive workshops, offered technical lessons supported by practical craftsmanship. A newly built structure in Wächterstrasse 13, right next to the academy building, was completed in 1894 specifically for these needs and also included its own machine shop. This building later became the headquarters of the Leipzig Engineering School (IHL).

From 1877 to 1892 August Föppl was one of the most important teachers at this vocational school, who was finally appointed to the University of Leipzig, from here to the TH Munich in 1894 and continued to work there very successfully. Already in Leipzig he made an outstanding contribution to the theoretical penetration of technical processes. His textbook "Lectures on Technical Mechanics" was published in six volumes from 1898 to 1910 in Leipzig. We owe to him the closed vector-analytical representation of Maxwell's theory of electricity.

A well-known student at this municipal trade school was Walter Ulbricht , who was born and raised in Leipzig , who had completed an apprenticeship as a cabinet maker and completed it in 1911.

Immediate predecessor institutions

The THL was therefore not newly created, but continued a long tradition of technical educational institutions at a higher level, including the teaching centers for librarians, booksellers, museologists and polygraphers, which are closely connected to the book city of Leipzig. For its part, economics was committed to the city of Leipzig as an important trade, exhibition and economic center with a long tradition.

The Technical University of Leipzig was formed in 1977 by merging two universities:

  • University of Civil Engineering (HfB) Leipzig, Rector since 1970: Kurt Fiedler
  • University of Engineering Leipzig (IHL), Rector since 1969: Detlev Schmidt.

The University of Civil Engineering was re-established in 1954, which did not come about by amalgamating existing engineering schools, but remained in existence even after the HfB was founded.

When it was founded in 1969, the engineering college emerged from the amalgamation of two institutions:

  • Engineering School for Automation Technology Leipzig and
  • Engineering School for Polygraphy Leipzig.

In 1988 the engineering school for the energy industry in Leipzig was also integrated into the THL.

The academy and the building trade school had their headquarters together for more than 60 years in the academy wing of the Pleißenburg (today the New Town Hall), changed from 1886 to 1890 to the Alte Nikolaischule and then to the new academy building at Wächterstrasse 11 (today the University of Graphic and Book Art HGB, right next to it the former main building of the IHL at Wächterstrasse 13). In the same classroom, the teachers from both schools worked for mutual benefit.

The main building of the THL was the existing structure at Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 132, in which the University of Civil Engineering (HfB) and some of its predecessors were already based. In addition, the previous main building of the Leipzig University of Engineering (IHL) at Wächterstrasse 13 (then Dimitroffstrasse) and the IHL Polygrafie building complex on Gutenbergplatz were added as further university parts.

Management structures of the Technical University of Leipzig

With the third university reform in the summer of 1968, almost uniform structures were introduced at all colleges and universities in the GDR, so that the following description is largely of a general character (there were mainly deviations in the medical field at universities). In the course of this higher education reform, the existing institute structures were completely dissolved and sections were introduced as larger units (roughly comparable to the US departmental structures). The aim here was to achieve greater structural centralization in higher education. At the same time, a similar process of concentration began at the German Academy of Sciences as an academy reform by establishing central institutes.

The structure of the sections at the THL was subject to technical coordination within the higher education system and with the science academies (supplements to courses and research profiles, avoidance of overlaps) and geared towards the Central German industrial area. Based on the existing sections of the two previous universities, the TH Karl-Marx-Stadt (today TU Chemnitz) with its mechanical engineering profile and the neighboring TH Leuna-Merseburg with its chemistry and process engineering profile were taken into account. The sections of the building industry were kept to match the profile of the University of Architecture and Building Weimar and the German Building Academy Berlin and coordinated with the regional building industry. The two sections of electrical engineering have been coordinated with the TU Dresden , the HfV Dresden , the TH Ilmenau , the TH Magdeburg and the Academy of Sciences , Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes (ZKI).

The following sections have been set up at the THL, each headed by a full professor as section director, whose staffing has partially changed over the years. As a rule, each section was assigned a course of study , which was supplemented by further specializations:

  • Construction Production Technology Section (STB), Directors: Gunter Arnold, Werner Stärtzel, Stefan Röhling. Location: Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse.
  • Civil Engineering Section (SIB), Directors: Johannes Bosold, Alfred Bernt, Wolfgang Wittig. Location: Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse.

These two sections were merged in 1988 into a single civil engineering section, Director: Wolfgang Wittig, Deputy. Director: Stefan Röhling. Location: Karl-Liebknecht-Strasse.

Leipzig, Wächterstraße 13, former headquarters of the IHL and section building of the THL, today Wiener-Bau : Faculty building electrical engineering and information technology of the HTWK (in the background: academy building, today HGB )
  • Automation Systems Section (SAA), Director: Werner Richter . Location: Dimitroffstrasse, today Wächterstrasse
  • Electrical Power Plants Section (SEA), Directors: Friedrich-Wilhelm Kloeppel, Siegfried Altmann . Location: Dimitroffstrasse, today Wächterstrasse
  • Polygraphy Section (SPO), Directors: Rudolf Panzer, Thomas Helbig. Location: Gutenbergplatz
  • Mathematics and Computing Technology Section (SMR), Directors: Wolfgang Schäfer, Norbert Sieber, Hans-Jürgen Sebastian. Locations: Gohlis, later Gustav-Freytag-Straße
  • Socialist Business Administration Section, Directors: Joachim Tesch, Norbert Kammler, Roland Hofmann. Location: Gustav-Freytag-Straße
  • Section Marxism-Leninism (SML, no students of its own), directors: Johannes Aurich, Heinz Braß, Helmut Gast. Location: Gustav-Freytag-Straße
  • Natural Sciences Section (SNW, since 1983), Director: Hartmut Baumbach. Locations: Gohlis, later Karl-Liebknecht-Straße
  • Energy Technology Section (SET, since 1988), Director: Werner Pfeiffer. Location: Markkleeberg.

As GDR centers for the training and further education of executives in the construction industry, the following were located at the THL:

  • Industrie-Institut Bauwesen (II), Director: Reimar Hiller, Schauder
  • Institute for Socialist Economic Management Building (ISW), directors: Lothar Brückner, Reimar Hiller.

In 1982 the advanced training center building economics (WBZ) was formed with the task of training practitioners of the building industry in the field of economics.

Within the sections there were around 5 to 7 scientific areas (WB), each of which was headed by a full professor as chair holder. There was also a service area with a drawing office, workshop, etc. Ä.

The rector appointed the section director for an unlimited period of time. He had a deputy section director for education, training and further education (EAW) and a deputy section director for research. Both areas of responsibility were largely carried out independently by university lecturers. The circle of the section leadership also included the part-time functionaries of the trade union (FDGB), the students (FDJ) and the party (SED). There was also a section council , which also included external members; it was convened only at long intervals.

The workforce of a medium-sized section comprised a total of around 120 people. Of these, around 80 were academic staff: full and associate professors, university lecturers, senior assistants, lecturers, university teachers and associated academic assistants (with 4-year doctoral contracts) and around 40 employees (laboratory engineers, drawing office, workshop, secretariats, etc.). In addition, there were about 30 aspirants (scheduled and unscheduled) and research students with the aim of obtaining a doctorate. Around 450 to 550 students belonged to such a section.

In addition, there were individual special personnel structures. For example, the industrial-university complex system automation at the SAA, which was founded in 1981 as a joint facility of three industrial companies and the university, had over 60 permanent employees when it was dissolved in 1990.

The entire workforce of the THL in the founding year 1977 comprised a little over 1,000 employees, including 40 full professors (chairs), 68 university lecturers, 400 scientific employees and 500 workers. In the following 10 years the workforce increased and in 1986 it had over 1,250 employees, 65 of them full professors and 76 university lecturers. The following workforce had developed by 1990: 57 full professors, 75 university lecturers and 469 research assistants as well as approx. 500 workers and employees.

The rectorate level was made up as follows:

  • Rectors: founding rector Kurt Fiedler (STB); 1980 Wolfgang Altner (STB); 1989 Dietrich Balzer (SAA); 1990 Rolf Thiele (SIB); 1992 Klaus Steinbock (Department of Automation; as HTWK founding rector in personal union with the handling of the THL); Speakers to the Rector: Karl-Heinz König, Jochen Staude (THL and HTWK, 1990–2007). In the GDR, the respective rector was directly subordinate to the Minister for Higher and Technical Education (MHF) Hans-Joachim Böhme and was appointed by him at the suggestion of the university. The THL and its predecessor institutions had a total of 21 rectors, who are documented in a rector's gallery in the office of the rector of the HTWK.
  • 1. Vice-Rector: Johannes Weißflog, 1981 Gerhard Viehweger
  • Vice-Rector for Education and Training: Karl-Heinz Thielecke, 1982 Werner Stärtzel, 1987 Johannes Bosold, 1990/1991 Klaus-Peter Schulze
  • Vice-Rector for Natural Sciences and Technology / Scientific Development: Detlev Schmidt, 1978 Wolfgang Altner, 1980 Dietrich Balzer, 1988 Werner Stärtzel (official), 1988 Hans-Dieter Glas, 1991–1992 Werner Richter
  • Vice-Rector for Social Sciences: Werner Günther, 1985–1990 Norbert Kammler.

The THL had a senate , which was headed by the rector.

The Social Council brought together representatives from industry, business and the public; Management: Werner Doberitz, General Director of the Construction and Assembly Combine Chemistry (BMK) Halle / Saale.

At the THL, as in all larger GDR institutions and companies, social organizations were represented in the usual way: by full-time functionaries the trade union ( FDGB ), the students ( FDJ ) and the party ( SED ); in a part-time role the Chamber of Technology ( KDT ) as an engineering organization, the URANIA member group, the Kulturbund , the University Sports Association HSG THL ( DTSB ), the Society for Sport and Technology ( GST ), the Society for German-Soviet Friendship ( DSF ) and the Democratic Women's Association ( DFD ).

The rectorate level also included the technical directorates and departments: Administrative director / Chancellor (Siegfried Hillwig), directorates: planning and economics, study matters , research, management and qualification, international relations, university library; Departments: Computer center (in the SMR), foreign languages, student sports; Construction engineering project office of the Ministry of Higher Education and Technical Education (founded in 1967); THL's outpatient clinic (since 1979: 3 doctors, 1 dentist, 4 medical nurses, 1 admission staff).

The German reunification in 1990 meant a fundamental change for the THL in political, structural and personal terms. As part of the alignment with German technical universities, a restructuring was carried out, which led in particular to the dissolution of the sections and the formation of the following departments : civil engineering, automation, energy technology, polygraphy, mathematics and computer science, natural sciences, economics, institute for humanities and social sciences. Institutes were founded within these departments .

Academic structures

Since its establishment, the THL has had the right to award academic degrees on three levels:

  • the first academic degree diploma through a section (Dipl.-Ing. and Dipl. oec.)
  • the doctorate of a branch of science ( doctorate A ) by the two faculties, each headed by a full professor as dean: doctor-engineer (Dr.-Ing.) and doctor of economics (doctor oeconomicae, Dr. oec.)
  • the Doctor of Science (Doctorate B) by the Scientific Council, which was chaired by the Rector: Doctor scientiae technicarum (Dr. sc. techn.) and Doctor scientiae oeconomicae (Dr. sc. oec.); corresponds to the habilitation , therefore later conversion to Dr.-Ing. habil. and Dr. oec. habil.

The Scientific Council thus comprised two faculties with correspondingly granted doctoral rights, based on the largely uniform doctoral regulations for all colleges and universities in the GDR:

  • The Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, deans: Clemens (SIB), 1981 Kurt Fiedler (STB), 1985 Hans-Günther Woschni (SAA).
  • The Faculty of Social Sciences, deans: Walter Draeger (SML), 1980 Rudolf Waterstradt (SBW).

Honorary doctors in the tradition of the THL include : Gottfried Brendel, Wolfgang Henschel, Iwan Wassiljewitsch Komsin, Otto-Heinrich Ledderboge, Ernst Lewicki, Fritz Liebscher, Ernst Ludwig, Erwin Pohl, Josef Riha, Wladimir Wiktorowitsch Solodownikow, Eduard Steiger, Nicolai Antonowitsch Strelschuk, Alexander Wassiljewitsch Wolshensky.

The title of honorary professor was awarded to Heinz Hänisch, director of the Institute of Test Field and High Performance Technology (IPH) Berlin.

Initial and continuing education

The training profile of the THL had developed step by step: since 1977: technology of building production, civil engineering, automation technology, electrical engineering, polygraphy, socialist business administration; since 1979: municipal civil engineering; since 1983: natural sciences; since 1988: energy technology; since 1989: computer science; since 1990: Technomathematics.

In the first 10 years of its existence, over 5,000 direct and distance learning graduates have left the THL, including 180 foreign students from 19 countries. These graduates were assigned to the following subjects (courses of study) between 1977 and 1986:

  • Construction production technology: 1,028
  • Civil engineering, municipal civil engineering: 977
  • Automation systems: 754
  • Electrical power systems: 645
  • Polygraphy technology: 229
  • Business Administration / Engineering Economics Construction Industry: 763
  • Engineering economics of the industrial institute : 395
  • Distance learning: 278

Total number of THL graduates: 5,069 (direct and distance learning in the first 10 years 1977–1986).

A total of 2,022 participants completed the postgraduate course (qualification as a specialist engineer or specialist economist) from 1977 to 1986.

At ISW construction 3,296 trainees at the training took part from 1977 to 1986 as a whole.

The WBZ Bauökonomie held around 30 events for practitioners each year and had a total of 6,475 participants since its foundation in 1982 to 1986.

Research, technology transfer and scientific events

At the time it was founded, the THL had a research potential of 241 full-time employees including 30% student research (diploma theses, etc.). With the further increase in the number of chairs and the associated academic mid-level staff, the research potential has grown noticeably. The increase in doctoral degrees has also made a significant contribution to this, in particular from research students who, after completing their diploma, have completed a three-year postgraduate course with a doctoral goal. The content of research at the THL was geared towards the university's special application orientation.

Numerous doctoral procedures were completed at the THL from research in the period 1977–1992 : 304 doctorates, 61 habilitations and 3 honorary doctorates.

A novelty in technology transfer and a specialty in the GDR was in the automation systems section of the industrial-university complex system automation (IHK) that was created in 1980 under the leadership of Werner Kriesel . The three industrial operations of the Leipzig-Grimma chemical plant construction, Leipzig-Grimma chemical plant construction and Leipzig-Halle high-voltage electricity plant, as well as the Leipzig Technical University jointly financed the IHK's personnel and material costs, so that here, under the direction of Werner Bennewitz, problems related to technology transfer were dealt with to a considerable extent. Based on these positive experiences, a corresponding university-industrial research group for electrical energy systems (HIFOG-EEA) was formed at the Electrical Energy Systems section in 1984 , which was headed by Wolfgang Löschner . On the industrial side, the Institute Test Field and High Performance Technology (IPH) Berlin and the Kombinat Elektroanlagenbau (KEA) Leipzig were involved. The concept of these two institutions at that time was similar in its function and structure to today's third-party research in an affiliated institute with transfer tasks from research to application.

The THL gradually developed a system of scientific events that were carried out both with international participation and in a national framework and as interdisciplinary university events . The International Congress of Industrial Building (IKIB) and the international scientific conferences on system automation, electrical system construction, polygraphy, optimal control, non-destructive testing in construction, economic problems in construction (ÖKOBAU) and ideological problems are mentioned. The Leipzig Metal Construction Colloquium, the Leipzig Automation Colloquium (LAK) in cooperation with the Leipzig District Association of the Chamber of Technology , the Colloquium Economic Assessment in Urban Development and the Network Optimization Colloquium all took place on a national level. Interdisciplinary events related to the technology colloquium, artificial intelligence and software technology.

The history of technology was also included in the research and events were held. The "Device Collection for the History of Automation Technology" founded by Hans Rohr at the IHL in 1973 was continued, expanded and theoretically supported by the THL at the GDR level by Hans Rohr and Andreas Koch and made known through exhibitions and publications. On this basis, the HTWK founded the Automatic Museum in the Alte Nikolaischule in 1996 , one of whose well-known students Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz had been.

Research results were published in the company's own publications, "Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift" and "Wissenschaftlicheberichte". In addition, members of the THL became increasingly involved in scientific journals and book publications (monographs, edited volumes, specialist and textbooks), which were successful and therefore often appeared in several editions.

International university connections

The THL maintained various international connections which were coordinated by the Directorate for International Relations (Directors: Siegfried Proboll, from 1988 Bernd Ebert). All sections were involved in international partnerships with technical universities in Eastern Europe. These include the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute (MISI), the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (MPI), the Kiev Polytechnic Institute (KPI), the Technical Universities of Wrocław, Poznań and Kraków in Poland, the Technical Universities of “Ybl Miklós” and “Kandó Kálmán " in Budapest. In addition to the mutual visits of university professors to courses, joint scientific events and publications, the students who took part in junior scientist conferences and the international student summer also benefited.

The relations to the United Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna , the largest research center for nuclear and particle physics in the Eastern Bloc, where scientists from the THL stayed for study visits, should be emphasized .

The Germany-recognized reputation of civil engineering of the THL was to thank that in 1988 on the recommendation of the Minister of Higher and Specialized Education Hans-Joachim Boehme , a university agreement with the University of Karlsruhe (TH) has been completed, which should encourage cooperation between the technical sections. During the transition period after 1990, this was also the basis for the support from the university chancellor of this university in the restructuring of the university administration at the THL. This cooperation also supported the development of third-party funded research at the THL, in particular through cooperation with the Research Center for Computer Science (FZI) at the University of Karlsruhe.

There were also research projects with universities in Western Europe, some of which were funded by the DFG . So there was B. joint projects with scientists from universities in Turku, Tampere and Helsinki, Tilburg, Madrid and Zurich.

Participation in international scientific organizations (selection):

  • IVBH (International Association for Bridge and Structural Engineering)
  • IFAC (International Federation of Automatic Control)
  • IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing)
  • RILEM (Réunion International des Laboratoires d'Essais et de Recherches sur les Matériaux et les Constructions)
  • EATCS (European Association for Theoretical Computer Science).

After the border opened in 1990, there were new opportunities to develop internationalization in teaching and research. This was not only used by the members of the THL, but above all the British and French universities tried to involve the TH Leipzig in ICP projects of the EU. In this way, the foundation stone was laid for successful participation in the Erasmus program with more than 50 new university partnerships for student and employee exchanges in the years when the THL was expiring .

Awards

Professors emerging from the THL (selection)

The following professors either studied at the THL, received their doctorate here or did their habilitation here or previously worked at the THL before they were appointed professors at another institution outside the THL:

  • University of Leipzig: Rolf Thiele (last THL Rector)
  • Leipzig; Berlin; Erfurt: Wolfgang Tiefensee (Lord Mayor, Honorary Professor; Federal Minister, Member of the Bundestag, Minister in Thuringia)
  • Technical University of Dresden: Klaus Kabitzsch (Dean)
  • University of Hanover: Bernd Oswald
  • University of Lüneburg: Klaus Fiedler
  • HTWK Leipzig: Klaus Steinbock (founding rector), Ulrich Ziegler (founding chancellor), Manfred Nietner (rector), Hubertus Milke (rector), Udo-Michael Elefant (prorector), Peter Leidhold (prorector), Friedel Peldschus (prorector), Klaus Dibowski ( Vice-Rector), Markus Krabbes (Dean, Vice-Rector), Hans-Günter Woschni (Dean), Günter Stein (Dean), Matthias Sturm (Dean), Regina Weg (Dean), Siegfried Altmann , Klaus-Peter Schulze, Jürgen Wenge, Rolf Grohmann , Andreas Hebestreit, Tilo Heimbold , Andreas Pretschner, Hendrik Richter, Wolfgang Uhlmann, Dieter Heinze, Jens Jäkel (Dean), Wolf-Peter Ettel, Horst Sahlmann, Jochen Quade, Hans-Ehrenfried Goeben, Volker Slowik, Klaus Thomas, Dieter Schilk, Dieter Liebau, Frank Schumann, Reiner wedding slip, Klaus Bastian, Bernd Engelmann, Klaus Fritzsche, Karl-Udo Jahn
  • University of Telecommunications Leipzig: Detlef Schlayer (Vice Rector), Constans Lehmann, Brigitte Obst, Jürgen du Puits, Ines Rennert
  • University of Merseburg: Werner Kriesel , Manfred Lohöfener (Dean), Peter Helm
  • University of Applied Sciences Zittau / Görlitz: Jürgen Bergmann (Dean)
  • University of Applied Sciences Erfurt: Michael Kappert, Oksana Arnold
  • Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences: Dieter Haentzsch (Dean)
  • Senftenberg University: Petre Iancu
  • Brandenburg Technical University Cottbus-Senftenberg: Daniela Döring
  • Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences: Jörg Hoffmann
  • Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences: Gunter Grieser
  • Częstochowa / Poland: Leszek Kieltyka
  • Kavalla / Greece: Moissis Triandafilidis et al

completion

As a result of the GDR's accession to the Federal Republic of Germany, educational sovereignty changed to the responsibility of the newly founded federal states. As a result, Saxony had to finance a total of 8 technical universities after German reunification. The Saxon State Ministry for Science and Art (SMWK) followed the recommendations of the Science Council : the TU Dresden , the TU Chemnitz and the TU Bergakademie Freiberg were formed, and five technical universities were closed at the same time: HfV Dresden , TH Leipzig, IH Mittweida , TH Zittau , TH Zwickau . In their place, less expensive universities of applied sciences were founded.

The recommendation of the Science Council was justified as follows with regard to the THL: "[...] The Science Council considers a continuation of the university engineering training at the TH Leipzig not necessary in terms of demand and also not justifiable from the point of view of higher education policy priorities, since the necessary renewal and further development in all Engineering subjects at the TH would require considerable increases in personnel and investments. In view of the need to create a differentiated higher education in the state of Saxony on the one hand and the large capacities in the engineering sciences, the Science Council recommends that the TH Leipzig establish a university of applied sciences. [... ] "

The TH Leipzig was closed step by step between 1992 and 1996, after the University of Technology, Economics and Culture Leipzig (HTWK) was newly founded as a legally independent institution in mid-1992 . Thanks to this overlapping procedure, all THL students who were already enrolled had the opportunity to continue their studies and complete their studies with a university diploma without changing universities. The opportunity was also given to complete doctoral theses that had already been started.

literature

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Web links

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