Technical University of Linz

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Technical University of Linz
activity 1943-1945
Sponsorship state
place Wilhering , Austria
Founding rector Wilhelm Hermann Jost

The Technical University Linz-Wilhering was a Linz university or technical university based in Wilhering . It was planned by the National Socialists for Greater Linz and provisionally set up in the expropriated Wilhering Abbey . Later a new building was to take place elsewhere in Linz, which no longer took place. The university only consisted of a structural engineering institute and an architecture course was set up. Further faculties were planned, but were not implemented.

The university was opened on October 3, 1943 by Reich Minister Bernhard Rust and Gauleiter August Eigruber in Wilhering Abbey. Initially there were only 12 enrolled students at the university.

In 1945 the Technical University was dissolved by the American occupying forces.

history

As early as 1869 and again in 1913, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the Archduchy of Austria tried to establish a technical university in Linz. After the end of the monarchy in 1918/1919 efforts were made to relocate the German Technical University Brno to Linz.

After the annexation of Austria , Adolf Hitler decided on October 22, 1938 that the Technical University of Brno should be relocated to Linz. On November 14, 1938, Hitler decided that the Brno TU should be retained, but that Linz should get its own TU as soon as possible. On March 30, 1939, Hitler decided that the TU Linz should be built on the site of the Petrinum . On May 16, 1939, the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education issued a decree to establish the Technical University in Linz with five faculties. On February 7, 1940, Hitler decided that it should be built according to plans by Wilhelm Jost, and in 1941 it was agreed that it would be commissioned in stages. In 1943 it was clear that there would initially only be one architecture department and that there would be a provisional location in Wilhering Abbey until the new building was completed (which was never started). On October 3, 1943, the Technical University in Wilhering Abbey was officially opened by Reich Minister Bernhard Rust and Gauleiter August Eigruber, with Wilhelm Jost as the founding rector. On January 8, 1945, Rector Jost was informed that the establishment of a civil engineering department had been approved.

In 1945 the Technical University was closed by the American occupying forces and the monastery building was returned to the religious order, which resumed monastic life in Wilhering. It was to take until 1966 for a university, the University of Linz , to open again in Linz .

In the post-war period there were again efforts to re-establish a technical university in Linz. Governor Heinrich Gleißner finally abandoned this idea in 1957 in favor of an economics university.

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Teacher (selection)

literature

  • Paul Böttinger: The Linz seminary during the time of National Socialism (1938-1945). In New Archives for the History of the Diocese of Linz. 8th year, issue 2, Linz 1993/94.
  • Reiner Pommerin : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 1: History of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin, Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02303-5 .
  • Hanns Christian Löhr: Hitler's Linz. The "home district of the Führer". Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86153-736-6 .
  • Maria Wirth, Andreas Reichl, Marcus Gräser: 50 years of Johannes Kepler University Linz: A "new style university". Böhlau, Vienna 2017.
  • Herbert Grau : Technical University. In: Kulturverwaltung der Stadt Linz (Ed.): Linzer Kulturhandbuch Volume I. Gutenberg, Linz 1965.
  • Willi Weinert: About the attempts to set up a technical university in Linz. With special consideration of the period 1938-1945. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Linz 1986, Issue 1, pp. 38–51, online (PDF) in the OoeGeschichte.at forum.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Maria Wirth, Andreas Reichl, Marcus Gräser: 50 Years of the Johannes Kepler University Linz: A "New Style College". Böhlau, Vienna 2017. p. 47 ff.
  2. ^ History of Wilhering Abbey
  3. ↑ Herbert Grau : Technical University. In: Kulturverwaltung der Stadt Linz (ed.): Linzer Kulturhandbuch Volume I. Gutenberg, Linz 1965, pp. 97–110.
  4. ^ Franz Lipp: Rudolf Heckl (February 20, 1900 - December 12, 1967). In memory. In: Upper Austrian homeland sheets . Year 22, Linz 1968, Issue 1/2, pp. 98–100, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
    Franz Lipp: Rudolf Heckl. In: Yearbook of the Upper Austrian Museum Association. Volume 113, 2, Linz 1968, pp. 9–12, online (PDF) in the forum OoeGeschichte.at.
  5. ^ Paul Ikrath, in: Web presence of the city of Linz
  6. ↑ Heinrich Perisutti, Graz University of Technology Alumni
  7. ↑ Adolf Schuhmacher. In: arch INFORM .
  8. ↑ Weinert 1986, p. 49.