Weihenstephan Science Center

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Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and the Environment
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founding 1868 (as TH in Munich)

1970 (Weihenstephan Campus)
2000 (Weihenstephan Science Center)

place Freising
state Bavaria
country Germany
dean Thomas Becker
Students approx. 5,000 (winter semester 2014/15)
Employee approx. 1500 (March 2012)
including professors 90 (Dec 2017)
Website www.wzw.tum.de

The Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment of the Technical University of Munich ( WZW ) in Freising - Weihenstephan comprises six research departments and six study faculties. The WZW is part of the Technical University of Munich .

The interdisciplinary interlocking of all life sciences disciplines on the Freising-Weihenstephan campus enables research into the entire life cycle of food and raw materials. Weihenstephan researchers investigate the value chain from the genetic and biological basis, through production, to processing and consumption. In addition, the WZW is closely linked to the Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences and the Bavarian State Institute for Agriculture , which are also located on campus.

More than 90 professors look after around 5000 students. Research focuses on biotechnology and genetic engineering , biogenic raw materials, nutritional physiology as well as the process engineering of the material conversion from raw material to food (with the traditional brewery chairs), sustainable land use, forestry , wood research, ecosystem research and ecology .

Study faculties

Six study faculties ensure flexible and modern university education:

Research Departments

The six research departments are intended to contribute to the formation of academic identity and external impact by combining professorships and subject areas that are related in terms of subject and academic methodology:

  • Life science fundamentals
  • Nutritional and food science
  • Engineering science for food and biogenic raw materials
  • Ecology and ecosystem management
  • Plant science
  • Animal science

Development of the Weihenstephan university location

  • In 1803, the Bavarian Elector and later King Max Joseph of Bavaria founded a forest school in the buildings of the Weihenstephan Monastery, which were vacant due to the secularization in Bavaria , then a model agricultural school and the "Kurfürstliche Central Baumschule Weihenstephan" in January 1804 .
  • 1807 closure of the school due to the Napoleonic Wars (1792–1815);
  • 1822 reopening of the agricultural school in Schleissheim and 1852 relocation to Weihenstephan;
  • 1855 Founding of the Bavarian main research institute for agriculture by Justus von Liebig;
  • 1895 Weihenstephan becomes the "Royal Bavarian Academy for Agriculture and Breweries";
  • 1907 The Weihenstephan experimental brewery was established.
  • 1928–1930 the Weihenstephaner Academy was incorporated into the Technical University of Munich (later TUM);
  • 1970 Scheduled expansion of the campus, the cafeteria and the central lecture hall building with internship building;
  • 1998 relocation of TUM Biology to Weihenstephan;
  • 1999 With the decision of the Bavarian Council of Ministers, the Forest Science Faculty of the Ludwig Maximilians University Munich (LMU) was integrated into the Technical University of Munich.
  • 2000 Foundation of the Weihenstephan Science Center for Nutrition, Land Use and Environment: The three faculties “Agriculture and Horticulture”, “Brewing, Food Technology and Dairy Science” and “Forest Science” were merged with TUM Biology to form a new, interdisciplinary faculty.

See also

Web links

Commons : Weihenstephan Science Center  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Design - not manage! TUM, Faculty of Brewing and Food Technology, October 24, 2016, accessed on March 3, 2017 .
  2. ↑ TUM in numbers. Technical University of Munich, accessed on September 1, 2015 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 23 '42.5 "  N , 11 ° 43' 44.8"  E