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1828

The Technical School is founded in Dresden and the Royal Saxon Commerce Deputation takes over the administration. Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann (1796-1840), who did great scientific service as Inspector of the Saxon Cameral Survey, is the director. For the time being, the domicile of the institute is located very modestly in the Garden Pavilion on Brühlsche Terrasse and in a vault of the Kuffenhaus on Zeughaus Square. Outstanding teachers were convinced of the merits of working at the institute. Among them was Johann Andreas Schubert, designer of the first operational German steam locomotive "Saxonia."

1833

Due to the need for substantially more space, the Technical School is moved to the former armory at Jüdenhof.

1844/ 46

A new building is erected at Anton Square, according to the plans of the architects Heine (1802-1880) and Arndt (1807-1889), to house the Technical School. Gottfried Semper (1803-1879) gives his expert opinion of the new building, in which he also writes about fundamental thoughts concerning architectural problems.

1851

The establishment is renamed the Royal Polytechnical School. Under the initiative of the Director, Julius Ambrosius Hülsse (1812-1876), and with the close cooperation of the Royal Government Commissioner Dr. Weinlig, the "Upper Department" is divided into three sections that concentrate the students into three subject areas. The right exists to award certificates, based on "Matriculation Examinations," which allow the bearer to pursue a subject as a trade.

1865

Introduction of a new organizational plan. The "Lower Department" now sets up a "General Course" that all students must take. The "Sections" of the "Upper Department" are developed into four technical schools: Mechanical Technical School (A), Engineering School (B), Chemistry Technical School (C), and another school whose tasks consist of training future teachers of Mathematics, Natural Sciences, and Technology. The program duration at the technical schools is set at three years. The distinction is now made between "students" who take the "General Course" and students who attend the Technical School.

1871

In recognition of the high level of the education offered in technology and the natural sciences, the school is renamed the Royal Saxon Polytechnical College. The Polytechnical College takes on the character of a university. The administrative hierarchy is still organized autocratically, however. The technical schools are now referred to as departments. 281 students are enrolled at the college (more than 60 % belong to the Engineering Department).

1873

Gustav Zeuner (1828-1907), internationally renowned Thermodynamics Engineer and Epistemologist, is appointed Director of the Polytechnical College. Besides taking classes in the Technological Sciences and Natural Sciences, studying the Arts and Linguistics is also highly regarded. Thus, the following subjects are taught in the "General Sciences Department": Economics, Jurisprudence, Philosophy, History, Art History, History of Literature, and Modern Languages.

1875

The representative main building of the Polytechnical College is completed near the main train station. With the founding of the Structural Engineering Department, the tradition of teaching architecture at the college is established.

1883

Introduction of the Diplom Examination in place of the Absolutorium. Students are now required to write a Master's thesis, as is the case at the Universities of Technology in Vienna, Graz, and Stuttgart.

1890

The status of the Polytechnical College increases. It is now called the Royal Saxon Technical College. Ernst Hartig (1836-1900), professor of Mechanical Technology, becomes the first elected College Rector. 308 students, including 28 foreigners, are registered at the university.

 

1900

The Doctoral Degree Regulations take effect.
Friedrich Siemens (1826-1904) receives the first honorary doctorate from the TH Dresden. 1007 students study at the TH Dresden (Technical College of Dresden), including 232 foreigners, primarily from Eastern and Southern Europe, but also from overseas. According to the plans of Karl Weißbach (1841-1905), large buildings are erected for the Mechanical Engineering laboratories and the Electrotechnology Institute on the grounds at the foot of the Räcknitzer Höhe (on George Bähr Street and Helmholtz Street in the southern suburb that was being developed at the time) . Shortly thereafter, this complex is expanded to include an Electricity and Heating Power Station.

1902

Arthur Schloßmann (1867-1932) is appointed Associate Professor of Physiological Chemistry and General Physiology. As early as 1897, Schloßmann, together with the major industrialist Karl August Lingner (1861-1916) and other Dresden citizens, founds the "Verein Kinderpoliklinik in Johannstadt mit Säuglingsheim" that erects the first in-patient institute for the care of infants in the world in 1898. The institute becomes the precedent for today's Children's Hospital of the Carl Gustav Carus Faculty of Medicine.

1913

The Faculty of Civil Engineering receives a large and representative new building, known today as "Beyer-Bau".

1914/ 18

322 members of the College are killed in battle during World War I in their role as enlisted men, non-commissioned officers, and officers. Among them is fighter pilot and former TH Dresden student Max Immelmann (1890-1916).

1918

The Institute of Automotive Engineering is founded under the direction of Adolph Nägel (1875-1939).

1919

The Institute of Metallurgy and Materials Science is founded.

1919/ 20

Introduction of the Foreign Studies Seminar.

1921

Founding of the "Society of Sponsors and Friends of the Technical College of Dresden", which the leading representatives of the Saxon State Government, industry, and banks join.
Establishment of the association "Economic Aid for the German Student Body" (since 1929 known as the "Deutsches Studentenwerk" at the TH Dresden). After the first successful efforts in the form of the "Dresden University Economic Society," this Dresden student self-help organization develops into one of the leading organizations of its kind in Germany.
The General Department is separated from the Mathematics-Natural Sciences Department.

1922

Economics becomes a subject in the General Department of the TH Dresden. As opposed to at the universities, the focus at TH Dresden is not only on technical subjects, but also on Industrial Psychology and Psychotechnology.

1923

Incorporation of the College of Education Dresden-Strehlen into the General Department of the College (as of 1925 known as the Department of Cultural Studies). Economics, Political Science, Jurisprudence, Pedagogy, History, Art History, Comparative Linguistics, and Comparative Literature are firmly established at the TH. The university character of the college thereby steadily grows.

1924

Founding of the Institute of Measurement Engineering and Interchangeable Manufacture under the direction of Georg Berndt (1880-1972). Expansion of the Physics Institute, including setting up the Laboratory for Applied Radiography.

1925

Completion of the residence hall on the site donated by Theodor Bienert..

1928

Under the rectorship of Adolph Nägel, the TH Dresden celebrates its 100th anniversary on June 4, 1928. The university now has 63 full, 22 associate, and 17 honorary professors. 24 private lecturers are also teaching. The number of students reaches 2705, with an additional 332 students attending and sitting in on lectures.

1929

By ministerial decree, the Tharandt Forestry Academy (later called the Forestry College), founded by Heinrich Cotta (1763-1844) and one of the oldest academic training institutions for forestry in the world, is annexed to the TH Dresden as a department.

1933/ 34

The College is forced into line and the Principle of Leadership is introduced. Because of the "Law for the Reestablishment of Permanent Civil Service", famous university teachers are forced out of their posts and suffer reprisals. Among them are the physicist and discoverer of the crystal photon effect, Harry Dember (1882-1943), the romanist Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), the doctor and hygienist Rainer Fetscher (1895-1945), the political scientist Robert Wilbrandt (1875-1954), and Paul Luchtenberg (1890-1973), professor of Pedagogy, Philosophy, and Psychology, and future co-founder of the FDP and Culture Secretary of North-Rhein Westphalia.

1936

The College of Education is separated from the TH Dresden.

1942

The College departments are renamed faculties:

• Faculty of General Science
• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Forestry Science

1945

Air raids over Dresden on February 13 and 14, 1945 cause great loss of life at the university. Many buildings are heavily damaged or destroyed.Soviet occupation forces take control of the College. Most members of the Nazi Party (NSDAP) are fired from their posts as teachers or administrators. Some of those who are let go are later re-hired.

1946

The Technical College of Dresden reopens under the most difficult conditions. The internationally recognized Professor of the Bases of Mechanical Engineering and Conveying Engineering, Dr. Enno Heidebroek (1876-1955), becomes the first rector.
Setting up of:

• Faculty of Education
• Faculty of Municipal Economics
• Faculty of Forestry

491 students are enrolled with the permission of the Soviet Military Administration in Germany (SMAD) (453 students actually begin to study). They are taught by 42 university teachers, including several lecturers and assistants.

Friedrich Adolf Willers (1883-1959) holds the first mathematics lecture for students of all subject areas.

1949

7 Faculties are established (including the faculty that prepares young factory and agricultural workers for studying at universities that emerged from an institution for preliminary studies): Fakultät für Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften

• Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences
• Faculty of Civil Engineering
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering
• Faculty of Economics and Traffic and Transportation Science
• Faculty of Forestry Science
• Faculty of Education and Cultural Studies

 

1950

On April 25, 1950, the foundation stone is laid for the new complex of buildings on the road "Zellescher Weg", which today houses institutes of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences. Since 1961, a part of the building complex has been called "Willers-Bau". In 1994, the lecture hall building is named "Trefftz-Bau". On April 20, 1951, the Faculty of Transport and Communications is opened and the foundation stone is laid for the building complex on the street "Hettnerstraße".

1952

On the basis of a central decision, the Faculty of Transport and Communicationsat the Technical College of Dresden becomes the College of Transport and Communications in September 1952. The Faculty of Electrical Engineering is founded (until 1951 there was a Department of Electrical Engineering within the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering). Among the most well-known scientists are Heinrich Barkhausen (1881-1956) and Ludwig Binder (1881-1958).

1954

The Department of Lightweight Construction is founded on instructions of the State Secretariat for Higher Education.

1955

Already in 1950, construction begins on the new Low-Voltage Institute called the Barkhausen Building. Until 1955, the first three stages of construction of the extensive building complex between Helmholtzstraße and Georg-Schumann-Straße are completed. The complex is used by the Department of Electrical Engineering. Founding of the Department of Nuclear Technology. It remains until 1962.
There are 9 Departments.

1956-1960

On the North side of the road "Zellescher Weg" the "Andreas-Schubert-Bau" for the newly-founded Department of Nuclear Technology is erected. In 1962, this department is dissolved. Today it is used by various institutes of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

1956

Aus der bisherigen Fakultät für Leichtbau der TH Dresden wird die Fakultät für Luftfahrtwesen gebildet. Im Jahre 1961 erfolgt deren Auflösung.

1957

The TH Dresden takes over the former District Court building. The construction and renovation of the building complex that was heavily destroyed in the war lasts until 1961. Primary users are the Faculties of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Hydroscience and Forestry. Since 1961 it is called "Georg Schumann Bau". After 1990, parts of the building complex are renamed "Hülsse-Bau" and "Tillich-Bau".

1961

The Technical College of Dresden receives the status of Technical University. During the ceremonies on October 5, 1961, the rectorship is given from Werner Gruner (1904-1995) to Kurt Schwabe (1905-1983). Kurt Schwabe was the leading sponsor of the founding of the university. 10,741 students are registered, of which 4 per cent are foreigners.

1965

The Technical College of Dresden receives the status of Technical University. During the ceremonies on October 5, 1961, the rectorship is given from Werner Gruner (1904-1995) to Kurt Schwabe (1905-1983). Kurt Schwabe was the leading sponsor of the founding of the university. 10,741 students are registered, of which 4 per cent are foreigners.

1968

In accordance with the 3rd University Reform, the structure of the TU Dresden (Dresden University of Technology) is also radically changed. Structures which have grown over history are negated under increasing party-political influence. The traditional scientific institutes are done away with. The Departments lose their original significance. 22 Sections are formed.

1986

The Dresden Engineering University, rich in tradition and founded in 1861 as a trade school, is united with the TU Dresden and becomes the Center for Information Studies of the university system of the GDR. At the end of 1990, the Faculty of Computer Science is founded.

1990

Setting up of Faculties (February 12, 1990):

• Faculty of Social Sciences
• Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
• Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Electronics
• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Faculty of Construction, Hydroscience, and Forestry

Election of the new senate from the circle of chosen members of the Academic Council (February 26, 1990).
Election of Professor Günther Landgraf [2] of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering to Rector by the Academic Council (Investiture on March 12, 1990).
11,220 students are registered, of which 8.6 % are foreigners.

1991

The Senior Governmental Director Alfred Post, formerly Vice-Chancellor of the Universität-Gesamthochschule Essen, becomes Chancellor of TU Dresden. The reconstruction of the University Administration begins. 13,000 students are enrolled.
Beginning of the integration of the "Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Wander" College of Education and the university part of the "Friedrich List" College of Transport and Communications into the TU Dresden. Preparation of the founding of a Faculty of Medicine at the TU Dresden.

Festive refounding of the Society of Sponsors and Friends of the Dresden University of Technology. The first founding celebrates its 70th anniversary. The TU Dresden becomes a member of the German Research Association (DFG).
Founding of the Academy of Further Education and Transfer of Knowledge at the Dresden University of Technology e. V.

1991/ 94

Confirmation and newfounding of the following faculties on the basis of the Law concerning the Structure of the University System and the Universities in the Free State of Saxony of April 10, 1992

 

1993

Academic Council meets at the TU Dresden and for the first time in the new Federal States. The Hannah Arendt Institute for the Research of Totalitarianism is opened on the basis of a comprehensive resolution of the state parliament.

1994

Professor Achim Mehlhorn of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences is elected Rector by the Council of the TU Dresden in June 1994 (Re-elected in 1997).
A Heart Center is opened at the Faculty of Medicine.

1995

The Technology Center Dresden receives a new building as a science transfer partner of the University. The University opens the reconstructed Guest House on the street "Einsteinstraße".

1996

Foundation stone is laid for the new Lecture Hall Center of the TU Dresden with four large lecture halls, twelve seminar rooms and one art room, with a total of 3,470 seats.
Topping-out ceremony for another nursing house at the main entrance of the University Hospital and for a second Guest House at Weber Square.
Founding of the Institute for Air and Space Technology.
Founding of the Saxon State Library, State and University Library Dresden on the basis of a law.
First heart transplant in Dresden (in 1977 the first liver transplant within the then COMMICON), Handing over of the Bone Marrow Transplant Center of the University Hospital.
Festive celebration on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the reopening of the TH/TU Dresden.

1997

The Foundation Association of German Science awarded the title "Reform University" to TU Dresden due to its innovative reform ideas and makes available to it the sum of 600 000 DM for continuing these activities. The university has developed a competent management structure; the distribution of resources to the faculties is carried out according to performance-related criteria and, compared to other universities, controlling is extremely well developed.  Marketing and public relations are exemplary, according to the evaluation by the Foundation Association. Thus, TU Dresden is among the most innovative universities of Germany.

Roofing ceremony for the Auditorium Centre in Bergstraße.

Inaugural ceremony of the new building of the Cardio-Vascular Centre of Dresden on the site of the University Hospital "Carl Gustav Carus" (29 September 1999). It is financed by the private "Roland Ernst Foundation  for Public Health" and by a real estate fund.

1998

Since January the High Performance Calculation Centre (ZHR), as a centrally located scientific institution, supports the faculties in their teaching and research tasks.

The new Auditorium Centre of TU Dresden will open on 13 October 1998. Herewith, TU Dresden has at its disposal the, so far, largest and most modern  Auditorium Centre of East Germany. Six lecture halls with a total of 2.840 seats, among them the auditorium maximum with 1.000 seats, as well as 10 seminar rooms and one drawing hall are available to professors and students.

1999

On 27 April 1999, Kofi Annan, the General Secretary of the United Nations, will be awarded the degree of honorary doctor of the TU Dresden in recognition of his excellent qualification in economics and his outstanding achievements in the planning and the implementation of the reorganisation of the UN as well as in the creation of citizen-friendly and quickly-reacting UN structures. With the degree of honorary doctor being conferred upon Kofi Annan, the international politician is honored by the Faculty of Economics for his academic and practical efforts in the propagation of sustained world-wide economisation based on social market economy.

The Media Design Center (MDC) of the University commences its work. As a centre of high competency the MDC offers research-relevant services in the field of virtual learning and teaching within and without the university.

 

2000

On 31 May, the Medical Theory Centre (MTZ) at the TU Dresden will be handed over. The MTZ includes seven institutes of pre-clinical research and clinical theory, the Experimental Centre of the Faculty of Medicine and approximately 3.000 square metres for research purposes. Additionally available are two lecture halls, classrooms for practical work and eight seminar rooms with a total capacity of approximately 700 seats.

On 19 June 2000 Nobel prize winner Professor Günter Blobel, MD/ PhD (Rockefeller University, Laboratory of Cell Biology, New York) will be appointed honorary senator of the TU Dresden. With this appointment the university not only expresses its appreciation of the Nobel prize winner. Over and above that, Mr. Blobel, as an honorary senator, will contribute his  expert knowledge from his work in research and science to act as an advisor to  the Senate of TU Dresden

2001

On 14 March the regulations for the the management and the operation of the Biotechnological Centre of the TU Dresden (BIOTEC) will be adopted by the Senate. BIOTEC is a centrally located scientific institution aiming at using the rapidly developing rate of knowledge in modern biology and biochemistry in medicine, technology, and  nutritional development.

On 16 October the first part of the new building of the Chemical Institute at  TU Dresden will be handed over. This building offers excellent working conditions for the almost 200 employees of the Institute of Organic Chemistry, Food - and Biochemistry as well as Analytical Chemistry.

2002

On 16 April the Max-Bergmann-Centre for Biomaterials will be inaugurated. The new research building was established in co-operation with TU Dresden and the Institute of Polymere Research (IPF). The scientific policy of the centre has the goal to become a structural model for close co-opration between universities and institutions of the Scientific Asociation "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibnitz".

For the first time in the history of the university there are more than
30.000 students enrolled, among them 8.5 percent international.
 

2003

On 14 January the new Saxon State and University Library (SLUB) will open in Zellescher Weg. With its almost 30.000 square metres of principal utilisable space, six million media units and 990 seats in reading rooms, it is the fourth-largest and most modern library in Germany.

In May, TU Dresden celebrates its 175th anniversary with a week of festivities. Solely for this occasion Professor Wilfried Krätzschmar has composed a symphony, which will be performed at the "Große Haus" Theatre on 3 May. Further highlights are the first exhibition of "Fascination: Art + Technology" in  the new ALTANA-Gallery at the renovated Görges-Bau and the performance of the play "Alma: Journey Through Time" by Walther Henkel performed by students and staff members during the ceremony on 6 May.

On 9 July Professor Hermann Kokenge will be elected new Rector of TU Dresden. He will succeed Prof. Dr. Achim Mehlhorn, who had held the position for three terms of office.

On 10 July the Saxon Prime Minister, Georg Mibradt, will sign the University Contract. With this, the universities in Saxony shall receive personnel and financial planning security until  2010. This contract, also called "university consense", means for TU Dresden that, among other things, the Faculty of Law will be transferred to Leipzig. Simultaneously, the courses of studies for civil engineering students as well as the students of trade and commerce will be concentrated on Dresden. The contract negotiations had been accompanied by students´ protests.

On 22 October the foundation-stone was laid for the new building of the Department of Computer Science.

2004

Work started on the renovation of the TU Dresden building complex in Mommsenstraße – the former office of the rectorial board / the central administration / the old dining halls Alte Mensa.

In March 2004, a topping-out ceremony marks the completion of the new buildings for the TU Dresden biology institutes on Zellescher Weg.

May 2004 sees the official start of the Children’s University with more than 1,000 children registering for the lecture programme.

In November 2004, a topping-out ceremony is held to celebrate the completion of the new building for the department of computer science in Nöthnitzer Straße.

Chipmakers AMD and Infineon in co-operation with Fraunhofer Society open the Fraunhofer Center Nanoelectronic Technologies (CNT).

2005

TU Dresden is an important partner within the competition "DRESDEN – City of Science 2006". The network „City of Science“ is still active today.
All Magister programmes are being transferred into Bachelor programmes (BOLOGNA process).

In 2005, the DFG approves funding for the research field Regenerative Therapies. On 1 January 2006, the DFG approves the field as a research centre for twelve years with a funding total of 60 mio Euro. The DFG research centre stands as a landmark for TU Dresden’s development into a leading European centre of biology, medicine and biotechnology.

On 1 July 2005, the nuclear training reactor AKR-2 is commissioned by the TU Dresden scientific community. The new construction of the AKR-2 allows academics and students of TU Dresden to work at the most modern nuclear training reactor in Germany.
On 9 September 2005, ground is officially broken for the Diagnostic-Internal-Neurological Centre (DINZ) at the University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden.

2006

In January 2006, the former rector of TU Dresden, Professor Achim Mehlhorn, becomes president of the further education institution Dresden International University (DIU).

TUD is the only university in East Germany that was granted funding both of a graduate school (Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering) and an excellence cluster (From Cells to Tissues to Therapies) in the first round of the excellence initiative for promoting top-class university research.
 
In October 2006, the new building complex for the computer science department was opened in Nöthnitzer Straße.

And also the new buildings for the biological institutes (Zellescher Weg) are brought into service.

On 1 November 2006, the rector’s post is filled for the term 2006 to 2009 after three ballots. The outgoing holder, Professor Hermann Kokenge, got the most votes in the third ballot.

2007

In July, the administration building in Mommsenstraße is reopened after several years of renovation.

At the same time, extensive  renovation and the new addition to the dining hall complex Mensa Mommsenstraße are completed.

Moreover this is the year that TU Dresden receives the basic certificate of the audit ‘family-friendly university’. Along with the Saxon State Ministry of Science and Art and the Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research TU Dresden forms the core of the Dresden network Dresdner Netzwerk berufundfamilie (Dresden Network Career and Family) that is joined by further institutions.

2008

On 17 July 2008, the topping-out ceremony for the second section of the new addition to the chemical institutes is held.

Late in autumn, students from allover Saxony come to Dresden to protest against the amendment of the Law on Higher Education in the Free State of Saxony.

2009

In January 2009, TU Dresden started an association of 14 cultural and research institutions called DRESDEN-concept – Dresden Research and Education Synergies for the Development of Excellence and Novelty – which is unique in Germany. This association aims at making the excellence of research in Dresden widely visible.

In June students again mount protests with their education walkout action.

On 14 October 2009, the Trefftz building is reopened after extensive renovation and modernisation.

2010The first part of the construction process on the Diagnostic-Internal-Neurological Centre DINZ is completed. The Public Enterprise Saxon Property and Construction Management (SIB) is handing over building 48 with its new extension to the University Hospital.

The Extended Senate of TU Dresden elected Prof. Dr. Dr.-Ing. habil. Hans Müller-Steinhagen rector for a term of five years in June 2010. Prof. Müller-Steinhagen had been director of the Institute for Engineering Thermodynamics at the German Aerospace Center (DLR) and also professor and director of the Institute for Thermodynamics and Heat Engineering at Stuttgart University.

In September 2010, TU Dresden makes several proposals within the initiative for excellence by the federal government and the länder. It is the aim of the excellence initiative to promote top-level research and to improve the quality, reputation and sustainability of Germany as a hub of higher education, science and technology.

The STUDENT FOUNDATON DRESDEN wins the award Hochschulperle 2010. The Stifterverband (innovation agency for the German science system) every month picks a small innovative HE project and the winner of the year is determined by online voting. The award Hochschulperle was designed to make the public more aware of excellent projects in the higher education system.
In October 2010, 7,900 students take up studies at TU Dresden. Thus the TU Dresden student community includes 36.000 registered students.

2011

On 2 March, the DFG and the Science Council (Wissenschaftsrat) decide that TU Dresden cleared the first hurdle in the excellence competition and invite the university to make full proposals for its institutional strategy and one excellence cluster (Cfaed - Center for Advancing Electronics Dresden).