Chemnitz University of Technology

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Chemnitz University of Technology
Technische Universität Chemnitz

Established	1836
Type	Public
Endowment	89.9 million EUR
Chancellor	Eberhard Alles
President	Klaus-Juergen Matthes
Faculty	1,231 full-time
Students	10,302
Doctoral students	105
Location	Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany
Website	www.tu-chemnitz.de
Data as of 2005

Chemnitz University of Technology is located in the town of Chemnitz in Germany. With over 10000 students it is the third largest university in Saxony and around 750 international students from one of the 100 universities all over the world are enrolled each year. It was founded in 1836 as Royal Mercantile College ("Königliche Gewerbeschule") and became technical university in 1986.

1 History
2 Structure
- 2.1 Faculties
3 Research
4 External link
5 References

[edit] History

[edit] Foundation

The tradition of science in this region goes back to the 16th century with Georg Agricola, a famous German scholar of minerals, being the cities mayor. In 1836 the Royal Mercantile College was established as a scientific base to support the industrial revolution. In 1882 more than 1,000 students registered for this College. Modern scientific areas like electrical engineering were included in the studies. These developments made it possible that the institution became a Royal Technical Academy ("Königliche Gewerbeakademie"). Especially this academy helped Chemnitz to become one of the industrial centers in the beginning 20th century. At this time Chemnitz had the highest number of patent registrations in whole Germany and hence also in the whole world^[1].

[edit] Inside the German Democratic Republic

The city of Chemnitz was heavily damaged during the World War II with corresponding results for the Technical Academy. After some time of adaptation to the new conditions the status of a Technical College ("Technische Hochschule") was awarded in 1963. At the end of the 1960s the College was composed of faculties for Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Engineering and Humanities. With the rising number of students the institution became an official University of Technology in 1986.

[edit] After Germany's Reunification

At the end of the German Democratic Republic the academic system of Eastern Germany was integrated into to the Western one. Chemnitz was actively supported to remain as a third university beside Leipzig and Dresden inside saxony. Therefore, in 1992 and 1993 two new faculties were established. The Faculty of Economics and Business Administration and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences expanded the university's broad field of studies towards a full university. Efforts for more multidisciplinarity between the exact sciences and these new scientific areas were made. The university introduced combined research projects and inter-facultary study courses. Within a few years the number of students doubled to the actual level of around 10,000.