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Stuttgart Incentives

Timeline 1839 - 1883: More than just a solution

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United Secondary and Vocational School Vocational School Polytechnical School Polytechnic Royal College of Technology College of Technology Universität Stuttgart

1839 - 1883 Hermann Fehling
Senior teacher of Chemistry and Technology – Professor from 1867 onwards
1840 Vocational School is renamed Polytechnical School
1847 Foundation of the first student fraternities
Foundation of the Stauffia fraternity; numerous others are founded in the following years
1862 Structural reforms
Divided into two sections: a junior mathematical section for pupils aged 16-18 and a senior one with four specialist schools (Architecture, (Civil) Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, and Chemical Engineering)
1869 - 1877 Friedrich Theodor Vischer
Professor of German Literature and Aesthetics
1870 Expansion of the Polytechnical School
A Mathematics and Sciences School and a General School are added to the specialist schools
1876 Name changed to Polytechnic
Moves closer to university status by abolishing the two mathematics pre-school classes and introducing a new entrance qualification (secondary school leaving examination is required)
1878 - 1922 Carl Julius (von) Bach
Professor of Mechanical Engineering
1879 50th Anniversary
Six-day celebration, inauguration of a new building
1882 Electrical Engineering Section established
1882 First large-scale acquisition of third-party funding
Establishment of the Materials Testing Institute with the help of a donation of 10,000 marks from the surplus from the State Trade Exhibition

 

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From Paris to the Swabian capital
Fehling's test
Building a future for a region short of raw materials
Growing pains
Paris - London and back to the desk
Biography: Hermann Fehling
Incentive timeline