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