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Stuttgart Incentives

Timeline 1936 - 1970: An electrifying tale

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

1936 - 1968 Adolf Leonhard
Professor of Electrical Engineering (suspended between 1946 and 1952)
1941 Minor Reform
The five Sections are reorganised into three Faculties (Natural Sciences, Civil Engineering and Mechanical Engineering) in preparation for the foundation of a Württemberg Central University (a merger of Hohenheim, Stuttgart and Tübingen) planned by the National Socialists
1941 - 1947 Evacuation of institutes
Relocation of individual institutes to locations such as Neckarhausen, Tailfingen and Schwäbisch Gmünd
1944 Air raids on Stuttgart
Most of the college buildings and facilities are destroyed
1945 Refectory and food for students
A student refectory is built from private contributions; the city of Stuttgart sponsors 10 free tables a week (2.75 RM) and provides trucks for the delivery of food; lunches made available in companies and private homes; Hoover food programme financed by American donations
1946 Stuttgart College of Technology reopens
after a 10-month break in teaching
1946 - 1947 Reconstruction duty
Prospective students are required to perform 6 - 8 months of reconstruction duty before studying at the college
1946 - 1948 Denazification process
Measures are taken to rid the college of supporters of National Socialism
1947 Students' Association is refounded
1949 - 1978 Max Bense
Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Science
1950 General Studies programme is launched
1950 College Advisory Committee is created
Consists of representatives of the college, state government, the city and the business community; its objective is to strengthen links between the college and the public
1954 The "Stuttgart Miracle"
Reconstruction of destroyed and damaged institutes from state funding, and grants by the city, the refounded Association of Friends of the College of Technology, the German Donors' Association for the Promotion of the Sciences and the Humanities, and the German Research Foundation (DFG); construction of a student hall of residence from an endowment by the US-German Max Kade; construction of a new student refectory
1955 - 1957 New sciences site at Pfaffenwald
A lack of space at the college leads to a new site debate; in 1956 the state government decides on the Pfaffenwald site; building of the first institute starts in 1957
1957 - 1977 Käte Hamburger
Professor of Literature and Aesthetics
1961 K I building opened
Inauguration of the K I (Kollegiengebäude 1) building and the university library in the city centre
1963 Expansion plan / teaching qualification courses
The Senate approves an expansion plan to allow teaching qualification courses to be held and to offer students of the music and arts academies the opportunity to study a subsidiary subject as part of a teaching qualification
1964 K II building opened
Inauguration of the K II building in the city centre
1964 - 1990 Frei Otto
Founder and head of the Institute for Light Two-Dimensional Structures (IL)
1967 Renamed Universität Stuttgart
1968 Higher Education Law
  • The differentiation within the university between the groups of professors, non-professorial staff and students is removed
  • Non-professorial staff and students are given decision-making rights
  • 3 Faculties transformed into 19 Sections
1969 "Higher Education Plan I"
Expansion of the university (in terms of student capacity), especially in the so-called "humanities mass subjects"

 

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Difficult early years
Chair and institute
"A marriage of theory and practice"
Biography: Adolf Leonhard
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