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
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1969 |
"Higher Education Plan I" Expansion of the university (in terms of student capacity), especially in the so-called "humanities mass subjects" |