Max Bense Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Science
1957 - 1977
Käte Hamburger Professor of Literature and Aesthetics
1964 - 1990
Frei Otto Founder and head of the Institute for Light Two-Dimensional Structures (IL)
1972
"Higher Education Plan II" Proposed reorganisation of the Universität Stuttgart and subjects into three "university sectors" within Stuttgart (subdivided into subject areas). This plan was not put into effect.
1972 - 1993
Karl-Wolfgang Mundry Professor of Botany
1973
Amendment of the Higher Education Law Reduction of university autonomy
1976 - 1977
"Structural Plan"
shift from university expansion plans towards a cost-cutting policy
humanities are almost abolished (especially teaching qualification courses)
after fierce protests the continued existence of the humanities is ensured and only moderate cuts are made