Technical University of Berlin Technische Universität Berlin
Established	1770/1799/1879 1946
Type	Public University
Endowment	State: EUR 267,2 Mio. (2007) External: EUR 78,0 Mio (2006)
President	Prof. Dr. Kurt Kutzler
Staff	6,966 (2007)
Students	26,812 (SS 2007)
Professional students	845 (2007) Research associates: 1,952 (2007)
Location	Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Website	www.tu-berlin.de

South Side of the main building

Main building

The Technical University of Berlin (TUB, TU Berlin, German: Technische Universität Berlin) is located in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1879 and, with nearly 30,000 students, is one of the largest technical universities in Germany. It also has the highest proportion of foreign students, with 20,9% in the summer semester of 2007, roughly 5,598 students. The university alumni and professor list include eight Nobel Prize winners. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... A professional degree or professional membership is an academic degree designed to prepare the holder for a particular career or profession, fields where scholarly research and academic activity are not the work, but rather a profession such as law, medicine, logistics, optometry, architecture, accounting, engineering, religious ministry, or education. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1728 × 2304 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 450 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (1728 × 2304 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... This article is about the capital of Germany. ... The Nobel Prizes (Swedish: ) are awarded for Physics, Chemistry, Literature, Peace, and Physiology or Medicine. ...

History

The old northern front of the main building, which was considerably damaged during the Second World War and replaced by a modern front in the 1960s

Unified in 1879 under the name Royal Technical College of Charlottenburg (later Berlin) by merging the Building Academy, established in 1799, and the Vocational Academy, established in 1829. Since 1916 it has been integrated with the former Mining Academy, which was the oldest institution, founded in 1770. Closed after the World War II on April 20, 1945 and reestablished on April 9, 1946 under its current name. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 506 pixelsFull resolution (1720 × 1088 pixel, file size: 242 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 506 pixelsFull resolution (1720 × 1088 pixel, file size: 242 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File historyClick on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... is the 110th day of the year (111th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar). ... is the 99th day of the year (100th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full 1946 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Campus

Hochhaus der TU Berlin (ehemaliges Telefunken-Hochhaus) mit Ausblick-Cafeteria im 20. Stock

Entrance of the main library of the Technical University of Berlin and of the Berlin University of the Arts

Areaway of the main building

Lichthof

The TU Berlin covers ca. 600,000 m², distributed over various locations in western Berlin. The main campus is located in the borough of Charlottenburg. The seven faculties have some 29,500 students enrolled in more than 50 subjects (June 8, 2005). Download high resolution version (600x800, 101 KB)Zentraleinrichtung für Moderne Sprachen (ZEMS) - TU Berlin 22 June 2004 Photographer: Nikolai Schwerg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Download high resolution version (600x800, 101 KB)Zentraleinrichtung für Moderne Sprachen (ZEMS) - TU Berlin 22 June 2004 Photographer: Nikolai Schwerg File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2016 × 1512 pixel, file size: 332 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Zentralbibliothek der TU und UDK, nächtliches Lichtspiel, selbst fotografiert Photographer: Florian Lindner camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ3 lens: built-in shutter speed... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2016 × 1512 pixel, file size: 332 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Zentralbibliothek der TU und UDK, nächtliches Lichtspiel, selbst fotografiert Photographer: Florian Lindner camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ3 lens: built-in shutter speed... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 400 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Berlin is subdivided into 12 boroughs (Bezirke in German), which are administrative units with political rights comparable to incorporated communities in the rest of Germany (although they are not separate legal entities from the city). ... Location of Charlottenburg in Berlin Charlottenburg palace Charlottenburg is an area of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. ...

Organization

Since April 4, 2005, the TU Berlin is divided into the following faculties: is the 94th day of the year (95th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ...

1. Humanities
2. Mathematics and Natural Sciences
3. Process Sciences and Engineering
4. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
5. Mechanical Engineering and Transport Systems
6. Planning - Building - Environment (merge of former faculties of "Civil Engineering and Applied Geosciences" and "Architecture - Environment - Society")
7. Merge with faculty 6 (see above)
8. Economics and Management

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Faculty and staff

There are 6,721 people working at the university: 319 professors, 1,832 postgraduate researchers, and 2,089 personnel working in the administration, the workshops, and the central facilities. In addition there are 1,803 student assistants and 161 trainees (January 2006). A professor is a senior teacher and researcher, usually in a college or university. ... Quaternary education or postgraduate education is the fourth-stage educational level which follows the completion of an undergraduate degree at a college or university. ... For the suburb of Melbourne, Australia, see Research, Victoria. ... Training refers to the acquisition of knowledge, skills, and competencies as a result of the teaching of vocational or practical skills and knowledge that relates to specific useful skills. ...

Library

The new common main library of the Technical University of Berlin and of the Berlin University of the Arts was opened in 2004. The library building was sponsored by Volkswagen and is named Volkswagen Library. All former 17 libraries of the Technical University of Berlin and of the nearby University of the Arts were merged into the new library, but several departments still retain libraries of their own. In particular the faculty 'Economics and Management' maintains a library with 340,000 volumes in the university's main building. The Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) in Berlin, Germany, was founded in 1975 with the merger of the Berlin State School of Fine Arts and the Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts. ... Volkswagen AG (ISIN: DE0007664005), or VW, is an automobile manufacturer based in Wolfsburg, Germany. ...

Notable alumni and professors

(Including those of the Academies mentioned under History)

• August Borsig, businessman
• Carl Bosch (1874–1940), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1931
• Wernher von Braun (1912–1976), head of Nazi Germany's V-2 rocket program, saved from prosecution at the Nuremberg Trials by Operation Paperclip, first director of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration's Marshall Space Flight Center, called the father of the U.S. space program
• Franz Breisig (1868–1934), mathematician, inventor of the calibration wire and father of the term quadripole network in electrical engineering
• Wilhelm Cauer (1900-1945), mathematician, essential contributions to the filter design of electronic filters
• Carl Dahlhaus (1928-1989), musicologist
• Dennis Gabor (1900–1971), physicist (holography), Nobel prize winner 1971
• Fritz Haber (1868–1934), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1918
• Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887–1975), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1925
• George de Hevesy (1885–1966), chemist, Nobel prize winner 1943
• Karl Küpfmüller (1897–1977), electrical engineer, essential contributions to system theory
• Wassili Luckhardt (1889–1972), architect
• Alexander Meissner (1883–1958), electrical engineer
• Erwin Müller (1911–1977), physicist (field emission microscope, field ion microscope, atom probe)
• Jakob Karol Parnas (1884–1949), biochemist, Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway
• Wolfgang Paul (1913–1993), physicist, Nobel prize winner 1989
• Ernst Ruska (1906–1988), physicist (electron microscope), Nobel prize winner 1986
• Karl Friedrich Schinkel (1781-1841), architect (at the predecessor Berlin Building Academy)
• Georg Schlesinger (1874–1949)
• Albert Speer (1905–1981), architect, politician, Minister for Armaments during the Third Reich, war criminal
• Hermann W. Vogel (1834–1898) photo-chemist
• Eugene Wigner (1902–1995),physicist, discovered the Wigner-Ville-distribution, Nobel prize winner 1963
• Konrad Zuse (1910–1995), computer pioneer

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Karl Küpfmüller (October 6, 1897 in Nuremberg – December 26, 1977 in Darmstadt) was a German electrical engineer, who was prolific in the areas of communications technology, measurement and control engineering, acoustics, communication theory and theoretical electro-technology. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... Wassili Luckhardt (* 22nd July 1889 in Berlin; † 2nd December 1972 in Berlin) was a German Architect. ... Alexander Meissner Alexander Meissner (in German: Alexander Meißner) (* September 14, 1883 in Wien, † January 3, 1958 in Berlin) was Austrian engineer and physicist. ... Electrical Engineers design power systems… … and complex electronic circuits. ... Erwin Wilhelm Müller (June 13, 1911 – May 17, 1977) was a German-born physicist who invented the field emission microscope, the field ion microscope, and the atom probe. ... Field emission microscopy (FEM) is an analytical technique used in materials science. ... 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See also

Other Universities of Berlin:

• Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin)
• Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Humboldt University of Berlin)
• Universität der Künste (Berlin University of the Arts)

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (FU Berlin, German: Freie Universität Berlin) is the largest university in Berlin, Germany. ... Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin The Humboldt University of Berlin (German Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) is Berlins oldest university, founded in 1810 as the University of Berlin (Universität zu Berlin) by the liberal Prussian educational reformer and linguist Wilhelm von Humboldt whose university model has strongly influenced... The Berlin University of the Arts (Universität der Künste Berlin) in Berlin, Germany, was founded in 1975 with the merger of the Berlin State School of Fine Arts and the Berlin State School of Music and the Performing Arts. ...

External links

• Official Homepage (Deutsch)
• Official Homepage (English)
• Map of campus
• Detailed History Page (English)
• Institut für Strömungsmechanik und Technische Akustik (Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Engineering Acoustics)
• Institute of Aero- and Astronautics
• Institut for Technology and Management

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