Technische Universität Darmstadt


About the University
On January 1st, 2005, the Technische Universität Darmstadt became the first autonomous university in Germany. This results of the dynamic and future-oriented course the university has taken in the past years and its innovative approach to combining excellent education with excellent research. The university, founded in 1877, offers a wide range of subjects, not only in the traditional fields of natural and engineering sciences, but also in those of social sciences and the humanities. It is a leading German research university in engineering, natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and economics as well as a member of the TU9 Group (top nine Universities of Technology).

Centres of research excellence include: biotechnical engineering, computational engineering, integrated product design and process development, nuclear and radiation physics, integrated traffic and transport systems, urban research, nuclear structure and nuclear astrophysics at the superconducting electron accelerator S-DALINAC, communication in biological systems, physics and technology of accelerators, modeling, simulation, and optimization of engineering applications, among others. The combination of engineering and economics, including foreign languages and internships abroad programmes, offers graduates outstanding opportunities, as does the university’s exceptional international network, with partners in the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East.

About the City
Darmstadt was chartered in 1330 and became the residence of the Hessen-Darmstadt line (a grand duchy from 1806). Notable landmarks include the statue of Ludwig X, the ducal castle (1568–95), the Kranichstein hunting lodge, now a museum and game park; and the Russian Church (1898–99), commissioned by Tsar Nicholas II in honor of Tsarina Alexandra, a native of Darmstadt.

At the Mathildenhöhe, east of the city, is the artists’ colony, established 1899. The "Darmstädter Gespräche", a seminar devoted to intellectual issues and combined with art exhibits, is an annual event. Darmstadt is a highly diversified industrial centre. Its principal manufactures are chemicals, machinery, radios, and kitchen ranges. The city is surrounded by the densely wooded recreational areas of Odenwald and Bergstrasse, Taunus and Spessart and is located 20 miles south of Frankfurt and 40 miles north of Heidelberg.

Departments

• Business Administration, Economics and Law
• Social Sciences and History
• Human Sciences
• Mathematics
• Physics
• Applied Mechanics
• Chemistry
• Biology
• Material- and Geo-Sciences
• Civil Engineering and Geodesy
• Architecture
• Mechanical Engineering
• Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
• Computer Science

Prominent teachers

• Erasmus Kittler(1852-1929), set up the very first department of electrical engineering at a German technical university
  
• Eugen Kogon(1903-1987), political scientist and author of the book “The SS State”, spent some time in prisons of the Gestapo and Buchenwald concentration camp, professor of political science
  
• Michael Evenari(1904-1989), dismissed from Darmstadt University in 1933, became professor of botany at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, investigated the ancient system of “run-off“-agriculture under desert conditions
  
• Karl Schlechta(1904-1985), edited the first edition of the works of Friedrich Nietzsche free of forgeries, professor of philosophy
  

• El Lissitzky(1890-1941), architect, photographer, painter, typographer,
  and exhibition designer, most important intermediary between the Soviet constructivism
  and the West European avant-garde of the twenties, studied architecture
  in Darmstadt from 1909 to 1914
  

Statistics (2009)

• Year of foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . 1877
• Number of students . . . . . . . . . . . 20,252
• Foreign students . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3,566
• Professors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    269

Technische Universität Darmstadt

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D-64284 Darmstadt
Phone: +49 (0)6151 / 16 68 51
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