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thumb|The [[Welfenschloss palace, the main building of Leibniz University Hannover; designed by Christian Heinrich Tramm]]

Leibniz University Hannover (), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational School, the university has undergone six periods of renaming, its most recent in 2006.

Leibniz University Hannover is a member of TU9, an association of the nine leading Institutes of Technology in Germany. It is also a member of the Conference of European Schools for Advanced Engineering Education and Research, a non-profit association of leading engineering universities in Europe. The university sponsors the German National Library of Science and Technology, the largest science and technology library in the world.

History

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The roots of the university begin in the Higher Vocational College/Polytechnic Institute (), founded on 2 May 1831. In 1899 Kaiser Wilhelm II granted the College of Technology a status equal to that of universities and the right to confer doctorates. The college was reconstructed in 1921 with the financial support of the College Patrons' Association. As of 1 July 1922, there were three faculties: Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering.

Faculties and staff

Nine faculties with more than 190 first-degree full-time and part-time degree courses make the university the second-largest institution of higher education in Lower Saxony. The university staff comprises 3438 research and teaching staff, of whom 357 are professors. It has 1838 additional employees in administrative functions, 58 apprentices and some 1900 staff funded by third parties.

  • Faculty of Architecture and Landscape Sciences
  • Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geodetic Science
  • Faculty of Economics and Management
  • Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Faculty of Law
  • Faculty of Mathematics and Physics
  • Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
  • Faculty of Natural Sciences
  • QUEST Leibniz Research School
  • Leibniz School of Education
  • Leibniz School of Optics and Photonics The university also houses the Einstein-Elevator, a zero gravity research facility.

Budget

The university's overall budget was approximately in 2013, broken down as follows:

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As per the QS World 2024, the university is placed 481st globally and holds the 30th position nationally.

Leibniz University Hannover ranked 34th place worldwide in the THE Impact Rankings 2023SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) and between 101–200 in the SDG 7 (Affordable and Clean Energy) rankings.

University library and TIB

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The library was established on the founding of the in 1831. It expanded into an important collection as the institution evolved from a vocational/technical college into the full university. The removal of the books into storage during the Second World War secured valuable old stocks that became a unique national collection of scientific and technical literature in postwar Germany. This was the basis on which the library of the Institute of Technology () was established in 1959. Today the collection forms the heart of the German National Library of Science and Technology, which is the largest institution of its kind in the world.

  • Oskar Negt (1934–2024), social philosopher
  • Werner Osenberg (1900–1974), materials scientist
  • Eduard Pestel (1914–1988), engineer and politician
  • Ludwig Prandtl (1875–1953), physicist and engineer in fluid- and aerodynamics, professor.
  • Markus Raffel (born 1962), engineer in fluid- and aerodynamics, professor.
  • Friedrich Schwerd (1872–1953), professor for machinery and operations research, inventor of the WW I. German army Stahlhelm
  • Fritz Sennheiser, (1912–2010), electronics engineer, entrepreneur: Honorary professorship.
  • Klaus Töpfer (1938–2024), German politician (Christian Democratic Union)

Alumni

  • Carl F. W. Borgward (1890–1963), entrepreneur, car manufacturer, engineer, non-graduate guest auditor.
  • Walter Bruch (1908–1990), electronics and television engineer, honorary doctorate.
  • Alfred Bucherer (1863–1927), physicist
  • Wilhelm Busch (1832–1908), poet and artist
  • Rento Hofstede Crull (1863–1938), electrical pioneer
  • Gustav Doetsch (1892–1977), German mathematician gained his Habilitation here
  • Luise Druke (born 1948), German scholar and United Nations practitioner
  • Irmgard Flügge-Lotz (1903–1974), German-American mathematician and engineer
  • Henrich Focke (1890–1979), German aviation pioneer
  • Erich Gutenberg (1897–1984), German economist.
  • Maximilian Emil Hehl (1861–1916), German Architect who emigrated to Brazil and designed the Neo-Gothic São Paulo Cathedral
  • Pascual Jordan (1902–1980), theoretical and mathematical physicist, politician (CDU)
  • Wolfgang Jüttner (born 1948), German politician (SPD)
  • Carola Lentz (born 1954), German social anthropologist
  • David McAllister (born 1971), German politician (CDU)
  • Christian Otto Mohr (1835–1918), civil and structural engineer
  • Carl Adam Petri (1926–2010), mathematician, logician and computer scientist
  • Frank Pohlmann (born 1959), American politician and businessman
  • Reinhold Rudenberg (1883–1961), Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Harvard Graduate School of Engineering, inventor of i.e. carrier current communications
  • B.Sebastian Reiche (born 1973), social scientist and professor at IESE Business School.

Panorama

See also

  • Welfenschloss Stables
  • German National Library of Science and Technology
  • List of universities in Germany
  • List of colleges and universities

Notes

References

  • Leibniz Alliance Hannover (LEAH)