Tongji University

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Tongji University (Chinese同济大学/同济大学, Pinyin Tongji Daxue ) is a university in the People's Republic of China. The focal University, she is subordinate to the Chinese Ministry of Education directly and is one of the 33 universities that will be built to world-renowned universities after the state educational program " 985 ".

History of establishment

The forerunner of Tongji University was the " German School of Medicine for Chinese in Shanghai ". It was founded in 1907 by the German government as the first big project of foreign cultural policy. For this, in particular the German Consul General in Shanghai, William Squire, and the Assistant Secretary in the Prussian Ministry of Culture, Friedrich Althoff dedicated. They worked there together with the German doctors Erich Paulun, Academy of scraping and Paul Krieg, the one built on the initiative Pauluns hospital for Chinese, the Tung Chee Hospital ( Tongji Hospital) operated in Shanghai. This was in October 1909 as a teaching hospital, but was performed independently of the medical school. 1912 joined the German Government of the medical school at the " German engineering school for Chinese in Shanghai " with a training workshop. She was supported to a much greater extent than during the medical school of German companies that were interested in the Chinese market, including Krupp, Thyssen, Siemens, Bayer, BASF and German bank there. A language school prepared the Chinese students for the German-language studies. 1917 was closed " German medicine and engineering school for Chinese in Shanghai" by the French colonial power. However, it was provisionally continued with Chinese assistance in other buildings and, after the Chinese government had recognized in 1923 as a university, opened in 1924 as Chinese Tongji University again. Their technical equipment donated again the German industry and German lecturers from other members continue their lessons in German. This lays the foundations for a German -Chinese cooperation at that time were created, which is today kept at Tongji University. For this, a Chinese-German School for Postgraduate Studies was established in 1998 to set a prime example of knowledge exchange between China and Germany.

University

The total number of training and Fortzubildenden is approximately 54,000. It should 22,000 Bachelor, Master 11,000 and 3,000 doctors are. At the University of over 4,800 faculty and research staff are currently working, including 2,400 ordinary or associate professors. Of them go 300 doctoral supervisors and 13 members respectively of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academy of Engineering Sciences forth.

As one of the most important research centers in the country Tongji University also has 15 state research institutions with focus laboratories on national, provincial and ministerial level as well as research institutes of Engineering. In addition to the University four hospitals and three middle schools are affiliated.

The former rector of Tongji University Wan Gang was appointed on April 27, 2007 Science Minister of the People's Republic of China.

Summer Academies

Tongji University offers ( sometimes with partner universities ) various summer academies to:

  • Under the title of Shanghai -Hessen International Summer Courses presented from 3 to September 28, 2007 Hessian universities and professors of Tongji University together a compact program on the issues of development & architecture and business before.
  • Since 1979, a partnership between the Ruhr- University Bochum and Tongji University, concluded in the framework of which a 2002 agreement for a summer school program. Here the student is made possible following the second semester in an intensive eight-week language course.
  • Additional summer academies are offered, for example, in collaboration with the Technical Universities of Darmstadt and Berlin.

President

  • Erich Paulun (埃里希.宝隆) ( 1907-1909 )
  • Oscar von Schab (福沙伯) ( 1909-1917 )
  • Bernhard Berrens (贝伦 子) ( 1912-1919 & 1921-1927 )
  • Shen Engfu (沈 恩 孚) ( 1917-1923 ) ( executive)
  • Yuan Xitao (袁希涛) ( 1923-1927 ) ( executive)
  • Ruan Shangjie (阮 尚 介) ( 1917-1927 )
  • Zhang Zhongsu (张仲 苏) ( 1927-1929 )
  • Zhang Qun (张群) ( March 1929 - June 1929 )
  • Hu Shuhua (胡 庶 华) ( 1929-1932 )
  • Weng Zhilong (翁 之 龙) ( 1932-1939 )
  • Zhao Shiqing (赵士卿) ( 1939-1940 )
  • Junshi Zhou (周 均 时) ( 1940-1942 )
  • Ding Wenyuan (丁文渊) ( 1942-1944 )
  • Songming Xu (徐 诵 明) ( 1944-1946 )
  • Dong Xifan (董 洗 凡) ( 1946-1947 )
  • Ding Wenyuan (丁文渊) ( 1947-1948 )
  • Jianbai Xia (夏 坚 白) ( 1948-1952 )
  • Xue Shangshi (薛 尚 实) ( January 1953 - July 1959 )
  • Wang Tao (王涛) ( 1959-1977 )
  • Li Guohao (李国豪) ( October 1977 - April 1984)
  • Jiang Jingbo (江景波) ( April 1984 - February 1989)
  • Gao Tingyao (高 廷 耀) ( February 1989 - February 1995)
  • Wu Qidi (吴启迪) ( February 1995 - July 2003)
  • Wan Gang (万 钢) (July 2003 - August 2007)
  • Pei Gang (裴 钢) (since August 2007)

Professors (selection)

  • Anton John Waldeyer, 1931-1935 Professor of Anatomy
  • Eugen Flegler, 1936-1938 Professor of Electrical Engineering
  • Luigi Colani, April 1995 Visiting Professor in the College of Architecture and Urban Planning
  • Xiao Hui Wang (王小慧), since November 2001 Professor of Photography
  • Zhu Jianhua (朱建华), since 1993 Professor of German Studies

Former students ( selection)

  • Qiao Shi (乔石) (* 1924), Chinese communist politician, former chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress
  • Qiu Fazu (裘 法 祖) ( 1914-2008 ), Chinese surgeon and savior of Jewish prisoners
  • Wan Gang (万 钢) ( born 1952 ), Minister of Science and Technology of the People 's Republic of China, automotive engineer, former President of Tongji University
  • Wu Qidi (吴启迪) ( born 1947 ), Chinese scholar, Deputy Minister of Education of the People's Republic of China, former President of Tongji University
  • Wu Xiangming (* 1938), responsible for the world's first commercial implementation of the Transrapid technology
  • Xiao Hui Wang (王小慧) ( born 1957 ), Chinese photographer and author

Honorary title

Tongji University has awarded from 1984 to 2010 at least six honorary doctorates and honorary professorships 87, half of the tributes to German nationals.

Honorary Doctors

  • Tung- Yen Lin, American architect
  • IM Pei, American architect
  • December 30, 2002: Gerhard Schröder, German politician and former Chancellor
  • November 1, 2004: Heinrich von Pierer, German Manager
  • May 8, 2007: Christian Wulff, German politician and the former Federal President
  • 2 June 2010: Annette Schavan, German politician and former Federal Minister for Education and Research

Honorary Professors (Selection)

  • Michael Abramovici, Ruhr- University Bochum
  • Klaus Buchenrieder, electrical engineers and computer scientists at the University of the Federal Armed Forces Munich
  • Helmut Kohl, politician and Chancellor A.D.
  • Wolfgang Maßberg, mechanical engineers and Former Rector of the Ruhr- University Bochum
  • Hermann Scheer, German politician and Member of the Board of the SPD
  • Horst Sund, biochemists and Former Rector of the University of Konstanz
  • Klaus Töpfer politician and Federal Minister A.D.
  • Martin Winterkorn, CEO of Volkswagen AG ( 2007)
  • Arnold van Zyl, South African engineer and university professor; Rector of the TU Chemnitz
  • Peter Löscher, CEO of Siemens AG
  • Lutz Bertling, CEO of Eurocopter Group ( 2010)
  • Fliegner Eberhard, Prof. Dr. Ing German engineer for construction, specialist for bridges and tunnels (1937 )

Advisory professors (selection)

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