Freiberg University of Mining and Technology

The Technical University of Freiberg is a university in the central city of Freiberg, the university as a resource focuses on a comprehensive commodity hedging. The profile is characterized by the fields Geo, materials, energy and the environment.

History

The Freiberg was in 1765, in the Age of Enlightenment, by Prince Xavier of Saxony, according to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm von Oppel ( 1720-1767 ) and Friedrich Anton von Heynitz under the name Electoral Saxon Mining Academy Freiberg ( 1806: Royal Saxon Mining Academy Freiberg ) was founded as a training center for miners. This foundation was necessary because of Saxony had to force the industry after its defeat in the Seven Years' War, in order to make her reparation can.

The Mountain Academy is the oldest still existing montane science education facility in the world, since the four academies founded before her in Potosí (Bolivia, 1557-1786 ), Kongsberg (Norway, 1757-1814 ), Banská Štiavnica ( 1762-1919 ) and Prague (1762 -1772 ) has long ceased to exist. After established in 1747 École des Ponts et Chaussées it is the oldest technical educational institution worldwide.

At the mountain academy two chemical elements were discovered by scientists Freiberger: Indium (1863 by Ferdinand Reich and Theodor Richter ) and germanium ( 1886 by Clemens Winkler ).

Until the founding of the Technical University of Dresden in 1871, the Mining Academy Freiberg was the highest technical educational institution of the Kingdom of Saxony. The Mountain Academy was founded in 1899 equated with a technical university, received doctoral degrees in 1905 for the degree of Dr. -Ing. and 1939 for a Dr. rer. nat. In 1940, two schools were established: for the natural sciences and supplementary subjects as well as for mining and metallurgy. 1956, the Faculty of Engineering Economics to do so. In 1949, the Workers 'and Peasants' Faculty " Wilhelm Pieck " was established. In the field of process engineering ( brown coal gasification) were Erich bucks and Georg Bilkenroth honored for their work on the Braunkohlenhochtemperaturkoks 1951 with the National Prize of the GDR first class.

Modern Times from 1989

In the wake of German reunification, the building as legal infrastructure of the academy has been redesigned to a large extent. In recent times the TU Freiberg also developed expertise in the field of semiconductor research, which led to the fact that companies in the semiconductor industry ( Siltronic AG, German Solar - a subsidiary of SolarWorld AG) settled in Freiberg. In addition to geo-and material sciences TUBAF always developed more highly regarded in the field of environmental sciences. Freiberg has established itself as a " university of the closed material cycles " in the global research landscape as a modern, ecological university.

Since 2003, donated by the TUBAF of the Association practice partner of the local Interdisciplinary Ecological Centre ( IÖZ ) Hans -Carl -von- Carlowitz Prize is awarded for outstanding achievements in the field of environmental research at the Technical University of Freiberg. With the price should experience an appreciation of outstanding works of students and young scientists, but also the work of Hans Carl von Carlowitz.

The geosciences are International today named TU Freiberg connected. Since German reunification, the university in the international university landscape positioned as the " resource - University " with the four pillars of Geo, materials, energy and the environment.

Since October 2008, the Technical University of Freiberg in Freudenstein Castle from the world's largest private collection of minerals. The permanent exhibition terra mineralia is a permanent loan from the Swiss Erika Pohl- Ströher.

Special programs are industrial archeology (offered in Germany exclusively in Freiberg ), International Management of Resources and Environment ( IMRE, English-language Master 's degree program ) and International Business in Developing & Emerging Markets ( IBDEM, English-language Master 's degree program ).

Foundations

With the Dr. Erich Krüger Foundation TU Freiberg was the largest with a nine-figure sum endowment of a state university in Germany in December 2006. The University will use the flowing out of the entrusted property assets of the Munich -born entrepreneur and Freiberger's Peter Kruger resources for the provisioning of research with large-scale equipment and the promotion of doctoral students. On 13 July 2007, died Kruger, who had just been appointed Honorary Senator of the Mining Academy in Munich.

In early 2007 an endowment fund of the photovoltaic company Solar World AG for the Freiberg was established. Funded with a six-figure sum Foundation will be available for the department of chemistry and physics available.

Organization

There are a total of six faculties:

In autumn 1996, an additional " Interdisciplinary Ecological Centre ( IÖZ )" was established.

In the winter semester 2010/11, 5458 students were enrolled at the TU Mining Academy, of which 32.4 % were women, 8% from overseas, 63 % from Saxony and 17% from the old federal states. It offered five graduate degree programs, 20 bachelor's degree programs with advanced Master programs and three English-language Master's programs. The Mountain Academy is distinguished by a high degree of practical orientation and numerous collaborations with the private sector. This is reflected in relatively high external funding down (2010: EUR 46.1 million and EUR 548,000 average per professor ).

The University is co-founder of the university, founded in 1993 the International University Institute Zittau ( IHI ) and the founder network SAXEED.

Facilities

The TU Mining Academy is a campus university. The largest part of the site of the Technical University Mining Academy is located on campus in the north of Freiberg. In addition, there are other properties in the urban area, such as the main building of the Academy Street, the media center in the investigator's street, the Old Refectory on Peter Street, the Werner - construction in the Brennhausgasse (Institute of Mineralogy, as well as mineralogical and lagerstättenkundliche collections) the building Lessingstraße 45 ( economics, language center ) and several buildings on the heap of teaching mine Reiche Zeche.

The University operates the teaching and research mine " Reiche Zeche " and " Old Elizabeth ," in which the mining history of Freiberg is presented and scientific education and research take place.

From the Institute of Geophysics of the University of Freiberg, the Seismological Observatory Berggießhübel is operated.

Udo Hebisch, director of the Institute for Discrete Mathematics and Algebra, operates a virtual museum on the subject "Mathematics and Art".

Using the Helmholtz -Zentrum Dresden -Rossendorf, TU Freiberg founded 2011, the joint Helmholtz Institute Freiberg for Resource Technology to develop technologies of raw material supply, utilization and environmentally friendly recycling.

Affiliated institutes of the University

The TU Freiberg features affiliated institutes:

• IBEXU Institute for Security GmbH Freiberg
• Research Institute of Leather and Plastic Sheeting ( FILK ) gGmbH Freiberg
• Steel center Freiberg eV
• Institute for Corrosion Protection Dresden
• UVR - FIA GmbH Process Development - Environmental Engineering Recycling Freiberg
• DBI - Gas Technological Institute GmbH Freiberg
• HAVER ENGINEERING GmbH - Engineering Office for processing technology, Meissen

International Cooperation

The TU Freiberg currently maintains 42 global contacts to universities and colleges. Here is a selection of well-known mining universities and mining academies:

Personalities

• See: List of personalities from the Technical University of Freiberg