Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University

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The Baltic Federal Immanuel Kant University (Russian Балтийский федеральный университет имени Иммануила Канта ) is a university in the Russian city of Kaliningrad, formerly Königsberg ( Prussia). Since perestroika, she increasingly sees itself as a successor to the Albertus University of Königsberg, the operation had been discontinued in the Battle of Königsberg.

Until 2005 it was called Kaliningrad State University, then to 2012 - Immanuel Kant University Kaliningrad (Russian Российский государственный университет имени Иммануила Канта ). She has since become one of eight federal universities of Russia. In Moscow and St. Petersburg are the two national public universities in the country.

History

Creation time

After the Second World War, the northern part of East Prussia with Königsberg was placed under Soviet administration in 1945 and renamed the city in 1946 with the expulsion of the German population and resettlement of citizens from all parts of the former Soviet Union in Kaliningrad.

In the 1960s, was built on the foundations of war-stricken main building of the Albertina at the parade ground for the products derived from an educational college Kaliningrad State University, a new building, the main entrance is the former left side door in the surviving Liebenthal wing. At the University, a cut - Museum was established in 1974, is remembered in which not only to philosophers but also to other traditions of German Albertina. With the opening up of Russia in the 1990s, the traditions of the Albertina found increased interest locally. For example, since perestroika gladly resorted to the name Albertina, so www.albertina.ru at the temporary official Internet address.

Presence

On the occasion of the 450th anniversary of the University in August 1994, a German - Russian service in the restored Königsberg Cathedral and a multilingual ceremony in the University took place.

As part of the celebrations for the 750th anniversary of the city of Kaliningrad in July 2005, the university was renamed in the presence of Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder in Immanuel Kant University.

International Relations

Since the independence of Lithuania in September 1991 and shortly thereafter made ​​up of the Soviet Union which belongs to the Russian Federation, Kaliningrad no more spatial connection to the rest of the Russian territory. In political, economic and social terms arising from the EU membership of the immediate neighbors Poland and Lithuania new conditions for the Russian exclave and the University in international traffic. As part of the Alexander - heart program for German - Russian cooperation, the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD) has made ​​funds available to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Relations of the Friedrich -Schiller- University of Jena to the Immanuel Kant University Courses perform European and international studies. The political science project builds on traditional links between Jena and Königsberg. On Fichte, Hegel and Schelling, who founded the German idealism, with Kant, still remembered by monuments in Kaliningrad. The writings of Kant - especially Perpetual Peace (1795 ) - are teaching and learning material at both partner universities.