Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz University Hannover (german: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public

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located in

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, 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

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, 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 CESAER is a non-profit association of universities of science and technology in Europe. CESAER was founded on 10 May 1990, seated in the Castle of Arenberg in Leuven, Belgium. The association has 58 universities of science and technology in 26 ...

, a non-profit association of leading engineering universities in Europe. The university sponsors the

German National Library of Science and Technology The German National Library of Science and Technology (german: Technische Informationsbibliothek), abbreviated TIB, is the national library of the Federal Republic of Germany for all fields of engineering, technology, and the natural sciences. ...

, the largest science and technology library in the world.Profile of the TIB at Leibniz University Hannove
online
(English) retrieved 26 May 2012

History

The roots of the university begin in the Higher Vocational College/Polytechnic Institute (), founded on 2 May 1831. In 1879 the Higher Vocational School moved into the historic

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Palace (), which was specially converted for the purpose. On 1 April 1879, the Higher Vocational School became the Royal College of Technology (). 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. In 1968 the Faculty of Humanities and Political Science were founded and the ('Technical College' or 'Technical University') became the ('Technical University Hannover'). Between 1973 and 1980 the faculties of Law, Business and Economics, and the formerly independent Teachers Training College were added to the university and in 1978 the was renamed ('University of Hannover'). Student numbers exceeded 30,000 for the first time in 1991. On the 175th anniversary of the institution in 2006, the 'University of Hannover' was given the name , or for short. While 64 students first attended the Vocational School, today the university has around 25.700 students, more than 2.900 academics and scientists, and 160 departments and institutes.uni-hannover.de
Die Leibniz Universität Hannover in Stichworten
; retrieved, 18 December 2014

Namesake

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Bernhard Christoph Francke

The Senate of the university voted in April 2006 to rename the University of Hannover to "Leibniz Universität Hannover". Following agreement by the Leibniz Academy on the use of the name, the "Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover" received its name on the 360th anniversary of

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's birth. The brand of the university is "Leibniz Universität Hannover". The old logo of the university was inspired by the

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. The current logo, adopted in 2008, is a stylised excerpt from a letter to Duke Rudolf August of Wolfenbüttel, in which Leibniz presented

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for the first time.

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

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. The university staff comprises 2930 research and teaching staff, of whom 321 are professors. It has 1810 additional employees in administrative functions, 90 apprentices and some 1400 staff funded by third parties. * Faculty of

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...

and Landscape Sciences * Faculty of

Civil Engineering Civil engineering is a professional engineering discipline that deals with the design, construction, and maintenance of the physical and naturally built environment, including public works such as roads, bridges, canals, dams, airports, sewa ...

and

Geodetic Science Geodesy ( ) is the Earth science of accurately measuring and understanding Earth's figure (geometric shape and size), orientation in space, and gravity. The field also incorporates studies of how these properties change over time and equival ...

* Faculty of

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and interactions of economic agents and how economies work. Microeconomics anal ...

and

Management Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business. Management includes the activitie ...

* Faculty of

Electrical Engineering Electrical engineering is an engineering discipline concerned with the study, design, and application of equipment, devices, and systems which use electricity, electronics, and electromagnetism. It emerged as an identifiable occupation in the l ...

and

Computer Science Computer science is the study of computation, automation, and information. Computer science spans theoretical disciplines (such as algorithms, theory of computation, information theory, and automation) to Applied science, practical discipli ...

* Faculty of

Humanities Humanities are academic disciplines that study aspects of human society and culture. In the Renaissance, the term contrasted with divinity and referred to what is now called classics, the main area of secular study in universities at t ...

* Faculty of

Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

* Faculty of

Mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and

Physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which ...

* Faculty of

Mechanical Engineering Mechanical engineering is the study of physical machines that may involve force and movement. It is an engineering branch that combines engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science, to design, analyze, manufacture, ...

* Faculty of

Natural Sciences Natural science is one of the branches of science concerned with the description, understanding and prediction of natural phenomena, based on empirical evidence from observation and experimentation. Mechanisms such as peer review and repeat ...

* QUEST Leibniz Research School * Leibniz School of Education

Facilities

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The campus of the university is spread over 160 buildings occupying of floor space.

Budget

The university's overall budget was approximately 441.8 million euros in 2013, broken down as follows: * Income of 222.6 million according to the annual report * External funding amounting to 101.8 million euros * Special funds from the State of

amounting to 58.3 million euros * 42.3 million euros from other income * 16.8 million euros from student contributions

Rankings

Measured by the number of top managers in the German economy, Leibniz University Hannover ranked 7th in 2019. The

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2022 ranked Leibniz University Hannover between 401 and 500 worldwide.

University library and TIB

German National Library of Science and Technology TIB university library Hannover UB Am Welfengarten 1b Nordstadt Hannover Germany 04

The library was established on the founding of the ''Höhere Gewerbeschule/Polytechnische Schule'' 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 (german: Technische Informationsbibliothek) was established in 1959. Today the collection forms the heart of the

, which is the largest institution of its kind in the world.

GISMA School of Business

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in Hannover, Germany, was launched in 1999 as a joint initiative by the state of Lower Saxony and visionary private-sector enterprises. The school was closely affiliated with the

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at Purdue University (Indiana, USA) until 2011 when the Leibniz University Hannover briefly became its parent. In 2013 the association with Leibniz ended, and GISMA became part the for-profit education company

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Notable people

Faculty

* Friedrich Bergius (1884–1949), chemist,

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(1931) *

Constantin Carathéodory Constantin Carathéodory ( el, Κωνσταντίνος Καραθεοδωρή, Konstantinos Karatheodori; 13 September 1873 – 2 February 1950) was a Greek mathematician who spent most of his professional career in Germany. He made significant ...

(1873–1950), mathematician, professor *

Horst Dreier Horst Dreier (born 7 September 1954) is a German jurist and legal philosopher. He currently holds a chair at the University of Würzburg. In 2008 he was the initial candidate to replace Winfried Hassemer at the Federal Constitutional Court of Ger ...

(born 1954), lawyer * Gerhard Ertl (born 1936), physicist and chemist,

(2007) * J. Hans D. Jensen (1907–1973), German physicist,

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(1963) * Wilhelm Jordan, (1842–1899), professor of geodesy and practical geometry, known for the Gauss-Jordan Elimination * Karl Karmarsch (1803–1879), engineer, educationalist *

Theodor Lessing Karl Theodor Richard Lessing (8 February 1872, Hanover – 31 August 1933, Marienbad) was a German Jewish philosopher. He is known for opposing the rise of Hindenburg as president of the Weimar Republic and for his classic on Jewish self-hatr ...

(1872–1933), philosopher *

Herbert Lindinger Herbert Lindinger (born 3 December 1933 in Wels) is an Austrian graphic artist, exhibition designer, industrial designer, and university professor. He is known for designing trains and trams such as the S-DT8.12 Stuttgart light rail cars, and the ...

(born 1933), industrial designer *

Konrad Meyer Konrad Meyer-Hetling (15 May 1901 – 25 April 1973) was a German agronomist and SS-Oberführer. He is best known for his involvement in the development of ''Generalplan Ost''. Early life Meyer was born in Salzderhelden, near Einbeck, in southe ...

(1901–1973), SS-Oberführer and an architect of

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for the Germanization of Eastern Europe. Later served as a professor of agriculture and regional planning at the University of Hanover The Nuremberg Medical Trial 1946/47 – Guide to the Microfiche Edition: With an Introduction to the Trial's History by Angelika Ebbinghaus and Short Biographies of the Participants, 2001, Walter de Gruyter, , p. 119 *

Oskar Negt Oskar Reinhard Negt (; born 1 August 1934 in Kapkeim, East Prussia) is a philosopher and critical social theorist. He is an emeritus professor of sociology at Leibniz University Hannover, and one of Germany's most prominent social scientists. Li ...

(born 1934), social philosopher * Eduard Pestel (1914–1988), engineer and politician *

Ludwig Prandtl Ludwig Prandtl (4 February 1875 – 15 August 1953) was a German fluid dynamicist, physicist and aerospace scientist. He was a pioneer in the development of rigorous systematic mathematical analyses which he used for underlying the science of ...

(1875–1953), physicist and 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 Fritz Sennheiser (9 May 1912 – 17 May 2010) was a German inventor and entrepreneur who founded and served as chairman of Sennheiser Electronic, a manufacturer of audio equipment. Biography Early life and education Born in Berlin on 9 ...

, (1912–2010), electronics engineer, entrepreneur: Honorary professorship. *

Klaus Töpfer Klaus Töpfer (born 29 July 1938) is a German politician ( CDU) and environmental politics expert. From 1998 to 2006 he was executive director of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Early life and education Töpfer was born in ...

(born 1938), German politician ( Christian Democratic Union)

Alumni

Carl F. W. Borgward Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Borgward (November 10, 1890 in Altona, Hamburg – July 28, 1963 in Bremen) was a German engineer and designer and the creator of the Borgward group, based in Bremen. Biography He was of modest origin, the son of coal ...

(1890–1963), entrepreneur, car manufacturer, engineer, non-graduate guest auditor.http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/print/d-43067968.html "Der Bastler", Der Spiegel 51/1960 *

Walter Bruch Walter Bruch (2 March 1908 – 5 May 1990) was a German electrical engineer and pioneer of German television. He was the inventor of Closed-circuit television. He invented the PAL colour television system at Telefunken in the early 1960s. In add ...

(1908–1990), electronics and television engineer, honorary doctorate. *

Alfred Bucherer Alfred Heinrich Bucherer (* 9 July 1863 in Cologne; † 16 April 1927 in Bonn) was a German physicist, who is known for his experiments on relativistic mass. He also was the first who used the phrase " theory of relativity" for Einstein's theory ...

(1863–1927), physicist *

Wilhelm Busch Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Busch (14 April 1832 – 9 January 1908) was a German humorist, poet, illustrator, and painter. He published wildly innovative illustrated tales that remain influential to this day. Busch drew on the tropes of f ...

(1832–1908), poet and artist * Gustav Doetsch (1892–1977), German mathematician gained his

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here * Luise Druke (born 1948), German scholar and

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practitioner *

Irmgard Flügge-Lotz Irmgard Flügge-Lotz, née Lotz (16 July 1903 – 22 May 1974) was a German-American mathematician and aerospace engineer. She was a pioneer in the development of the theory of discontinuous automatic control, which has found wide application ...

(1903–1974), German-American mathematician and engineer * Henrich Focke (1890–1979), German aviation pioneer * Erich Gutenberg (1897–1984), German economist. * Rento Hofstede Crull (1863–1938), electrical pioneer *

Pascual Jordan Ernst Pascual Jordan (; 18 October 1902 – 31 July 1980) was a German theoretical and mathematical physicist who made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and quantum field theory. He contributed much to the mathematical form of matri ...

(1902–1980), theoretical and mathematical physicist, politician ( CDU) * Wolfgang Jüttner (born 1948), German politician ( SPD) * David McAllister (born 1971), German politician ( CDU) * Christian Otto Mohr (1835–1918), civil and structural engineer *

Carl Adam Petri Carl Adam Petri (12 July 1926 in Leipzig – 2 July 2010 in Siegburg) was a German mathematician and computer scientist. Life and work Petri created his major scientific contribution, the concept of the Petri net, in 1939 at the age of 13, for ...

(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

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Graduate School of Engineering, inventor of i.e. carrier current communications * Maximilian Emil Hehl (1861-1916), German Architect who migrates to Brazil and project

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Leibniz Alliance Hannover (LEAH)
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History

Namesake

Faculties and staff

Facilities

Budget

Rankings

University library and TIB

GISMA School of Business

Notable people

Faculty

Alumni

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