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… today‘s Rectorate Building

was inaugurated in 1926 as the Dresden Erato Singers‘
Association‘s own fraternity house? Even today, original tiles
inside the building, with colorful student motifs, are a
reminder of this origin. There also is a sandstone coat of
arms, with an Erato compass on the west side, visible from
the canteen.

… TU Dresden‘s art collection
… Johanna Weinmeister
also includes 350,000 herbarium specimens, i.e. dried and
pressed plants? The Herbarium Dresdense is registered in was the first female alumna of the TH Dresden? Women
the Index Herbariorum, the international directory of the were officially allowed to complete a full degree at the THD
world’s herbaria, and actively loans specimens from from 1907. Johanna Weinmeister studied to become a
scientific institutions all over the world. teacher and successfully passed the state examination for
the higher education authority in 1913.

… Friedrich Siemens

was awarded the first honorary doctorate of the Technical
University of Dresden in 1900 „for his immortal merits,
which he earned through the inventions of the regenerative
furnace for generating high temperatures, the tank furnace
for melting glass, the regenerative burner for producing
highly luminous flames and the chemical regeneration of
the heat of the flame gases of highly heated furnaces“?

… six professors

were rectors at the
university several times?
Cornelius Gurlitt (pictured
left), Adolph Nägel, Walther
Hempel, Martin Krause, … the Technische Bildungsanstalt,
Ernst von Meyer and
Richard Mollier were was the predecessor institution of TU Dresden, had its first
rectors of TU Dresden twice domicile in a garden pavilion on Brühl‘s Terrace in 1828? It
– at a time when rectors was not until 1833 that it moved to the former armory at
were still elected annually. Jüdenhof, due to lack of space.

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