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University and Campus

… that TU Dresden … the GFF was founded on
was even immortalized on the December 7, 1921 as the Ge-
Dresden Procession of Princes? sellschaft von Förderern und
The third person in the final Freunden der Technischen Hoch-
group – following a pupil from the schule e.V.? At its founding meeting,
Dresden Kreuzschule and a student the GFF already had 450 members,
from Leipzig University – is a including industrialists and bankers.
student from TH Dresden waving Deleted from the register of
a flag. associations in 1949 by decree of
the state government, it was
re-established in 1991 as the
… the post office Gesellschaft von Freunden und
Förderern der Technischen
of TU Dresden has its own Universität Dresden e.V. (Society of
postcode, 01062? Friends and Supporters of the TUD
As a result, postcards and letters to Dresden University of Technology).
your alma mater can be sent
without the street name. However,
for parcels, express and courier
deliveries, the usual address rules
apply.

… with Max Foerster
and Fritz Foerster

two brothers were rectors of the
university, each one once? Max
Foerster presided over the THD in
1913/1914, while Fritz Foerster,
who was one year older, headed
the university in 1917/1918. … there is a memo-
rial for professors

of the TH Dresden at the Alter
… a particular Annenfriedhof? During the bombing
of Dresden in February 1945, many
curiosity of university history of the cemetery's gravestones were
can be visited? Engineer Walther … today's Rectorate destroyed, including those of
Pauer was taken prisoner of war in professors who had taught at the
France during the First World War Building was inaugurated in TH Dresden before 1945. From
and was forced to write his doctoral 1926 as the Dresden Erato Singers' 1979 to 1983, TUD remodeled the
thesis in shorthand on a toilet roll. Association's own fraternity house? ruined family grave site of Hermann
A replica of the so-called “Pauer Even today, original tiles inside the Hettner, professor of art history at
Roll” has been hanging in the building, with colorful student the TH, into a memorial for eight
Center for Energy Technology since motifs, are a reminder of this origin. other professors whose graves had
2021, while the original has been There also is a sandstone coat of been destroyed. The memorial was
part of the Custody's University arms, with an Erato compass on the designed by TUD graduate, Jürgen
History Collection since 2015. west side, visible from the canteen. Schieferdecker.

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