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

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