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62-763: Dresden University may refer to: TU Dresden (Technische Universität Dresden), Dresden, Germany, one of the 10 largest universities in Germany, founded 1828 Dresden International University , partner to Dresden University of Technology which serves Chinese and other international students, in Dresden, since 2003 Dresden University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Dresden), founded 1992, second largest post-secondary school in Dresden See also [ edit ] School of International Studies of

124-471: A 12-volume edition of Nietzsche's writings, which was also published by Alfred Kröner from 1930 onwards and is still available today (2009) in new editions. Baeumler wrote introductions or epilogues to the individual volumes of the edition, which continued to be printed in new editions after 1945. Martin Heidegger praised Baeumler's edition of Der Wille zur Macht as a "faithful reprint of Volumes XV and XVI of

186-460: A correct relationship between intelligence and character, a realistic theory of education would emerge. Therefore, it was of utmost importance to form character and intelligence. Racial thinking would not oppose a principle of unlimited likeness with the principle of limited likeness, but would first "discover" the true principle of likeness. The unity of character does not consist in its static, resting nature, but in its dynamically moving moments. It

248-737: A member of the NSDAP's Higher Education Commission. In 1934, Reichsleiter Rosenberg also appointed him "Head of the Office of Science of the Führer's Commissioner for the Supervision of Intellectual Training and Education of the NSDAP", and in 1941 he was promoted to Head of Service. Baeumler worked there primarily as Rosenberg's liaison to the universities and also edited the Internationale Zeitschrift für Erziehung and, from 1936,

310-593: A new research building for the biology department opened. In October 2006 the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft decided to fund a new graduate school, the Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering and a so-called cluster of excellence From Cells to Tissues to Therapies . The TU Dresden benefits from the strong research tradition in microelectronics and transport sciences in

372-599: A partnership with the Fraunhofer-Institut for Transport and Infrastructure systems to research on IT-systems for public transport in Dresden. In partnership with TU Dresden, the Ifo Institute of Economic Research ( Ifo Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung e.V. ) is researching the economic development in Eastern Germany. The university belongs to a consortium of European Universities offering

434-618: A spirit foreign to us has used the German word to fight us. [...] What we dismiss from ourselves today are poisons that have accumulated in the time of a false toleration." Later, the procession of torchbearers - but without Baeumler at the head - formed up to the Opernplatz . There, according to the Völkischer Beobachter , the "German spirit" was to be symbolically purified by burning 20,000 books. In 1934, Baeumler demanded

496-547: Is also quite popular among Central and East European countries such as the neighboring Czech Republic or Ukraine . Also, through the Erasmus programme and partnerships with universities in the USA, there are many English-, French- and Spanish-speaking students. The language spoken during lessons is nearly always German on most faculties. To prepare for admissions to the university, many foreign students attend German language courses at

558-604: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages TU Dresden TU Dresden (for German: Technische Universität Dresden , abbreviated as TUD ), also as the Dresden University of Technology , is a public research university in Dresden , Germany. It is the largest institute of higher education in the city of Dresden, the largest university in Saxony and one of

620-571: Is incorporated in this network with three departments of the faculties of Electrical Engineering and Sciences. Together with the Fraunhofer Center for Nano-electronic technologies (CNT), it represents one of the leading universities in the field of nanotechnology. There is also a research cooperation with some semiconductor fields of TU Freiberg . In May 2012 the Helmholtz-Kolleg NANONET was founded. The university has

682-426: Is indeed a philosophy and science of politics, but not a scientific politics and just as little a political science. Thought must answer to thought." Baeumler went on to explain: "In a word, it can be said here what National Socialism means intellectually: the replacement of the educated by the type of soldier." The "epoch of freedom of conscience, of individualism" was over. "They are now going out to burn books in which

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744-569: Is sufficient to mention the vocabulary used: "community life", "experience", "inner participation", "school camp", "readiness", "adoring heart", "miracles", "to talk would mean to break up", "air of educational life", etc. At the end of the 1920s, Baeumler began to present Friedrich Nietzsche as a philosopher of National Socialism. As an influential philosopher in Nazi Germany , Baeumler used Friedrich Nietzsche 's philosophy to legitimize Nazism . Thomas Mann read Baeumler's work on Nietzsche in

806-514: Is that any renewal for Germany, and indeed the West in general, would require a recovery of the values which permeated Ancient Hellas. As with much of his work, Baeumler made use of Nietzsche's legacy to lend force to the thesis of the article. Baeumler summarised his thesis thus: "We are certain that only a system of values essentially similar to the Hellenic system will be able to pull Europe out of

868-404: Is the unity of direction. Education follows on from this unity; this unity can never be produced through intellect and environment. The task of education arises from the relatively undetermined direction of unity. Only through the formative effect of others does the soul attain itself. At the end of education is the clearly defined form of the "type", which can only be achieved through education by

930-601: The Erasmus-Initiative TU Dresden offers many group activities throughout the semester which are open to all students (not only to Erasmus participants). A student-run program, the LinkPartnerProgramm matches every interested international student with a German student, to help him or her with questions arising during the first weeks, be it regarding course registration or any other issue students might have. Sports are very popular among

992-814: The Fraunhofer Society , the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community and the Max Planck Society and Forschungszentrum Dresden-Rossendorf , soon incorporated into the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres , published a joint letter of intent with the name DRESDEN-Konzept – Dresden Research and Education Synergies for the Development of Excellence and Novelty, which points out worldwide elite aspirations, which

1054-796: The Technical University of Dresden , habilitated there and became associate professor in 1928 and full professor in 1929. In 1933, he was appointed by the National Socialist Prussian Minister of Culture Bernhard Rust to a newly established chair of philosophy and political pedagogy at Berlin University, without the faculty's involvement, and at the same time director of the newly founded Institute for Political Pedagogy. "Poor Berlin faculty: Baeumler their philosopher, Neubert their Romanist," Victor Klemperer commented. Alongside Ernst Niekisch , with whom he

1116-488: The "Dictionary of Compassionate Love" would not be available to the National Socialists. He interprets the word "new", claiming content that never existed in this simple explanation. For him, Pestalozzi and Herbart are classical models that were only surpassed by the "new age". The role of the teacher should be "set in motion" from the political. Pedagogy could not take on this role. For him, historical epochs of

1178-413: The "political soldier" as a student ideal, the establishment of "men's houses" and the exclusion of the "feminine-democratic". Martin Heidegger criticised what he perceived as a lack of depth in both Baeumler and Ernst Krieck, and that both wanted to realise the national pedagogical model of the "political soldier" through external training programmes and military training. Since July 1934, Baeumler had been

1240-409: The 10 largest universities in Germany with 32,389 students as of 2018 . The name Technische Universität Dresden has only been used since 1961; the history of the university, however, goes back nearly 200 years to 1828. This makes it one of the oldest colleges of technology in Germany, and one of the country's oldest universities, which in German today refers to institutes of higher education that cover

1302-663: The Cellular Basis of Regeneration" (now Center for Regenerative Therapies Dresden (CRTD)  [ de ] ), as well as a new graduate school, the " Dresden International Graduate School for Biomedicine and Bioengineering " with about 300 PhD students. The CRTD together with the Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) and the Center for Molecular Bioengineering (B CUBE) are part of the Center for Molecular and Cellular Bioengineering (CMCB) as central scientific unit of

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1364-472: The Complete Edition, with an intelligible afterword and a concise and good outline of Nietzsche's life story." Later, Baeumler's texts were successively replaced by texts by Walter Gebhard. Only the two volumes compiled by Baeumler under the title Die Unschuld des Werdens (The Innocence of Becoming) with materials from Nietzsche's estate are still in the original version from 1931 in the programme of

1426-667: The Dresden University of Technology Dresden Academy of Fine Arts [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about schools, colleges, or other educational institutions which are associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Dresden_University&oldid=848371011 " Category : Educational institution disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

1488-668: The Dresden area, but also from the establishment of new research fields such as Biotechnology. The university has established a strong partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in molecular bioengineering. As part of the German Universities Excellence Initiative , the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft has decided to fund the Cluster of Excellence "From Cells to Tissues to Therapies: Engineering

1550-630: The Dresden metro area and 5,335 (25.9%) from other parts of Saxony. The origin of the students is based on the location where the A-level exams have been completed. There are 3,442 international students enrolled at the TU Dresden (2005–2006). Most of the foreign students come from Europe (1,527), followed by Asia (1,404) and America (170). Ranked by countries the largest group of students comes from China (710), followed by Poland (294), Vietnam (196), Bulgaria (160) and Russia (154). The university

1612-595: The EU's Human Brain Project to build the second generation spinnaker computer called spincloud. TU Dresden is recognized in several university ranking systems. According to the QS World University Rankings for 2024, the university is ranked 246th globally and 16th nationally. The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2024 places the institution at 161st globally and 16th within

1674-534: The Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctoral Programme IT4BI-DC for Business Intelligence. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft supports the university in many areas and TU Dresden cooperates closely with renowned research institutes such as Fraunhofer Society , Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community and Max Planck Society . Neuromorphic computing facility TU Dresden received a grant of eight million euro from

1736-759: The Faculty of Medicine that has its own campus near the Elbe river East of the city center and the Department of Forestry in Tharandt . With 4,390 students the Faculty of Mathematics and the Natural Sciences is the second-largest faculty at the university. It is composed of five departments: Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Physics and Psychology. The departments are all located on the main campus. In 2006,

1798-512: The Nazi regime, the concepts of race and heredity have a preeminent meaning. Furthermore, he claims that the concept of "The Malleability of Man" had hitherto been misconceived. This proof, he says, is to be provided by racial thinking. He sees a problem in intellectualism. In his view, intellectualism assumes: From this intellectualistic assumption, the concept of "unrestricted malleability" would be derived. The science of education does not start from

1860-652: The Saxon Technical School was founded to educate skilled workers in technological subjects such as mechanics , mechanical engineering and ship construction. In 1871, the year the German Empire was founded, the institute was renamed the Royal Saxon Polytechnic Institute ( Königlich-Sächsisches Polytechnikum ). At that time, subjects not connected with technology, such as history and languages, were introduced. By

1922-628: The TU Dresden belongs to the most successful in Germany. In 2004 3,564 projects were financed with 104.1 million Euros from outside sources (other than state funds). It has one of the highest shares of income by industry partnerships. Alfred Baeumler After studying philosophy and art history in Berlin and Bonn, Baeumler received his doctorate in Munich in 1914 with a thesis on the problem of general validity in Kant's aesthetics. From 1924 he taught at

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1984-484: The TU Dresden. The Biotechnology Center (BIOTEC) is a unique interdisciplinary center focusing on research and teaching in molecular bioengineering . It hosts top international research groups dedicated to genomics , proteomics , biophysics , cellular machines , tissue engineering , and bioinformatics . The research at the CRTD and BIOTEC is complemented by that of the B CUBE which aims to learn from nature and translate

2046-484: The TUD students. There are eight big students' clubs and the summer campus party is considered to be the biggest in Germany. There are cafeterias as at most universities and the largest refectory can compete with some restaurants even as far as menu size. Among the many groups at the TU Dresden are four major ensembles. These four include the theater group Die Bühne which has a small ensemble directed by professionals, and

2108-561: The Un-German Spirit"), as part of his college "Wissenschaft, Hochschule, Staat" ("Science, University, State") in the crowded lecture hall 38 of Berlin University . Most of the students had turned up in SA uniforms. At the beginning of the lecture, a student flag delegation marched in with the swastika banner. The little-noticed key quote from this lecture was as follows: "Politics can only be made by those who are responsible for it. There

2170-623: The anarchy of values. The discovery of the Hellenic world means nothing less than the premonition of a new age, an age beyond Gothic and Enlightenment. For us, the Hellenic is not a value among others, not just something great next to the Roman, the Iranian or the Indian. Rather, our knowledge confirms the intuitive certainty of Winckelmann, Hölderlin and Nietzsche that our fate is decided in the face of Hellas." In this 1942 paper, Baeumler shows how, in

2232-532: The beginning of the 1930s, he had personal contact with Hitler and the "Nazi chief ideologist" Alfred Rosenberg . At the Reichstag elections of 1932, Baeumler openly declared his allegiance to the NSDAP along with other philosophers, but it was not until after the party had come to power that he applied for membership. On 10 May 1933, Baeumler gave his inaugural lecture, "Wider den undeutschen Geist" ("Against

2294-402: The chemistry building Fritz-Foerster-Bau ). In recent years these historic buildings have been complemented by modern buildings (e.g. the library, the main auditorium, the biochemistry department or the life sciences building). The main campus, as well as the medical faculty and that of computer science, are all within the boundaries of the city of Dresden. The main campus is located south of

2356-552: The city center, mostly in the area bordered by Nöthnitzer Straße, Fritz-Förster-Platz and Münchner Platz; the medical faculty can be found in the Johannstadt district. The faculty of forestry, formerly the Royal Saxon Academy of Forestry , resides in a forest area in the nearby town of Tharandt . TU Dresden has 14 faculties . Almost all faculties are located on the main campus south of the city center, except for

2418-400: The community. With the insight into the impossible concept of "unrestricted education", the concept of any "restriction" through educational measures also falls: "Limitation is not an invention of racial educational science, but an essential characteristic of the human being." In this writing from 1942, Baeumler explains what he understands by political pedagogy. In doing so, he states that

2480-614: The early 1930s, and characterized passages of it as " Hitler prophecy". He wrote a book entitled "Nietzsche, der Philosoph und Politiker" (Nietzsche, the Philosopher and Politician), which appeared in Reclams Universal-Bibliothek in 1931 and was widely read. In the book, Baeumler states: A theory of the state is not to be found in Nietzsche's work – but this work has opened all paths towards a new theory of

2542-674: The end of the 19th century the institute had developed into a university covering all disciplines. The school was named Technische Hochschule since 1919, it was given its present name, Technische Universität Dresden ( TU Dresden ) in 1961. Alfred Baeumler declared his Nazi views in 1932 and moved to Berlin in 1933. Nazi German Student Union organised a book burning at the Bismarck Column on Räcknitzhöhe in 1933. Victor Klemperer , Gustav Kafka , Richard Seyfert, Hans Gehrig were expelled or forced to resign. Richard von Mises , Paul Tillich , Harry Dember had to emigrate. Students of

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2604-495: The ensemble rehearses and performs only during the academic year. Each of these major ensembles performs an average of one to four times per semester. These performances often take place in Saxony but also occasionally internationally. The university is currently developing new strategies to make itself more independent from state funding and decision making. With regard to its ability to generate research money from industry partners,

2666-561: The entire curriculum. The university is a member of TU9 , a consortium of the nine leading German Institutes of Technology. The university is one of eleven German universities which succeeded in the Excellence Initiative in 2012, thus getting the title of a "University of Excellence". The TU Dresden succeeded in all three rounds of the German Universities Excellence Initiative (Future Concept, Graduate Schools, Clusters of Excellence). In 1828, with emerging industrialization,

2728-522: The folk dance group Folkloretanzensemble Thea-Maass which is dedicated to reviving regional styles of dance. The last two groups are the largest by far and these are the university choir and the university orchestra, both having student and non-student members of all ages. In 1997 a part of the university orchestra branched off into a chamber ensemble, becoming the TU-Kammerphilharmonie , and since it consists almost exclusively of students

2790-878: The form of greatness. It has the choice to exist as the anti-Roman power of Europe, or not to exist. … The German state of the future will not be a continuation of Bismarck's creation, but will be created out of the spirit of Nietzsche and the spirit of the Great War (from pp. 180–183. Italics in the original). Aside from using Nietzsche to legitimize National Socialism, Baeumler made other contributions to Nietzsche studies. He compiled an extensive volume, "Nietzsche in seinen Briefen und Berichten der Zeitgenossen" (Nietzsche in his Letters and Reports of Contemporaries) in 1932 for Alfred Kröner Verlag: Die Lebensgeschichte in Dokumenten (Nietzsche's Life Story in Documents); and he edited

2852-402: The harvest are only suitable for an intellectual content to reach "that degree of its formation in which it becomes teachable". "The National Socialist age, too, will produce the school that is spirit from its spirit, but we must be aware that we are at the beginning of the new education." Only after the new world view had undergone its "shaping" by artists and thinkers would it be handed over to

2914-695: The journal Weltanschauung und Schule, whose editor was Hans Karl Leistritz. His task in the Rosenberg Office, Science Department, was in particular "to work on the assessment of humanities scholars to be appointed to universities and to deal with the fundamental questions of pedagogy." For Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday in 1939, Baeumler wrote an article in the Festschrift Deutsche Wissenschaft. At that time, Ernst Krieck and Baeumler were considered "the two leading philosophers of National Socialism". From April 1942, Baeumler

2976-523: The nation. In the ARWU World Rankings for 2023, the university's position is in the 201–300 range globally, and between 10th and 19th place nationally. According to the 2019 QS Engineering and Technology Ranking the university ranked 113th worldwide and 5th in Germany. According to the 2019 Times Higher Education World University Rankings the university ranked 90th worldwide in engineering & technology. Moreover, According to Reuters ,

3038-554: The nearby small town of Tharandt . This was followed by the integration of the Friedrich List College of Transport ( Hochschule für Verkehrswesen ) the faculty of transport science, and the "Carl-Gustav Carus" Medical Academy ( Medizinische Akademie or MedAk for short), the medical faculty. Some faculties were newly founded: the faculties of Information Technology (1991), Law (1991), Education (1993) and Economics (1993). In 2009 TU Dresden, all Dresden institutes of

3100-508: The new knowledge into technological applications. The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft funds research in the area of electromagnetic flow influence in metallurgy, artificial crystal formation and electrochemistry. Other research is done on the Meissner effect and artificial fibers (textile). Silicon Saxony is the biggest cluster of the microelectronics industries in Europe. TU Dresden

3162-576: The ranked subjects: Business Administration, Business informatics, Engineering management, Natural Sciences, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Economics. As one of the first universities in Germany it has opened a branch in Hanoi , Vietnam offering a Master's course in mechatronics . It also maintains close partnerships with leading universities around the world, e.g. Boston University , Georgetown University , Harvard Medical School , Tongji University and POSTECH . Of

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3224-412: The real human being; the goal of education is the human being as such, as he has never existed and will never exist. The success of education results from the correct application of the means. Without a sound scientific knowledge of man, the theory of education had no basis. The opponents of the science of life and race in education would still be working with a historically outdated science of man. Based on

3286-534: The roughly 35,000 students, 45% are studying Engineering Sciences, 36.2% Humanities and Social Sciences, 12.5% Natural Sciences and Mathematics and 6.3% Medicine. About 59% (20,620) of the student body originates from Saxony , 18.9% (6,626) from other Eastern German federal states, 12.3% (4,306) from the Western German federal states and 9.8% (3,442) from other countries. Of the 20,620 students from Saxony, 12,351 (59.9%) are from Dresden , 2,934 (14.2%) from

3348-467: The school as teaching material. However, the school is excluded from the achievement of the worldview itself. Thus, Baeumler sees the school as the object and mediator of yesterday's shaped worldview. On the other hand, for him the school receives meaning and content from the national community and is thus no longer independent of life, but a piece of national and historical life, and it can no longer escape its laws. In this work from 1942, Baeumler justifies

3410-636: The state. … His attack on the "Reich" arises from the feeling of a world-historical task that awaits us. He wanted to hear nothing of the state as a moral organism in Hegel 's sense, he also wanted to hear nothing of Bismarck 's Christian Lesser Germany ("Kleindeutschland"). Before his eyes stood the task of our race: the task of being leader of Europe . … What would Europe be without the Germanic North? What would Europe be without Germany? A Roman colony . … Germany can only exist world-historically in

3472-453: The teacher training college, which at this time had taken on its final form according to a Führer decree, with "necessities of national existence" and "circumstances of the matter". In this way, he indirectly identifies pedagogy only as a product of Nazi ideology. For him, the concept of the "camp", where a "pedagogical atmosphere" reigns, is at the top of the list in the training of teachers. Without describing this NS concept in more detail, it

3534-531: The university was ranked 79th in the list of 'Most Innovative Universities Ranking 2019'. The Eduniversal Business Schools ranking ranks the university's Faculty of Business and Economics with 3 out of 5 palmes of excellence. According to the university ranking 2016 of the German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche the university ranked 7th in Germany in computer science and mechanical engineering and 6th in Germany in business informatics and engineering management. The university did not take first place in any of

3596-591: The university were tried in two 1959 political trials. The third reform of universities took place in 1968. The university has integrated the Dresden College of Engineering ( Ingenieurshochschule Dresden ) in 1986. Upon German reunification in 1990, the university had already integrated the College of Forestry ( Forstliche Hochschule ), formerly the Royal Saxony Academy of Forestry , in

3658-567: The university-affiliated language school TUDIAS-Sprachschule . International students interested in TU Dresden should visit the websites of the Akademisches Auslandsamt (International office) for more information. This office is responsible for handling international applications. At the end of 2011, 13.7% of beginning students came from abroad. A number of activities for international students facilitates their integration and help students to find new friends. Most notably

3720-420: Was a close friend, he had contributed to the first volumes of the journal Widerstand . He contributed to the Zeitschrift für nationalrevolutionäre Politik under the pseudonyms "Leopold Martin" and "Wolf Ecker". Baeumler was originally close to the Bündische and the Jungkonservativen, but then turned to National Socialism. In 1930 he was a co-founder of the folkish-antisemitic Kampfbund für deutsche Kultur. From

3782-450: Was head of the "Aufbauamt der Hohen Schule", a planned party university called the NSDAP's Hohe Schule. After 1945, Baeumler was interned for three years in camps in Hammelburg and Ludwigsburg . He was one of the few Nazi professors who did not return to a university post. One of Baeumler's more well-known texts is "Hellas and Germania", published in his 1937 book, "Studies in German Intellectual History". The basic thesis of this text

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3844-408: Was recognized as the first time that all four big post-gradual elite institutions declared campus co-operation with a university. TU Dresden is a campus university in most aspects. Some of its buildings are more than a hundred years old (such as the buildings around Muenchner Platz square). The architecture of these buildings is mostly influenced by the art nouveau style or the Bauhaus school (e.g.

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