Famous graduates

During the last 130years more than 70000 students graduated from the university. A few of them became very successful engineers and entrepreneurs. We are proud that the following personalities studied in Mittweida:

  • August Horch, Engineer and entrepreneur in car manufacture

  • Friedrich Opel, Engineer and entrepreneur in car manufacture

  • Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen, Engineer and entrepreneur in motorbike  manufacture

  • Bernhard Schmidt, Astrooptican

  • Walter Bruch, Engineer, inventor of the PAL- System for color TV

  • Gerhard Neumann, Engineer in aircraft construction, Vice-president of "General Electric"

  • Hans Bahlsen, Engineer and entrepreneur in the food industrie

  • Kurt A. Körber, Engineer and entrepreneur in mechanical engineering, patron of the arts

  • Ernst Sachs, Engineer and entrepreneur in  electronic industry, inventor of the electrical soldering iron