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:
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August Horch, Engineer and entrepreneur in car manufacture
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Friedrich Opel, Engineer and entrepreneur in car manufacture
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Jörgen Skafte Rasmussen, Engineer and entrepreneur in motorbike manufacture
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Bernhard Schmidt, Astrooptican
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Walter Bruch, Engineer, inventor of the PAL- System for color TV
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Gerhard Neumann, Engineer in aircraft construction, Vice-president of "General Electric"
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Hans Bahlsen, Engineer and entrepreneur in the food industrie
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Kurt A. Körber, Engineer and entrepreneur in mechanical engineering, patron of the arts
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Ernst Sachs, Engineer and entrepreneur in electronic industry, inventor of the electrical soldering iron