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