Hochschule Mittweida

The Hochschule Mittweida (Hochschule Mittweida) is a public university of applied science located in Mittweida, Germany, founded in 1867.

History
The University of Applied Sciences Mittweida is the second-largest public university of applied sciences in Saxony. It has had almost 80,000 alumni from almost 40 countries worldwide. Founded in 1867 as Technicum, the university first served the education of machine-building engineers, and it was one of the largest private schools in Germany at the turn of the century. After the takeover by the National Socialists, the Technicum lost its status as a private school, and in 1935 became the Engineering School Mittweida (Ingenieurschule Mittweida). In the 1960s, due to the success of the electrotechnical training program, the school became the Engineering College Mittweida. In 1980, it received the right to award the academic degree of doctor engineer. In 1992, after reunification, the college received a new start as a university of applied sciences.

Famous graduates

 * August Arnold (1898-1983), co-founder of ARRI, developer of the first single-lens reflex camera
 * Rento Hofstede Crull (1863-1938), Dutch electrical pioneer who first studied at Mittweida and then at the Hannover Technische Hochschule (now Leibniz University Hannover) in the 1880s, came first to the United States in the 1890s to work for Elihu Thomson and Thomas Alva Edison, then briefly left for Moscow to establish its first power station, and thereafter came back to the Netherlands to create its power grid and several companies, among them the Heemaf which was responsible for the invention of the first no brake motor in 1921; he perfected the process for making the manufacturing of rayon viable (See AkzoNobel and the American Enka Company).
 * August Horch (1868–1951), the father of the German automotive giant Audi, studied at the Technicum from 1888-1891. Horch developed the first six-cylinder engine in 1907. The designation Audi is the Latin translation of the name Horch (having to do with hearing).
 * Walter Bruch (1908–1990) studied from 1928-1931 in Mittweida, before he invented the PAL color television system. The PAL system is in about 60 countries, the most widespread colour television system worldwide, aside from NTSC and SECAM.
 * Gerhard Neumann (1917–1997) studied from 1936-1938 in Mittweida. Hired as a testing engineer at General Electric, he developed the J-79 jet engine and led the company's aircraft engine division (which today is called GE Aviation) as vice president for about 16 years. He received numerous awards, e.g. the Collier Trophy, awarded by the admission to the National Aviation Hall of Fame of the US.