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It was founded on 28 March 1919 by combining the previous General Lecture System (Allgemeines Vorlesungswesen), the Hamburg Colonial Institute (Hamburgisches Kolonialinstitut), and the Academic College (Akademisches Gymnasium).
- The First Democratic Foundation of A German University
- Roots in The Early Seventeenth Century
- Rise in The Weimar Republic, Downfall Under National Socialism
- After Re-Opening in 1945: Growth and Reforms
- An Urban University
- Since 2019: Universität Hamburg—University of Excellence
- The University Museum
Universität Hamburg celebrated its one hundredth anniversary in 2019. One century ago, it was born of the spirit of democracy that swept Germany as the Weimar Republic was founded. On 28 March 1919, the new Hamburg Parliament passed a resolution to establish a university. It was the first parliament chosen by the citizens of Hamburg in a free and f...
The origins of the University date back 400 years to the Akademisches Gymnasium, which operated between 1613 and 1833. By 1895, a “general lecture series” had remained, which gave interested citizens of Hamburg an opportunity to further their knowledge with public lectures on a wide range of topics. The merchant Edmund Siemers donated a lecture bui...
The young university’s early days in the 1920s were marked by success. Thanks to its outstanding scholars, it soon rose to international fame during the era of the Weimar Republic: as shown by such luminaries as Ernst Cassirer (philosophy), Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy (law), Erwin Panofsky (art history), Otto Stern (physical chemistry), and Will...
The University closed after the fall of the “Third Reich”, but it had already re-opened by November 1945. The 4 faculties that had existed since 1919 (Law and Public Administration, Medicine, Philosophy, Natural Sciences) became 6 in 1954, as the Faculty of Protestant Theology was established, and the Faculty of Law and Public Administration was sp...
Following the expansion of the Von-Melle-Park Campus in the mid-1960s, the university quarter grew towards the Bundesstrasse, where the 22-floor Geomatikum was built in the 1970s. With its several campuses, the University is present across the entire Hamburg metropolitan area. This includes the central Von-Melle-Park campus, the climate and geoscie...
Universität Hamburg has achieved extraordinary success in the Excellence Strategy of the Federal and State Governments, a competition for top-level university research funding in Germany. As of 2019, the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG) funds 4 clusters of excellence: CUI: Advanced Imaging of Matter (photon and nano...
Established in 2019 to mark the one hundredth anniversary of Universität Hamburg, the University Museumtakes its visitors on a tour of the places, people, and processes that have shaped the University’s 100 years. Some of its stories from its 100 years of research, teaching, and shaping the minds of the past and present are well known, some less so...
Mar 28, 2018 · On 28 March 1919 and following prolonged discussion, Hamburg Parliament passed a preliminary act to found Hamburg University and a Volkshochschule—one of its first resolutions. This makes Universität Hamburg the first university in Germany to be founded on democratic principles.
- Ellen Schonter
The University of Hamburg is one of Germany's youngest universities, having been founded in 1919. The main campus is located in the central district of Rotherbaum, with another 180 affiliated institutes and research centres scattered around the city.
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The Universität Hamburg, founded in 1919, is one of the largest in Germany, with some 46,000 students and faculties covering virtually every discipline except certain technological subjects. A second university, the Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, began classes in 1982.
Opened in 1919, Universität Hamburg was the first democratically founded university in Germany. Nobel Prize winners such as physicist Klaus Hasselmann in 2021, Otto Stern, Wolfgang Pauli, and Isidor Rabi were active at the University.
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Founded in 1919 Universität Hamburg is comparatively young. Its historical roots, however, date back to the 17th century. For more information, please visit our pages on University history .
