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3 unusual facts about Braunschweig University of Technology


Braunschweig University of Technology

Current and former members of the TU Braunschweig include mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss, Nobel Laureate Klaus von Klitzing, SAP-CEO Professor Henning Kagermann, truck engineer and entrepreneur Heinrich Büssing of Büssing AG, as well as renowned architect Meinhard von Gerkan.

Free State of Brunswick

After a first attempt to obtain a tenure at the Braunschweig University of Technology had shamefully failed, Klagges in 1932 finally reached the appointment of Hitler as a public functionary at the Brunswick delegation to the Reichsrat in Berlin, which earned him to be a citizen of Brunswick, thus automatically of Germany.

Written Language and Literacy

The editor-in-chief is Martin Neef (Braunschweig University of Technology) It is abstracted and indexed by European Reference Index for the Humanities, Linguistic Bibliography/Bibliographie Linguistique, MLA Bibliography, and Scopus.


Adolph Henke

Following studies at the Collegium Carolinum in Braunschweig, he continued his education at the University of Helmstedt, where one of his instructors was chemist Lorenz von Crell (1744-1816).

Heinrich Philipp Konrad Henke

During his tenure at Helmstedt, he was appointed abbot of Michaelstein Abbey (1786) and vice-president of the Carolinum in Braunschweig (1803).


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