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