Technische Universität Dresden

On May 1, 1828, the Royal Technical Institute in Dresden was founded to train skilled workers in technical fields such as mechanics , mechanical engineering , and shipbuilding in response to increasing industrialization . The founding director was Wilhelm Gotthelf Lohrmann , who established the institute in the Brühl Garden Pavilion on the Brühl Terrace . The building contained a lecture hall and two drawing rooms; in its first year, 161 students attended the Technical Institute, including nine in the first department. Among the eleven teachers who taught from 1828 onward were, in addition to founding director Lohrmann, Heinrich Ficcinus (physics, chemistry, technology) and Rudolf Sigismund Blochmann (mechanics). 

One of the key figures in the early years was Johann Andreas Schubert , who, at the age of 20, initially taught accounting and, as a second teacher, mathematics at the newly founded school. In 1832, he was appointed professor at both the neighboring building school of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Technical Educational Institute. Schubert can be described as a universal genius of engineering: among other things, he designed steamships, the Saxonia (one of the first steam locomotives in Germany), and the Göltzschtal Bridge . He was also active as an entrepreneur from an early age, briefly served as acting director of the Technical Educational Institute in 1849/50, and headed its civil engineering department from 1851.